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Startups must add AI value beyond ChatGPT integration
TechCrunch,
The AI hype train is going full swing. At this point, it is hard to name an industry not affected by this disruptive technology. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
7 Space Concepts That Were Too Wild for NASA
Gizmodo,
It boggles the mind to think of all the wondrous things that NASA has achieved since its inception in 1958, but it’s equally astounding to think about all the projects that could’ve been. Here are seven impressive concepts that died on the vine, whether because of huge cost, technological intractability, or just being… Read more...
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter dead at 96
Boing Boing,
Rosalynn Carter, first wife during her husband's late-70s presidency and a tireless healthcare and human rights campaigner, is dead at 96. She had entered hospice care in her home on Friday. In a statement, former President Carter said: "Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. — Read the rest
Hackers accessed sensitive health data of Welltok patients
Hackers accessed the personal data of more than a million people by exploiting a security vulnerability in a file transfer tool used by Welltok, the healthcare platform owned by Virgin Pulse. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with healthcare plans to provide communications to subscribers about their healthcare, confirmed in a data breach […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
LucidLink lands $75M for its on-demand file streaming tech
LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them, today announced that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Brighton Park Capital with participation from Headline, Adobe Ventures and Baseline Ventures. The tranche brings LucidLink’s total raised to $90 million […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
World on pace to blow past Paris climate targets, UN says
Politico Picks,
Global emissions need to fall 42 percent by 2030 to set the world on a path to limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Humanity remains far from that goal.
Maestro review: Bradley Cooper’s passionate, unruly ode to Leonard Bernstein
AV Club,
Bradley Cooper’s Maestro is an inspired ode to the late, great Leonard Bernstein. It’s also a thorny deconstruction of the man-as-tortured-genius trope, replete with a compassionate focus on his put-upon wife and the bond the two shared for close to three decades. Ambitious in scope and featuring two powerhouse… Read more...
Sam Altman gets job at Microsoft after weekend of "news" about him returning to CEO post at OpenAI
This Monday the Silicon Valley crypto Gollum tier of bluecheck Twitter wakes to learn that nonprofit boards can just tell you to fuck off. (Update: but what if everyone else fucks off too?) Microsoft has hired Sam Altman to power up its innovation in artificial intelligence after the co-founder of OpenAI was ousted as CEO in a chaotic boardroom coup on Friday. — Read the rest