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After a decade-plus of touch screens, brands across various industries are turning back to the tried-and-true pleasures of physical buttons for their newest products. Why It Hits: Although touch screens have seemed like the technology of the future, people have been clamoring for a return to the “older” tech due to safety concerns, its intuitiveness, and the simple […]
Sugar Land, Texas is taking to the skies for some future-minded transportation projects, including a city-funded rideshare service, air taxis, and a gondola-like option. Blue Sky Take: America is car country through and through, but some cities no longer have the space to accommodate the number of vehicles on the road. Herding some residents away from highways […]
Japanese scientists sent the first-ever satellite made of wood into orbit on Monday. Its success could revolutionize the space-engineering industry. Why It Flies: The satellite space race is in full swing, putting more man-made objects into orbit than ever. Finding a way to make satellites more sustainable could be a game-changer for both company checkbooks and the Earth’s […]
Meta has been quietly building a search engine to power its Meta AI chatbot, lessening its reliance on those of rivals like Google and Microsoft. Why It Hits: Data is gold in the world of AI — how it’s collected and how it’s controlled. With chinks forming in Google’s search dominance and chatbots generating a new way […]
AI startup Anthropic debuted a version of its Claude chatbot that can literally take over your computer and complete tasks you ask it to — like searching the web or inputting text like a human behind a mouse and keyboard. Why It Hits: AI agents are becoming all the rage in the industry, allowing the […]
Incumbent Virginia Representative Don Beyer turned down a chance to debate challengers Bentley Hensel and David Kennedy… so Hensel created a chatbot of Beyer to take his place. The Big Argument: AI is starting to infuse into every aspect of American life. But the fact that a Congressional debate was allowed to move forward with […]
Zoom announced that it’ll allow users to create clips featuring AI avatars of themselves to deliver messages at meetings they can’t (or don’t want to) attend. The Big Picture: Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has dreams of people sending AI avatars to take meetings for them while they do literally anything else. The new clip feature is the first step in […]
Chief Metaverse Officers have mostly disappeared from companies’ executive ranks as the technology never lived up to the impossible hype of just a couple of years ago. The Big Picture: The metaverse and VR are out, while AI and AR are in. It just goes to show how quickly the narrative can change from one emerging tech to […]
Both governmental agencies and private tech giants are working together to restart nuclear plants all across America, tapping into the powerful and misunderstood energy source for the first time in decades. Why It Sparks: The explosive growth of the AI industry requires a lot of energy to power the technology, so firms are rushing to find sustainable sources that […]
California passed a law extending the state’s Consumer Privacy Act to protect the privacy of a person’s brain data collected by neurotechnology companies (i.e., pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley). The Big Thought: Applications and technologies as diverse as mixed-reality headsets and meditation platforms can in some way record and collect the neural data of users… and […]