Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Monday on Instagram that he will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of New Shepard, the rocket ship built by his space travel company Blue Origin. Joining him on the July 20th flight will be his brother, Mark, and two others, one...
El Salvador has accepted the popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender, becoming the world’s first country to do so. 62 members of the country’s Congress voted in favor of the bill, while 19 members opposed and 3 abstained. As of now, the country’s citizens can freely spend...
The University of Cambridge has announced [https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/HawkingArchive] that the archive of the late world-renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author Stephen Hawking will be digitized and made freely available to students, researchers, and the public. The archive will boast a wide selection from Hawking’s...
Microsoft president Brad Smith suggested that unregulated AI like facial recognition could result in widespread mass surveillance similar to the premise of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 if more laws aren’t established to protect people. Smith shared his thoughts on the subject while speaking to BBC Panorama on...
Google is being sued over gender pay disparity in a class-action lawsuit by 10,800 women who have held various positions at the company since 2013. The original suit brought by Google employees Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, and Kelli Wisuri in 2017 was tossed out by a judge before being...
The capped-profit AI research and deployment company, OpenAI, is launching a $100 million fund to invest in early-stage startups that use artificial intelligence to advance various industries. The fund, which includes Microsoft as one of its investors, will be directly managed by OpenAI. Founder Sam Altman has announced that the...
