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Here is the 500-Year geodesic dome home: Geoship reveals its first livable home
The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is now an actual physical reality. I first wrote about Geoship’s plan to build long-lasting...
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Irish drone delivery startup Manna Aero expanding to U.S. and mainland Europe
Drone delivery is super-hot, but there aren’t that many major players yet. Google’s Wing is doing well, but Amazon is still just getting...
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GPT-4 beats 90% of lawyers trying to pass the bar
ChatGPT is pretty amazing, and GPT-4 is significantly better than GPT-3.5. From my story on Forbes: In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated the reigning...
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Wing drone delivery in 2024: ‘Capable of handling 10s of millions of deliveries for millions of consumers’
Drone delivery is getting closer and closer to something that pretty much everyone in developed nations can access and appreciate. Companies like...
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YouTube invalid traffic bug: what 5 YouTube creators say
On November 16th, revenue for skippable ads dropped 50%, 60%, even 90% for many YouTube creators. They say YouTube variously admits it was a bug...
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Geoship now has an actual prototype built of the 500-year-lifespan geodesic...
Mojo Vision’s smart contact lens is basically feature complete
BMW vs Tesla: BMW to sell 25% of its cars online in 3 years
Automating the on-demand economy: keeping up with Amazon’s 200,000 robots
Here is a 3-core battery-free stamp-sized computer with an ARM processor that...
A Fitbit for your blood: this infrared spectrometer analyzes your health at home
Programmable matter: MIT building self-assembling robots for space
22 essential mobile app marketing strategy trends for 2022
1 small thing you can do for Ukraine in 5 minutes with no money
10 tips for optimizing your growth loop
Building an artificial brain: 86B neurons, 500T synapses, and a neuromorphic...
Topics API: How Privacy Sandbox on Android connects people with ads
Rarible: Half of e-commerce ‘doesn’t need to be physical’
Privacy Sandbox for Android – livestream
Ukrainian tech startups dodging bullets and bombs but keep working to ‘distract...
Ukrainians prepping for internet loss by getting apps for offline, private...
The first 5 minutes of a cyberattack: What happens, and what to do
Android’s SDK Runtime in Privacy Sandbox is a game changer
Apple’s ATT burned Facebook bad. Google’s Privacy Sandbox is a kiss in...
The future of surgery is robotic
Starlink hits 250,000 customers, Elon Musk hints: SpaceX booking over $300...
Cincinnati Children’s using supercomputer, AI for early mental health and...
FLoC is dead. Long live Google Topics API.
Cybersecurity: in tools we do (not) trust
SpaceX losing 40 Starlink satellites to geomagnetic storm
Thought to text: brain-computer interface lets you type, move robotic arms with...
Can we save dying coral reefs by 3D printing more?
11 massive opportunities for Microsoft in gaming and beyond, thanks to the...
