Twitter isn’t adding an edit button anytime soon, but Jack Dorsey is open to change. The microblogging site’s CEO asked Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk — a constant tweeter and one of its most popular users, with more than 30 million followers — to suggest some improvements. Thousands of Twitter employees watched as Dorsey …
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Microsoft has invested $1 billion in OpenAI and reached a multiyear deal with the artificial intelligence research startup to jointly develop new supercomputing tech, the companies said Monday. OpenAI will run its services on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. San Francisco-based OpenAI, which launched in 2015, has repeatedly emphasized its focus on the ethical use of artificial intelligence that “benefits all of …
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Computer storage technology has moved from wires with magnets to hard disks to 3D stacks of memory chips. But the next storage technology might use an approach as old as life on earth: DNA. Startup Catalog announced Friday it’s crammed all of the text of Wikipedia’s English-language version onto the same genetic molecules our own bodies use. It accomplished the …
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The Twitter account of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long been one of the wackier places on the internet. Musk might’ve taken it a step further, changing his Twitter handle to Daddy DotCom and tweeting that he was done with the social media site. “Just deleted my Twitter account,” Musk tweeted early Monday. Just deleted my Twitter account — Daddy …
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A mostly uneventful keynote interview with Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos veered off the rails when an animal rights protester stormed the stage Thursday. The woman, who was hard to hear from the audience, called out as Bezos was sitting nearby in the middle of a “fireside chat” interview in front of thousands of people at Amazon’s re:MARS conference. …
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Drones are useful today for real estate photos and gas pipeline inspections. They could be useful tomorrow for home security and package delivery. But in a half decade, they could well shuttle you to work over the heads of drivers stuck in traffic. That’s what Anil Nanduri, general manager of Intel’s drone group, expects. Drone innovation combined with people paying …
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The Japanese billionaire who’ll be Elon Musk’s first paying passenger for a trip to the moon used his deep pockets to get the most retweeted tweet on all time over weekend. Yusaku Maezawa, who was revealed as the mystery SpaceX moon passenger back in September, had 4.8 million retweets as of Monday morning, crushing Carter Wilkinson’s 2017 attempt to get …
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SpaceX got the green light to send more satellites to space. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved SpaceX’s request to build, deploy and operate over 7,000 satellites in the very-low-Earth orbit. SpaceX will also have more frequency bands added to its previously authorized satellites, according to the FCC’s release. The company’s Starlink program is designed to use satellites at a …
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Who’s in charge of cleaning up all the space junk orbiting Earth? That’s the question the Federal Communications Commission is officially asking as it takes comment on a proposal to review its orbital debris rules. The FCC voted unanimously on Thursday to revamp its 2004 rules. Since the rules took effect more than a decade ago, there have been loads …
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Samsung has created smart TV software you can control with your brainwaves. The research, called Project Pontis, aims to make Samsung’s televisions more accessible for people with physical disabilities like quadriplegia. The company wants to enable “users with physical limitations to change channels and adjust sound volume with their brains.” Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s smart TV software is controlled …
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