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一 | Vincent Kennedy McMahon, the face most associated with American professional wrestling and who was until recently the CEO and Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), agreed to pay more than $12 million over 16 years to four different women who worked for or were contracted by WWE in an attempt to quiet allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.,That number includes the $3 million McMahon is said to have paid a former paralegal in late 2021 following a sexual relationship between the two. That incident led the WWE Board of Directors to investigate McMahon, who then stepped aside from his position as CEO and Chairman of the Board while his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, took over as interim CEO. That investigation was first reported on by the Wall Street Journal on June 17.,These new allegations, also revealed by the Wall Street Journal, include a former wrestler who alleged that Vince McMahon coerced her into giving him oral sex. After she refused further advances, she alleged that she was put in a less prominent position on the show and WWE then declined to renew her contract when it came up in 2005. In 2018, the wrestler and her lawyer approached McMahon and reached a $7.5 million settlement in exchange for her silence.,In the mid-2000s, McMahon was, as he is now, the head of creative in WWE and had the final say on how much TV and in-ring time wrestlers would receive. He would have also decided when she won or lost matches, essentially being in control of her career trajectory.,In another case, a WWE contractor had nude photos of McMahon that she alleged were sent unsolicited to her by the billionaire wrestling promoter. She also alleged, per people familiar with the situation, that he sexually harassed her on the job. According to the Journal, McMahon paid her $1 million to sign a non-disclosure agreement.,There is also a 2006 non-disclosure agreement with a $1 million payout to a former manager. She worked at the company for over a decade before McMahon initiated a sexual relationship, according to people familiar with the deal who spoke to the Journal.,It was previously reported that the WWE Board of Directors was investigating the case with the paralegal. Now, the Journal reports the case with the former wrestler is also being investigated by the board, along with allegations that former head of talent relations John Laurinaitis had a sexual relationship with the same paralegal McMahon did. It is not known if the other NDAs are being investigated.,The board is also reportedly investigating a 2012 $1.5 million nondisclosure agreement with Laurinaitis and an employee with whom he allegedly had a sexual relationship. The employee alleged she was demoted after ending the relationship.,Laurinaitis was the WWE head of talent relations until he was forced to step down in 2012, around the same time the 2012 NDA was made with the former employee. Laurinaitis was reinstated to that role in 2021 but was placed on administrative leave after the paralegal investigation came to light.,The initial report cited an anonymous email sent to the WWE board of directors that revealed the NDA between McMahon and the paralegal. It also alleged that McMahon asked the board to give her a raise after they began a sexual relationship. Later, she was transferred from the legal department to a role in talent relations under Laurinaitis, who she also allegedly had a sexual relationship with. The email claimed that McMahon gave the paralegal to Laurinaitis “like a toy.”,In a press release after the investigation first became public knowledge, McMahon said that he would “do everything possible to support” the investigation and stressed that no money from WWE went to pay for the NDA.,While the allegations are undoubtedly a bombshell, it may be difficult for the board of directors to remove McMahon if he does not step down voluntarily. Vince McMahon owns the vast majority of Class A shares, with the remaining Class A shares belonging to his family members or trusts in his family members’ names. Class A shares have ten times the voting power of the Class B shares given to investors not related to the McMahon family, so the vast majority of the voting power rests with McMahon himself.,The billionaire wrestling promoter has remained defiant in the face of the allegations. While he stepped down from his CEO and Chairman of the Board roles “temporarily,” he has remained in control of WWE’s creative direction. Additionally, just hours after the first Wall Street Journal report came out, WWE announced that McMahon would be appearing on that night’s Smackdown on Fox. He did not address the investigation and instead welcomed the crowd to the show. Critics and even some of WWE’s talent called it a brazen attempt to boost ratings off of the news of the scandal. Smackdown’s ratings for that episode jumped 19.6% from the week before.,Fightful Select has reported that talent backstage at that show heard McMahon say “F*** ‘em” after his appearance, apparently in defiance of the allegations.,This is not the first time McMahon has faced sexual misconduct allegations. In 2006, a tanning salon employee told police that McMahon groped her, showed her nude images of himself, and tried to kiss her unsolicited. Police declined to press charges at the time, citing a lack of independent evidence.,While WWE has not yet publicly responded to the latest Wall Street Journal report, PWInsider has obtained a copy of an internal memo sent to employees of WWE.,“The Wall Street Journal has published a second story with expanded details on its initial WWE report last month. We want to reiterate that we and our Board of Directors take these allegations seriously.,We’ve been cooperating fully with the investigation led by our Board of Directors and will continue to do so until its conclusion. Please note that upon its conclusion, WWE leadership will make itself available to answer any questions you may have.,Thank you.”。
美国宇航局创新先进概念（NIAC）计划已为今年的第一阶段资助选出了 18 个项目，这些项目将共同分享总计 320 万美元（IT之家注：现汇率约合 2,157.8 万元人民币）的开发资金。NIAC 旨在推动 NASA 可在未来太空任务中使用的技术突破。根据当地时间 7 月 29 日公布的获奖名单，今年的奖项包括一系列 NASA 认为具有“变革潜力”的任务概念和研究提案。其中包括加固航天器以探索并承受金星恶劣条件的想法、放射性同位素加热的月球宇航服，以及利用太空尘埃部分遮挡太阳以减少太阳辐射的方案。
二 | 这些入选项目并非实际的 NASA 任务，而是 NASA 认为可能为“阿尔忒弥斯计划”中建立月球基地等项目做出贡献的技术样本。“要实现这一目标，需要的不仅仅是渐进式的技术进步。这意味着我们需要巨大的飞跃，”NASA 研究与技术任务理事会先进研究与技术部门主任格雷格 · 斯托弗在获奖公告中表示，“这些奖项正是世界需要 NASA 帮助培育的创新。”18 位获奖者每人将获得最高 17.5 万美元（现汇率约合 118 万元人民币），用于对其提案进行为期九个月的调研，以确定其可行性以及技术成熟化的后续步骤。
随着 NASA 长期月球居住计划的推进，能够天然屏蔽强烈太阳辐射的地下住所成为了居住空间的重要考量方向。
三 | NIAC 获奖创意之一包括来自得克萨斯州 Stone Aerospace 公司的吉利 · 埃洛提出的“月球地下探测器”（LUX）。LUX 将派遣悬停机器人绘制月球静海下方可能长达数英里的熔岩管地图。
四 | 这些无人机在月球迷宫深处无法接触阳光，每架都将通过一根超轻型光纤电缆与月球表面的着陆器或漫游车相连，后者用激光沿线路输送电力并为这位洞穴潜水探测器提供通信链路。
另一个 NIAC 获奖项目旨在绘制邻近恒星周围类地系外行星的大陆地图。如今，我们可以确定系外行星的大小和构成，但大规模辨别其物理特征此前尚未有人尝试。来自纽约布鲁克海文科学协会的保罗 · 斯坦库斯提议设计一种新型“零差干涉仪”，通过一种名为“动态分层零差”的技术，利用不同望远镜的数据抵消恒星的光芒。他的想法是将一对相距约 60 英里（100 公里）的“零差”太空望远镜的数据合并，以实现足够高的分辨率，探测比其恒星暗淡 100 亿倍的系外行星表面特征的对比度。另一个获奖概念来自迈克尔 · 鲁宾斯坦和西北大学。他们提议向这颗气态巨行星的轨道抛掷数千颗“飞秒卫星”（重量不足 100 克的微型卫星探测器），以探索土星环。根据 NASA 网站上的项目页面，“使用卡西尼号这样的单一旗舰任务对土星环进行原位勘测，会因粒子碰撞而带来无法接受的失败风险。”相反，飞秒卫星舰队提案建议将 1 万艘航天器送入土星环，并深知其中相当一部分可能会损毁。“拟议任务的分布式特性意味着它可以承受可能摧毁星座中许多飞秒卫星的风险，从而使对土星环的原位勘测成为可能。”“每一项创新、每一次技术飞跃，都始于一颗想法的种子，”NIAC 代理项目执行官菲利普 · 威廉姆斯在 NASA 的声明中表示，“NIAC 计划让 NASA 得以培育这些种子，并确定是否有东西可以成长起来，造福未来的太空任务和我们国家的航空航天经济。”
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