Report: U.S. has work to do to compete with China in space in the long run

Last week, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the Space Force, and the Air Force Research Laboratory released their fourth annual joint report on the state of the space industrial base.

These free tools will give you nice sounds while you work

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Listening to minimalist music helps me get into a working groove. In this post I’m sharing some of my favorite free listening resources. They don’t require you to register, download or buy anything.

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A cybersecurity expert explains the whistleblower claims of Twitter’s security failings

Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, filed a whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in July 2022, accusing the microblogging platform company of serious security failings. The accusations amplified the ongoing drama of Twitter’s

History suggests Apple won’t call its metaverse ‘the metaverse’

Facebook executives began hyping the term “metaverse” in 2021. That same year, Facebook even rebranded around the tech concept. But for mixed-reality tech, it’s still early innings, and some of the companies that will pl

Instacart acquires AI pricing platform Eversight

Instacart announced Thursday its acquisition of Eversight, an AI company that helps consumer packaged goods brands and retailers determine pricing and promotions.

Eversight’s AI allows consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and retailers to continuously test pricing and promotions at scale, streamlining what has traditionally been a time-consuming process. The tech gives CPG brands real-time insights into the promotions that could resonate with customers. For retailers, Eversight

Twitter really is about to let people edit their tweets

2022 has been Twitter’s weirdest year yet, but here’s news that will make some people very happy: The company says that paying Twitter Blue customers in New Zealand will get access to an edit button

Douglas Rushkoff: Silicon Valley’s elite prize data over reality, and it’s hurting us all

The companies that survived the dot-com boom had one thing in common: they had gone meta. Tim O’Reilly, the technology book publisher, called it Web 2.0. He said that Web 2.0 companies, like Google and eBay, treated the web as a platform, and leveraged the activity of users rather than spending money on their own people and merchandise. Unlike Yahoo, Google didn’t hir

5 free, time-saving Chrome extensions to make you more productive

We’ve only got so many hours in the day to get stuff done. So any chance to compress that time by doing things more efficiently is more than welcome. And if you spend most of your day in a web browser, you’re likely missing valuable time-saving opportunities that, little by little, can add up to a lot of time saved.

In that spirit, these five Chrome extensions–which also work on Chrome-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge–can work wonders when it comes

Lyft sued by 17 passengers, drivers who claim the company failed to protect them

Lyft is facing legal action filed by 17 passengers and drivers who claim they were sexually or physically assaulted while using the rideshare platform.

Attorneys say the alleged incidents, occurring across a number of states, include 13 sexual assault and four physical assault victims.

“Lyft has created a national crisis,” Adam Wolf, partner at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise (which filed the lawsuits and arbitration claims), told reporters Wednesday in a pres

DALL-E can now use AI to extend images as a human artist might

Since it was announced in April, the text-to-image AI tool DALL-E 2 has been wowing artists, researchers, and media types its high-quality images. Now, four months later, developer OpenAI is giving DALL-E 2 a new trick: the ability to extend the original images


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