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Constructing a new software design — getty

Even before the pandemic reshaped the way we work, a major skills gap plagued the labor market. Technological innovation has proceeded at an incredible pace, and traditional educational institutions haven’t been able to keep up. The skyrocketing price of higher education has made learning inaccessible to a greater swath of the population. As a result, there’s a growing chasm between the skills employees and job seekers have and those that companies are hiring for, with low-income groups hit the hardest. In fact, the number of jobs for the top 25% of earners is now higher than it was before the pandemic (subscription required), while for the bottom quarter — especially in low-wage service sector work — jobs are down by more than 20%.

The Skills Gap Is Widening

Over the past six months, the move to remote

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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who killed net neutrality, will step down after Trump term ends

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Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC, will finish up in January.

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Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will step down Jan. 20, the agency said in a release Monday. He was appointed by President Donald Trump, who took office in 2017, and will leave on the day Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, is inaugurated.

“It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve at the Federal Communications Commission, including as chairman of the FCC over the past four years,” Pai said in the release. “I am grateful to President Trump for giving me the opportunity to lead the agency in 2017, to President Obama for appointing me as a Commissioner in 2012, and to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and the Senate for twice confirming me. To be the first Asian American to chair the FCC has been a particular privilege. As I often say: only in

modern technology

Chinese New Energy Vehicle Companies Begin to Step up Efforts to Occupy the Fuel Market Share

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GUANGZHOU, CHINA / ACCESSWIRE / November 27, 2020 / In recent years, the new energy vehicle sector has been developing at a fast clip worldwide. Except for the Nordic countries and the U.S. that took the lead in proposing de-fueling, there is no denying that China is playing an indispensable role in such a trend and has become the focus. As the result of the policy support from the Chinese government, new energy vehicles see a momentum of rapid growth in China, and has triggered the country to become the world’s largest market. Many Chinese local companies are ambitiously planning to tap the enormous “gold mine”.

Interestingly, as technology advances and costs fall, Chinese carmakers seem to adopt creative market expansion strategies: they not only focus on the competition in new

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Broke your smartphone? ‘Right to repair’ rules just took another step forward

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‘Right to repair’ calls for more transparency around the lifespan of tech products and better availability of repair instructions.

istock-947282348 — Europe has taken a significant step towards introducing better device repair rules for consumers.

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The European Parliament has voted in favor of “right to repair” rules for Europe that would make it easier for consumers to repair their own devices, while also cracking down on practices used by manufacturers to shorten the lifespan of their products.

The European Commission announced plans for new “right to repair” rules covering smartphones, tablets and laptops in March 2021 as part of wider efforts to tackle e-waste and help Europe on its path to becoming climate-neutral by 2050.

The proposal seeks to make repairs more appealing and easier to access by consumers, either by extending guarantees from manufacturers, providing guarantees for replaced parts, or by providing better access to information on device

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SpaceX’s Saturday launch of Sentinel-6 is a first step toward leveling up climate studies

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Saturday’s SpaceX launch may be a small step for a company that is making increasingly regular trips into orbit, but the latest mission’s payload represents a giant step for climate studies here on Earth.

a plane flying in the sky: SpaceX's Saturday launch of Sentinel-6 is a first step toward leveling up climate studies

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SpaceX’s Saturday launch of Sentinel-6 is a first step toward leveling up climate studies

The launch itself was a success by all measures. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from a launchpad at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday morning, shortly after 9:00 a.m. PT. The weather was beautiful and the launch happened right on schedule, as you can see in the video below.

The first stage of the Falcon 9 separated a few minutes after launch. This particular SpaceX rocket is partially reusable, and so the first stage returned to the ground unharmed, with a controlled descent and a pitch-perfect landing that drew cheers from observers.

But again,

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The final trimming step — ScienceDaily

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Ribosomes synthesize all the proteins in cells. Studies mainly done on yeast have revealed much about how ribosomes are put together, but an Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team now reports that ribosome assembly in human cells requires factors that have no counterparts in simpler model organisms.

In every cell, hundreds of thousands of intricate molecular machines called ribosomes fabricate new proteins, extending each growing chain at a rate of a few amino acids per second. Not surprisingly therefore, the construction of these vital protein factories is itself a highly complex operation, in which more than 200 assembly factors are transiently involved. Mature ribosomes are made up of approximately 80 proteins and four ribosomal RNAs. But how these constituents are assembled in the correct order to yield a functional ribosome is still not fully understood. Moreover, most of our knowledge of the process comes from studies carried out on model organisms

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US takes first step toward future self-driving car regulations

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There will most definitely be regulations for self-driving cars in the future.

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We are long, long time away from widespread use of self-driving cars, though governments around the world are trying to get ahead of the game with regulations. In the US, any steps have been minimal at best, but now, it looks like the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is ready to take a real step forward.

On Thursday, the agency announced it’s now seeking public comment on “the potential development of a framework of principles to govern the safe behavior of automated driving systems.” To be clear, whatever the NHTSA has come up with so far is nowhere near final, but it wants the public to have its say on possible proposals to create future regulations.

These early proposals

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Rocket Lab recovers booster in major step toward reusability

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A Rocket Lab booster propelled 30 small satellites into orbit from New Zealand Thursday while its first stage parachuted to a Pacific Ocean splashdown, a key step toward perfecting systems that will enable spent stages to be plucked from mid-air by waiting helicopters.

Appropriately enough, the company’s 16th mission was nicknamed “Return to Sender.”

The 60-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Rocket Lab’s picturesque launch complex on New Zealand’s Māhia Peninsula at 9:20 p.m. EST (3:20 p.m. Friday local time) and quickly climbed away toward a 310-mile-high polar orbit.

A an Electron rocket climbs away Rocket Lab’s New Zealand launch complex Thursday on a flight to deploy 30 small satellites and to test technology the company is developing to enable first stage recovery and re-use.

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Two-and-a-half minutes after launch, the first stage’s nine Rutherford engines shut down and the booster fell away while the rocket’s second stage continued

modern technology

Sheriff Knight named CEO of First Step of Sarasota

[email protected]_84 November 17, 2020

SARASOTA – Even as a 23-year-old rookie with the Sarasota Police Department getting a street-level view of the burgeoning crack cocaine epidemic, at least one thing became immediately obvious to Tom Knight: locking up the buyers wasn’t going to solve anything.

“You’re not going to arrest your way out of addiction; you’re just filling up our jails with people who may have done nothing more wrong in life than getting addicted,” recalled Sarasota County’s top law enforcement official.

“Maybe they don’t have the right parents or loved ones around to get them help. Maybe they don’t have the money or the influence. But when they do get out, they’ll go right back and do it again.”

Thirty-three years later, the

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Crew-1 launch is next step in new era of human spaceflight

[email protected]_84 November 15, 2020

At 7:27 p.m. Eastern time tonight, SpaceX is scheduled to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On board the SpaceX spacecraft waiting for liftoff are three NASA astronauts, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover, as well as a Japanese astronaut, Soichi Noguchi.

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A mock-up of the Crew Dragon Capsule sits on the media center grounds at Kennedy Space Center. The SpaceX Crew-1 flight will carry Crew Dragon Commander Michael Hopkins, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Shannon Walker, all of NASA, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi to the space station for a six-month science mission at Kennedy Space Center.

A successful launch will mark another step in NASA’s plans to turn spaceflight duties over to private enterprise. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is the first privately owned and operated spacecraft

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‘For All Mankind’ patches depict space history changes in Apple TV+ series’ season 2

Coasts drown as coral reefs collapse under warming and acidification — ScienceDaily

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New study shows how ‘our’ RNA stably binds to artificial nucleic acids — ScienceDaily

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China turns on nuclear-powered ‘artificial sun’

FINEOS Corporation Lands Outstanding Achievement in International Growth Award at the Technology Ireland Industry Awards 2020

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Blackcurrants are favorable for glucose metabolism — ScienceDaily

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The Pandemic Widened The Skills Gap And The Tech Industry Must Step Up

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who killed net neutrality, will step down after Trump term ends

Broke your smartphone? ‘Right to repair’ rules just took another step forward

SpaceX’s Saturday launch of Sentinel-6 is a first step toward leveling up climate studies

The final trimming step — ScienceDaily

US takes first step toward future self-driving car regulations

Rocket Lab recovers booster in major step toward reusability

Sheriff Knight named CEO of First Step of Sarasota

Crew-1 launch is next step in new era of human spaceflight

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