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2021-04-20 08:01:06 ​​Facebook is reversing its course and is saying its employees will be able to work from home post-pandemic.

Facebook previously said employees may continue working remotely up until June 2021. But Brynn Harrington, vice president of Facebook’s HR team, told the BBC that some employees have been “really thriving” at home and want to continue working remotely.

According to a Bloomberg report, Facebook is planning on reopening its Silicon Valley offices in May with a max capacity of 10%. Workers choosing to work in the office will be required to wear face masks, be socially distant and may get tested weekly.

In May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he expected 50% of the company’s workforce to be entirely remote within the next decade. Open / Comment

2021-04-17 09:46:33 ​​Once upon time, becoming an astronaut was a two-year process reserved for military test pilots with college degrees and 1,500 hours of flying time. But the idea of commercial space travel always promised that one day, you wouldn’t have to be a professional astronaut to go to space. That day is almost here: the next few years will see a series of missions for non-astronauts. All these new opportunities will make us rethink what astronaut training means. And it means almost anyone will be able to go to space, if you’re rich enough. Open / Comment

2021-04-15 18:00:26 ​​Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under US employment law... Open / Comment

2021-04-15 13:00:33 ​​In 2023, NASA will launch VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover), which will trek across the surface of the moon and hunt for water ice that could one day be used to make rocket fuel. The rover will be armed with the best instruments and tools that NASA can come up with. But while much of VIPER is one of a kind, custom-made for the mission, much of the software that it’s running is open-source, meaning it’s available for use, modification, and distribution by anyone for any purpose. If the mission is successful, it may be an inflection point that causes the space industry to think differently about how it develops and operates robots. Open / Comment

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2021-04-13 18:00:33 ​​Starting this week, some Domino’s customers in Houston can have a pizza delivered without ever interacting with a human. The pizza delivery giant said Monday it has partnered with autonomous delivery vehicle startup Nuro to allow select customers to have their pizzas dropped at their door via Nuro’s R2 robot. Open / Comment

2021-04-10 18:00:31 ​​Rocket Lab is launching its 20th rocket in May – and it plans to get this one back. This is the rocket maker's second recovery attempt, and here's what it says about the process: "All we have to do is orient Electron to a precise angle, slow it down from 8x the speed of sound as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, withstand 2,400°C temperatures, deploy a parachute, locate and fish the rocket out of the ocean and bring it back to our factory. Easy." Open / Comment

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2021-04-08 18:01:06 ​​Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets. Open / Comment