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New Zealand’s Wicked Spaceplane Approved for Suborbital Test Flights
Dawn Aerospace CEO Stefan Powell announced today that the company’s Mk-II Aurora spaceplane has received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand for rocket-powered flight. The company is now ready to test the vehicle’s rocket engines with flights beginning next month.
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FAA Deploys New Software to Prevent Taxiing Plane Collisions
The Federal Aviation Administration has fitted dozens of airports nationwide with new software to prevent, what it calls, “wrong-surface landings,” where inbound planes crash into aircrafts waiting on taxiways.
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Amazon Employees Ask Their Boss not to Make Them Come Back to the Office 3 Days a Week
Amazon employees are petitioning CEO Andy Jassy to cancel his return-to-office mandate and calling out his about-face on remote work. In a petition to Jassy sent late Tuesday, Amazon workers decried that their trust in the company’s leaders had been “shattered.”
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Zuckerberg’s ‘Year of Efficiency’ Could Mean More Layoffs After Dismal Performance Reviews
Meta may be gearing up for yet another round of layoffs as employees report receiving lower-than-average performance reviews this week. Tech industry layoffs have become the norm in recent months, with Meta having laid off 11,000 employees in November, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed 2023 would be the “year of efficiency.”