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Nov 14, 2023

AI Pin Wants To Be A Star Trek Communicator And Kill Smartphones

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, wearables

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We’re getting one step closer to wearable Star Trek technology in the form of a new device called the “Ai Pin.” (via Humane). The AI Pin was created by a startup company called Humane, which is primarily led by ex-Apple employees who want to transform how we interact with our devices.

Nov 14, 2023

European Space Agency signs on to upcoming ‘Starlab’ space station

Posted by in category: space

The European Space Agency, Airbus, and Voyager Space have signed an agreement for the Starlab commercial space station launching in 2027.

Nov 14, 2023

AI’s most doomsaying godfather sure would like you to believe his invention is godlike

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Three AI godfathers have been arguing about what’s next for the tech they created. One of them, Geoffrey Hinton, has been pondering whether the tech should.

Nov 14, 2023

Apple gets 36% of Google search revenue from Safari, Alphabet witness says

Posted by in category: futurism

Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari under the terms of the two companies’ search default agreement, an Alphabet witness said.

Nov 14, 2023

500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media. Guess how that went

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Scientists built a fake Twitter and filled it with 500 bots. Then they sat back and watched.

Nov 14, 2023

Barbara Corcoran: I almost rejected my best hire because she was introverted—how she changed my mind

Posted by in category: business

Barbara Corcoran almost missed out on “the best hire” she ever made — all because the prospective employee seemed too introverted.

“When I started my business [in 1973], I needed people to join my real estate company,” the millionaire investor and real estate entrepreneur said in a recent TikTok video. “But I had little to offer, and good people were really hard to get.”

In walked Esther Kaplan, who would eventually become Corcoran’s business partner and longtime president of The Corcoran Group. But at the time, Kaplan didn’t seem like the right fit for the sales position she’d applied for, Corcoran said.

Nov 14, 2023

Princeton astrophysicist helps find record-smashing black hole born in the universe’s infancy

Posted by in categories: cosmology, physics

An international team of astrophysicists including Princeton’s Andy Goulding has discovered the most distant supermassive black hole ever found, using two NASA space telescopes: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The black hole, which is an estimated 10 to 100 million times more massive than our sun, is 13.2 billion light-years away in the galaxy UHZ-1, which means the telescopes are peering back in time to when the universe was “extremely young,” Goulding said — only about 450 million years old.

“This is one of the most dramatic discoveries to come out of the James Webb Space Telescope” and the discovery of the most distant growing supermassive black hole known, said Michael Strauss, professor and chair of astrophysical sciences at Princeton, who discussed the findings with the researchers but was not part of the research team. “Indeed, it completely smashes the old record.”

Nov 14, 2023

Uncrewed Submarine Will Launch, Recover Drone That Can Swim, Fly

Posted by in category: drones

Uncrewed submarines loaded with ‘multi-domain’ drones could offer a new dimension for hunting for enemy naval forces and mines, and more.

Nov 14, 2023

Tesla signs deal with 2nd gas station operator to sell its Supercharger directly

Posted by in category: futurism

Tesla has signed a deal with the EG Group, a massive gas station and convenience store operator, to sell its Supercharger hardware to be deployed as an EG-branded product.

It’s the second of such deals that Tesla has made in just a few weeks.

Last month, Tesla surprised many when it announced it reached a deal with BP to sell them $100 million worth of Supercharger hardware to be deployed at BP gas stations across the US under the BP brand.

Nov 14, 2023

Meta Has an AI That Can Read Your Mind and Draw Your Thoughts

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Meta is developing brain-scanning technology that can convert brain activity into vivid imagery in miliseconds.