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On my radar A rocket featuring the world’s first rocket engine 3D
printed as a single piece blasted off from India’s east coast in late May.
Startup Agnikul fabricated the engine in just 72 hours and hopes the approach
could open the door to “on-demand” rocket launches for operators of small satellites.
10 spectacular images from Milky Way Photographer of the
Year awards
'A glimpse into the vastness beyond.'
CAREER
Welcome back! This week, we’re looking at the pros and cons
of hustle culture and the gig economy.
If you’ve never fallen down an algorithm-powered rabbit hole
of online hustle culture, here’s a primer: self-help influencers tell viewers
to break free from the shackles of the 9-to-5 job, insisting that the most
liberating—and lucrative—path to financial freedom doesn’t even require you to
get out of bed in the morning. So long as you have a laptop or smartphone, you
can start drop-shipping or affiliate marketing, sell digital products or
transcription services, or offer virtual assisting and influencing, all of
which promise riches that flirt with six figures a month. (The multilevel
marketers of yore walked so that digital courses could run.)
WOMEN IN TECH
What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to
Hugging Face’s head of global policy
Irene Solaiman on tackling racial bias, language equity,
consent, and why there are so many AI girlfriends.
Helen Toner: Skynet isn't the only AI nightmare
We need to think more "holistically" about potential
"civilization-scale bad outcomes" from artificial intelligence in
coming decades, AI expert Helen Toner told Axios' Ina Fried at the Axios AI+
Summit Wednesday.
ROBOTICS
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics show off first project: an
open source robot that does chores
Earlier this year, the open source AI code community and
company Hugging Face, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, made waves by
announcing the hiring of a former robotics engineer from Tesla’s Optimus
program to lead its new effort — an open-source robotics program called “Le
Robot.”
AI
Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
Leveraging a human speech model to identify different types of barks.
The Tribeca Film Festival will debut a bunch of short films
made by AI
They will be created using OpenAI’s Sora model that
translates text to video.
CYBERSECURITY
Be Careful: These Android Apps Are Installing Malware,
Stealing Your Data
Zscaler identifies 90+ malicious apps on Google Play that
were downloaded over 5.5 million times. Many pose as PDF or QR code readers and
install data-stealing malware once you update them.
Cool Technology
Apple gives us a sneak peek at the AI features coming to
iPhones, iPad, and Macs this fall.
How battery-swap networks are preventing emergency blackouts
When an earthquake rocked Taiwan, hundreds of Gogoro’s
battery-swap stations automatically stopped drawing electricity to stabilize the grid.
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