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NASA’s Perseverance rover may be hogging the headlines, but its predecessor is also capturing new insights about Mars. Since August 2012, the Curiosity buggy has been studying whether the red planet could have once supported microbial life. To mark the rover’s ninth year on Mars, NASA has createda 360-degree tourof Curiosity’s current home on Mount Sharp. The 5-kilometer tallmountain lies within the 54-kilometer-wide basin of Mars’ Gale Crater.NASA believes the area could contain clues about how the planet dried up....

The 65th Annual Tony Awards was held this weekend and host Neil Patrick Harris did an absolutely fantastic job hosting. The opening number is getting tons of attention for its hilarious, ‘Broadway isn’t just for gays anymore’ theme but NPH deserves a ton of praise for just nailing the performance. Even Brooke Shields stumbling through a contributing bit couldn’t make this number any less awesome. If you thought the opening number couldn’t be topped then you’re wrong because this ‘dueling hosts’ bit with three-time Tony Award host Hugh Jackman is pretty amazing....

Don’t get me wrong. Python’s popularity is still backed by a rock-solid community of computer scientists, data scientists and AI specialists. But if you’ve ever been at a dinner table with these people, you also know how much they rant about the weaknesses of Python. From being slow to requiring excessive testing, to producing runtime errors despite prior testing — there’s enough to be pissed off about. Which is why more and more programmers are adopting other languages — the top players being Julia, Go, and Rust....

Sina Weibo, the popular microblogging platform from China, has just updated its iPhone app to support an English interface ahead of theWeibo website. Could this mean that Sina Weibo is preparing to go head to head against Twitter? It’s very surprising as this may actually be Sina’s first attempt to tap into non-Chinese users for its Weibo service. I gave the app a spin and found that despite having the main interface available in English, there are still some features and notifications that are limited to Chinese....

There’s a growing number of startup accelerators around the world, fromY Combinatorin Silicon Valley toTechStarsin Boulder andSeedCampbased out of London- All helping entrepreneurs to accelerate their ideas from conception to commercial business in a shorter time frame than normal. Most take a huge chunk of equity in return for a small amount of early stage seed funding, butSSE Labs, the new accelerator programe based out of AOL’s offices on Page Mill Road, Palo Alto works differently; SSE labs is built in compliance with Stanford Student Enterprise to help nurture the existing world class entrepreneurial nature of Standford students....