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The Race for the Next-Gen Space Station

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ISS Set the Standard The International Space Station—originally expected to be completed by 1994 for $8 billion—was completed in 2011 for more than $100 billion. When the time comes, Axiom says, it would detach its components and reconfigure them with other parts for a new station. “If It has made more than 123,000 orbits in 21 years.

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Tao Images/Alamy. The classic example of path dependence is the establishment of the conventional QWERTY keyboard standard on typewriters in the late 19th century and computers thereafter. military bases.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Looking deeply into the human voice Chad Hagen Singh suggests that speech analysis alone can be used to generate a shockingly detailed profile of an unknown speaker. “If On camera, the man claimed he’d taken part in the violence and had firebombed a drugstore. National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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