There are only two certainties. Death and Taxes. Microsoft reported the IRS slapped the company with a $29 billion bill for back taxes. The US Internal Revenue Service came up with the figure based upon the tax havens and shelters the company uses to hide profits from Uncle Sam. The bill encompasses tax years between...
The US Federal Communications Commission fined Dish Network $150,000 this week for polluting Earth’s atmosphere. The fine is the first of its kind and could pave the way to keep other satellite and space operators in check for simply leaving damaged and end-of-life garbage in orbit. Depending on who you ask, and the sizes of...
We’re not talking about Joe Theismann asking to check your zip code. I work for a technologist. Like the vast majority of technologists he’s an optimist. He sees all the good things technology can bring to the world. He leans back in his chair and waxes poetic about how AI can be used to solve...
There are some things you can’t make up. Zuckerberg touting new AIs that impersonate celebrities as a killer app is one thing you can’t make up. Meta’s AI-powered nude sticker generating feature for Messenger is another. MF (Meta/Facebook) rolled out an update for its Messenger program this week. The new feature was made available to...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned to Earth safely this Sunday and we can’t wait to learn what it brought back. In real science news, the kind that actually furthers human knowledge, the OSIRIS-REx capsule returned to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx mission is an asteroid sample reclamation project conceived by NASA. What Is OSIRIS-REx OSIRIS-REx is a probe...
Mark Zuckerberg announced new chatbots in his first in-person appearance since COVID and after Elon Musk challenged him to a duel. It’s as if we didn’t need more things that could go wrong. Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced new chatbots that will know recipes, how to bake, and settle arguments on Facebook while having a...
It seems like we write an article about the dangers of rushing AI technology every other week. And this is the other week. Driverless cars operated by Cruise caused a massive traffic jam in Austin, Texas this week. The company operates a driverless taxi service that promises to pick people up from one location and...
SpaceX, another Elon Musk company, launched its 67th rocket of the year this past Tuesday. That amounts to a launch every 4 days. SpaceX is on pace for 90 launches this year and no one is really excited about it. This lack of excitement is intentional. The Drive to Commercialize Space SpaceX is driving hard...
The last thing I want is to be chipped by Elon Musk. After receiving FDA approval for his microchip paralysis treatment in May, Neuralink – an Elon Musk company, is seeking humans for its first clinical trial involving people. Neurolink has technology it claims will treat people suffering from paralysis. The technology is a brain-computer...
The 20s may go down as a period of reckoning when artists and other creatives battle against large corporate suits to get everything they’re worth. George R.R. Martin, aka Tyrian Lannister, writer of the Game Thrones series of books has joined a class action suit against OpenAI. Martin and 17 authors from the Authors Guild....