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Glass Substrates and Panos Panay Heads to Amazon
Intel seems pretty excited about glass substrates, and Panos Panay is reportedly heading to Amazon after leaving Microsoft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple Depressingly Ahead of Peers in Environment Issues
Apple isn’t perfect on environmental issues, but it’s depressingly ahead of its peers. The distance between where the mobile industry is and where it needs to be is stark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fall's New COVID-19 Vaccines and Honda's Electrified '80s Microscooter
The new COVID-19 vaccines are here for the fall, and Honda's adorable '80s microscooter is back and electrified for the 21st century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI Makes Products Listings and Soda Now
Amazon Encourages AI-Generated Product Listings and Coca-Cola's Markets AI-generated Soda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lyft’s Woman+ Connect and FDA Finds Most Common Oral Decongestant Doesn’t Work
Lyft aims to match women and nonbinary riders and drivers with each other more often, and the FDA finds that the most common oral decongestant in the US does not work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track is 'not eligible' for a Grammy
In this episode, we focus on the new rules of AI art when it comes to the AI-generated fake Drake and The Weeknd track not being eligible for a Grammy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Space Station Fungus Solution and Rice-Sized Drug-Monitoring Implant
Scientists may have a solution to the International Space Station's fungus problem, and an experimental rice-sized implant monitors how drugs affect tumors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Biometric Implants for Organ Rejection and Robotic Worms for Jet Engine Inspection
Biometric implant monitors transplant patients for organ rejection, and GE Aerospace is developing a robotic worm to inspect and repair jet engines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airbnb Ban and State AGs Push Congress on AI-CSAM
NYC’s ‘de facto ban’ on Airbnb is already removing listings, and Attorneys General from all 50 states urge Congress to help fight AI-generated CSAM. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
China plans $40 billion fund for its chip industry
It follows continued trade sanctions from the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
India launches spacecraft to study the sun a week after landing on the moon
Aditya-L1 could help us understand how solar phenomena affect satellites in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
US Copyright Office opens public comments on AI and content ownership
It addresses questions like the required degree of human authorship and training AI models on existing IP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google is pushing its AI-powered search on India and Japan
The feature remains opt-in, for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Air Force wants AI drones
The XQ-58A Valkyrie is expected cost $3 million apiece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ChatGPT's Politics & Synchron's BCI Breakthroughs
ChatGPT is easily exploited for political messaging despite OpenAI's policies, and Synchron's BCI implants may help paralyzed patients reconnect with the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why AI needs regulation and how we can do it
Retraining workers for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow will be imperative, argues author Tom Kemp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NASA's New Pollution Maps
NASA reveals pollution maps gathered by the TEMPO space instrument; US Justice Department sues SpaceX for alleged discriminatory hiring practices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Paralyzed Woman 'Speaks' Through a Digital Avatar and India is First to Land on The Moon’s South Pole
University of California BCI study enables paralyzed woman to 'speak' through a digital avatar, and India is the first country to land at the Moon's south pole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Voice Control Cars with Tesla App and TikTok Search Ad Infestation
Tesla's iPhone app can now control your car through Siri, and TikTok search results are about to get infested with ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hard Sail Test Hits the High Seas and Russia's Luna-25 Spacecraft Hits the Moon
Hard sail test hits the high seas, aiming to reduce cargo ship emissions by 30 percent and Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scientists recreate an iconic Pink Floyd song by scanning listeners' brains
The research looked at how brains interact with music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The latest EV updates from Honda and GM
Acura's ZDX EV has an estimated 325 miles of range and starts at around $60,000; GM’s latest investment could speed development of cheaper EV batteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
New AP guidelines lay the groundwork for AI-assisted newsrooms
But there's no guarantee that other outlets will be as restrained in their use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
An Iowa school district is using AI to ban books
The system has already flagged 19 titles for removal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scientists genetically engineer bacteria to detect cancer cells
Their lab experiments were a success, but the technology is not yet to ready for use on human patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chip implants get under your skin so you can leave your keys at home
Unlock doors, authenticate your identity or show off a cool party trick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The White House's 'AI Cyber Challenge' and Twitter Took Too Long to Turn Over Data to the January 6th Investigation
The White House's 'AI Cyber Challenge' aims to crowdsource national security solutions, and Twitter was fined for belatedly complying with a search warrant for Donald Trump's account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Making Contact with Voyager 2 and Keeping Cool in Space
NASA regained contact with Voyager 2 after it went dark for two weeks, and the ISS experiment that will help scientists work out how to keep astronauts cool in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Animal Communication and AI
Why humans can't use natural language processing to speak with animals? We have 6,500 languages, and they're all easier to translate than what comes out of a finch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI Applications, from Planets to Your Phone
IBM and NASA teamed up to build the GPT of Earth sciences and Microsoft's Bing chat is available in Chrome and Safari mobile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Will AI revolutionize professional soccer recruitment?
Artificial intelligence has the potential to disrupt the global soccer industry on multiple fronts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Acura’s First EV and Telsa’s Hardware Exploit
Acura teases its first electric vehicle, and researchers reveal Tesla jailbreak that could unlock Full Self-Driving for free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI Helping Cancer Screenings and Paralysis Patients
AI-assisted cancer screening could cut radiologist workloads in half, and AI-enabled brain implant helps patients regain feeling and movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Water-Soluble Circuit Boards and NASA’s Pick for a Rocket Partner
Water-soluble circuit boards could cut carbon footprints by 60 percent, and NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build the nuclear rocket that’ll take us to Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Navigating Accessibility and Sustainability in Transportation
A new app could help people with visual impairments navigate the NYC subway, and Mazda stops selling its only EV in the US and begins rethinking its EV strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The New Direction of Navigation
An Amazon, Microsoft-led group shares data for open alternative to Google Maps and an app that could help people with visual impairments navigate the NYC subway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Electric Vehicles—and Chargers—Across North America
Major automakers team up to create new North American EV charging network and GM says a next-gen Chevy Bolt is on the way Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI Safety, from Big Companies to Single Pixels
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI form an AI safety group and MIT looks to protect your photos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Fact and Fiction of Life Beyond Earth
An astrophysicist who claimed to find alien tech may have done the science wrong and Congress holds a hearing on UFOs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The World Keeps Shrinking
Amazon gets ready to expand broadband access and a start-up wants to connect remote areas with pilotless planes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
'Vision Zero' could help reclaim roads from American car culture
The plan's not perfect but still better than getting hit by a truck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon’s Grip on the Market and Palm Payment
Amazon is bringing its palm-based payments to all Whole Foods Market stores and Jason Del Rey’s take on Amazon's unique 'threat' to digital commerce from his book Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We’re Not Ready for Digital 'Immortality'
The future of digital ‘immortality’ is here, and we’re not ready. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Net-Zero Construction and Really Long Tweets
What Brimstone's decarbonized cement means for Net-Zero Construction and Twitter's new publishing tools for long-form articles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Avocado Robot and Striking Actors
What Chipotle's guacamole robot could mean for jobs and what striking actors have to say about the rejected “groundbreaking AI proposal." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
EVs for NASA and Space Travel and the Immigrant Experience
Electric vehicle startup Canoo's first shipment to Space Travel and the Immigrant Experience from “Scientists Without Borders: Immigrants in NASA and the Apollo Program” by Rosanna Perotti from the book After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the Moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Closer to Space Tourism and Looking Good
The Launch date for Virgin Galactic's first private passenger spaceflight and NASA expands developers' contracts for its next-gen spacesuits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lost in Launch and Found on Mars
Blue Origin investigates why a rocket engine exploded during testing, and researchers find evidence of organic matter on Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI in the Newsroom and the Courtroom
AI could help local newsrooms remain afloat in a sea of misinformation while Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Paper Pills and Memory Meds
Scientists make ibuprofen and other common painkillers from paper industry waste, and the first drug that slows Alzheimer's has finally received FDA approval. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices