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Next week, five states’ IDs will stop working in federal facilities

Lead Transportation Security Officer (TSO) Katrina Callin reviews the identification of a passenger at one of the checkpoints at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). (credit: Transportation Security Administration)

Starting next week, certain state ID cards will no longer be accepted at federal facilities. Five states, along with the territory of American Samoa, aren't compliant with the 2005...

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2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year

Our current understanding of Alphabet's layout. (credit: Ron Amadeo)

It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at least) inside of Google's sprawling empire.

Though from now on, perhaps we should say, "Every ongoing project inside of Alphabet's sprawling...

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NASA has begun working on its next great space observatory

An illustration of what WFIRST will look like once launched. (credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)

Thanks to an infusion of Congressional funding, NASA has accelerated development of a telescope that could answer some of the most fundamental questions about both the universe and nearby exoplanets. At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Monday,...

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Profile: Napster co-founder, startup CEO Jordan Ritter is working on a recipe for innovation
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Jordan Ritter got his first taste of entrepreneurship in 1999, when he was sharing a Silicon Valley apartment with startup superstars Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker at the San Mateo Marriott Residence Inn. There, he was part of the founding team of Napster, the controversial file-sharing company that fundamentally...
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