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How an L.A. community of wildfire survivors is getting insurance to pay for contamination testing

Fast Company Tech

But they struggled to convince their insurers to test their properties to ensure it was safe to return. She said her insurance adjuster said USAA would pay for contamination testing, but after choosing a company and coming back with the results, her claim was rejected. “Every single item is a battle,” said Maccalla.

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Common-Sense Governance

NonProfit PRO

Here are a number of common sense and tested suggestions that may reduce at least some of the complications that can affect achieving nonprofit board success. While nonprofit board management is complicated, some of the complications can be addressed through basic common sense.

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NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk's Starship, Even Though It's Never Launched Without Exploding

Futurism

NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission. And not just for NASA's science operations the agency can also "provide launch services to other federal government agencies" under its NLS II contracts.

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Face masks are breaking facial recognition algorithms, says new government study

The Verge

Later this summer, we plan to test the accuracy of algorithms that were intentionally developed with masked faces in mind.”. Facial recognition algorithms such as those tested by NIST work by measuring the distances between features in a target’s face. This matches reports we’ve heard from inside government. Hayes/NIST.

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Rocket Falls in Icy Wasteland, Explodes in Epic Fireball

Futurism

With this test flight, we were able to successfully gather valuable data and experience for future missions," the company tweeted. Isar Aerospace met its set goals: After ignition of its first stage, Spectrum successfully lifted off," the company wrote in a statement , "for its first test flight lasting approximately 30 seconds.

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Tesla turns to Texas to test its autonomous “Cybercab”

Ars Technica

During the early days of its autonomous vehicle (AV) ambitions, Tesla did its testing in California, like most of the rest of the industry. Among the requirements has been the need to report test mileage and disengagements , reports that revealed that Tesla's testing has in fact been extremely limited within that state's borders since 2016.

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Apple's Find My has finally launched in South Korea

Engadget

The company never explicitly stated why it limited access to Find My in South Korea, but it appeared to be related to local laws that could have allowed the government access to the location data. The service first appeared during a beta test of iOS 18.4, but the official software update makes it available to everyone in the country.