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The pushback against predictive policing is underway At the global level, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has warned [PDF] how predictive policing systems that rely on historical data "can easily produce discriminatory outcomes". … [Read more...] about Predictive policing is just racist 21st century cyberphrenology

"Most people don't know that most of our expensive claims come from broken hoses from under your sink. After a few years it explodes because it gives up and there's water everywhere. We have looked at programs where we can proactively engage customers to change out those hoses so we can avoid claims," he said. … [Read more...] about Project purple: IAG moves away from being an analogue business

The Ax-1 mission will have to be approved by the Multilateral Crew Operations Panel, the space station’s managing body of partner countries that includes the US, Russia, Canada, Japan, and others. That approval process kicked off today, López-Alegría said. “I don’t think that there’s any doubt that the background and qualifications of the crew are more than adequate to be accepted by the MCOP, so I feel good about that,” he added. … [Read more...] about Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS

While SpaceX’s mission — two tourists are going, and obviously, NASA has already pioneered the journey. But the maneuvers made by Apollo 8 help demonstrate the technical complexity of such a mission, even as this new mission will likely be carried out autonomously, simply carrying the passengers along for the ride. The agency was able to test out several important milestones in 1968: conducting critical burns and orbital injections to bring the spacecraft into a new orbit and out again, while also producing images that would inspire the world over. The mission in 2018 could beam back its own version of Earthrise — right as President Donald Trump’s government attempts to dismantle environmental protections. A half century after that flight to the Moon, SpaceX could very well create its own mark in the history books, maybe in ways we don’t yet foresee. … [Read more...] about What we can learn about SpaceX’s trip to the Moon from the Apollo 8 mission

That opens up possibilities that go far beyond a flight around the Moon. The recently delayed Mars project is a perfect example. While it’s not without faults, the project is far more ambitious in scope than anything that could be accomplished by piggybacking on government rockets. It requires new ships, new crews, and a sustained commitment to supplying them. There are dozens of such projects — many of which are developed and debated within NASA — but and a private company trying to execute them is already changing the dynamic. What does a space program look like without the political constraints of government? We simply don’t know. … [Read more...] about SpaceX’s Moon flight will be the first truly private ticket to space