An image posted on a popular video game forum today is providing what appears to be the first glimpse of a revamped Xbox One console, less than 24 hours...
Leak reveals white ‘Xbox One S’ in advance of Microsoft’s E3 briefing
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An irradiated brown-dwarf companion to an accreting white dwarf
Interacting compact binary systems provide a natural laboratory in which to study irradiated substellar objects. As the mass-losing secondary (donor) in these systems makes a transition from the stellar to the substellar regime, it is also irradiated by the primary (compact accretor). The internal and external energy fluxes are both expected to be comparable in these objects, providing access to an unexplored irradiation regime....
University of Washington will host first-ever White House workshop on artificial intelligence
Between the University of Washington, a thriving tech community, and strong research institutions,...
Gates Foundation commits $100M to White House’s National Microbiome Initiative
President Obama calls out Snapchat and LinkedIn during final White House correspondents’ dinner
Amid zingers directed at everyone from Donald Trump to himself, President Barack Obama briefly mentioned two tech giants during his final White House correspondents’ dinner Saturday evening.
The 40-minute monologue, which you can watch here, was certainly funny — well, maybe depending on your political views —...
White woman sues sperm bank—again—after getting black man’s sperm
Jennifer Cramblett with her daughter Payton in 2014. (credit: Family via Georgia Newsday)
An Ohio woman has sued a sperm bank that mistakenly gave her sperm from an African-American donor.
Plaintiff Jennifer Cramblett, who is white, gave birth to her mixed-race daughter Payton three years ago. In her lawsuit (PDF), she says that the sperm bank's mix-up led to "an unplanned transracial parent-child...
Seattle girls who sent a balloon to the edge of space are heading to the White House
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and now the White House are taking notice of two Seattle elementary school girls.
In September, intrepid innovators Rebecca and Kimberly Yeung successfully sent...
White House invites Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to President Obama’s final State of the Union
If you plan to watch President Barack Obama deliver his final State of the Union address on Tuesday, be sure to look for Satya Nadella. The Microsoft CEO will be sitting in the guest box of First Lady Michelle...
A closer look at Microsoft’s U.S. diversity: 46% white males, 481 fewer women than 2014
Microsoft made headlines on Monday afternoon with updated workforce statistics, but a federal report the company quietly published at the same time sheds even more light on the diversity within its ranks. The data shows that 45.9 percent of the company’s U.S. workers are white males, down slightly from 46.5 percent last year. It also shows that of the highest ranking...