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This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.A report Monday by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, citing unnamed sources, stated that Apple is in talks with Alphabet’s Google to bring the latter’s artificial intelligence mega-program, Gemini, to the iPhone. Gurman’s report raised but did not answer an interesting question, Who pays whom?Gemini is a recently-released program from Google that can do things similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but also a whole lot more, such as finding a…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Isolated. Abused. Overworked. These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and relationships with colleagues as they earned their Ph.D.s at a public university in the Midwest. I featured their writings in to get my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. …

SpaceX rocket was successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, along Florida's Atlantic coast today and it is heading to the International Space Station. The spacecraft consists of a capsule called Endeavour which is carrying four astronauts in a 16-hour flight to the ISS. Crew members are expected to reach the ISS on Tuesday if everything goes as planned. Know more about the SpaceX rocket launch and the Crew-8 mission here.Four astronauts en route to ISS for NASAAccording to a Reuters…

The internet sure does love a cat, as illustrated by games like Stray, and Copycat eagerly jumps on that bandwagon in its demo debut. Thankfully, that never feels gimmicky, and the Steam Next Fest sampling is packed with enough emotion to make the grumpiest grouch’s heart melt. Copycat illustrates a somber mix of both loss and belonging through Dawn, the cat, and Olive, an older lady who adopts her. Dawn isn’t receptive at all to her new home where even the ring of a telephone has the feline racing for cover. Before her…

Elon Musk's Neuralink has started to ‘mess' with people's heads - literally! The neurotechnology company has announced that it has performed its first human brain implant just months after it reportedly received interest from thousands of applicants. Neuralink received FDA approval last year for conducting human trials, and now, the first test has been carried out. In an X post on Tuesday, Musk announced, “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. Initial results show promising…

California's Stratolaunch has announced the successful completion of its 12th test flight, where its six-engine, 385-ft wingspan Roc carrier aircraft took to the air for a captive carry test of a Talon-A hypersonic vehicle hauling live propellant.Stratolaunch revealed plans for a huge aircraft to launch spacecraft into orbit back in 2011, but the world's largest plane didn't roll out from its hangar until 2017, and then on to its maiden flight a couple of years later.In 2020, the original plan was amended and a reusable…

The Xtracycle Stoker has just been unveiling, offering a new off-road electric cargo bike for anyone who has ever said, “I’ve got a lot of stuff and/or humans to carry, but I also have to keep going when the road ends.” Though it’s not just for hauling stuff – the Xtracycle Stoker can carry passengers as well. If their rear ends are small enough, the stretched rear rack is apparently capable of holding up to three passengers. That long rear rack is designed to do pull double duty as both a…

For scientists hoping to find life beyond Earth, Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the most intriguing places in the solar system. In October 2024 NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will blast off on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Jupiter. It will be equipped with massive solar panels, several cameras, an instrument that can sniff out chemicals in the moon’s atmosphere—and a 21-line poem entitled “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.” The poem was written by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, who says she’ll be on the…

What made you take on the responsibility of chairing the 2023 Jury for the JCB Prize for Literature? Srinath Perur (Apeejay Kolkata Literature Festival) I guess being part of the jury for a prize like this is one way of connecting, of sharing one’s sensibility with the world. It also seemed like it might be fun and illuminating to read a large cross-section of recently published books to get a sense for what’s going on out there. The 2022 shortlist comprised entirely of translations. As a translator, did the…

A video of me riding a scooter with seven kids on it has been circulating on the internet. The Mumbai police have now taken action against the scooter rider. He has been charged with attempted culpable homicide. Lately, we have been witnessing a trend among people, especially two-wheeler riders, where they perform stunts on public roads. In most cases, these stunts are done for videos that are posted on social media to gain fame. Cops often take action against such offenders, and this case is no different. The rider was…