The Download: what’s next for the moon, and facial recognition’s stalemate

It’s been greater than 50 years since people final walked on the moon. However beginning this yr, an array of missions from non-public corporations and nationwide house businesses plan to take us again, sending every thing from small robotic probes to full-fledged human landers.

The final word purpose? Getting people dwelling and dealing on the moon, after which utilizing it as a manner station for doable later missions into deep house.

From non-public missions to hunt for water ice to much-needed updates to worldwide lunar legal guidelines, right here’s what’s subsequent for the moon. Learn the complete story.

—Jonathan O’Callaghan

Jonathan’s piece is a part of our What’s Subsequent sequence, which takes a glance throughout industries, traits, and applied sciences to provide you a primary take a look at the long run. You possibly can try the remainder of the sequence right here.

How face recognition guidelines within the US obtained caught in political gridlock

The US state of Massachusetts has grow to be a hotbed of debate over police use of face recognition. Lawmakers there are contemplating a invoice that might characterize a breakthrough on the problem and will set a brand new tone of compromise for the remainder of the nation.

Tate Ryan-Mosley, our senior tech coverage reporter, reported final week on how the governance of facial recognition is being held up in a novel sort of political stasis. That’s as a result of the battle between ‘abolish face recognition’ and ‘do not regulate it in any respect’ has led to an absence of motion. Compromises are the one manner ahead. Learn the complete story.