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EU Parliament votes new measures for AI factories, ECJ rules against law on fingerprints in national IDs – Euractiv
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“We have the infrastructure covered. We also need to invest in training.”
– said Portuguese member of the European People’s Party (EPP) Maria da Graça Carvalho, and rapporteur on the amendments to the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, on Wednesday.
Story of the week: On Wednesday, the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy voted to
Readers discuss meteorite identification, fly factories and more
Magnetic muck-ups
A study of fragments from a Martian meteorite shows that the common practice of using magnets to identify meteorites can overwrite records of magnetic fields stored within the space rocks, Katherine Kornei reported in “Searching for meteorites? Ditch the magnets” (SN: 6/3/23, p. 5).
Reader C. R. Prahl asked how scientists can know precisely a meteorite’s source.
Scientists can determine a meteorite’s origins by looking at the space rock’s chemical makeup, Kornei says. As rocks form,
The VW Bus Took the Sixties on the Road. Now It’s Getting a Twenty-first-Century Makeover
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In 1976, at the tail end of the Ford Administration, hippies no longer hip, Sue Vargo and Molly Mead decided that they wanted to drive to the Florida Keys in a Volkswagen bus. They were best friends, in their twenties, living in a women-only commune in Massachusetts: muddy boots, acoustic guitars, mercurial vegetarians. They bought a beat-up VW bus, circa 1967, red and white, with a split