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A new device that can be swallowed like a pill can track vital signs such as breathing and heart rate from inside the body.

Left: Ben Pless Right: Traverso Lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

“This device can help diagnose and monitor many health conditions without requiring hospital visits, which can make healthcare more accessible and supportive for patients,” says Giovanni Traverso, the lead author of the study, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Mira Murati is to temporarily take up the reins at OpenAI following Sam Altman’s surprising departure.

After Sam Altman’s surprise sacking from OpenAI on Friday, the AI company has announced that Mira Murati will fill the gap as interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) until a replacement is found. A relative unknown outside of Silicon Valley, many interested in the artificial intelligence (AI) space are rightfully wondering who she is. Let’s find out what we know so far.

Who are you?

Mira Murati was born in Albania but moved to Vancouver, Canada when she was 16 years old under a scholarship at an international school. After graduating, she studied at Dartmouth College and completed a mechanical engineering degree. After completing her studies, Murati worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then at the French aerospace group Zodiac Aerospace.

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The company’s journey to make its modem has been long and frustrating.

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As per a Bloomberg report, the iPhone maker, which had planned to launch its chip by next year, will likely miss its target of shipping the component by the spring of 2025, people familiar with the matter said. The chip may debut at the end of 2025 or early 2026, the last year of Apple’s extended contract with Qualcomm.

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Scientists have built noise-canceling headphones that filter out specific types of sound in real-time — such as birds chirping or car horns blaring — thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm.

The system, which researchers at the University of Washington dub “semantic hearing,” streams all sounds captured by headphones to a smartphone, which cancels everything before letting wearers pick the specific types of audio they’d like to hear. They described the protoype in a paper published Oct. 29 in the journa IACM Digital Library.

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SpaceX Starship 25 and Super Heavy booster 9 launched to orbit on Nov. 18, 2023 from the Starbase facility in South Texas. Following the launch, the booster had a Rapid Unplanned Disassembly (RUD) shortly after separation.

Starship consists of a first-stage booster called Super Heavy and an upper-stage spacecraft known (a bit confusingly) as Starship. Both of these elements are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. SpaceX thinks the vehicle will make the settlement of Mars — a long-held dream of company founder and CEO Elon Musk — economically feasible in the not-too-distant future.

When fully stacked, Starship stands nearly 400 feet (122 meters) tall. It’s the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built.

Broadcast Courtesy: SpaceX

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