Rocket Report: Astra warns of “imminent” bankruptcy; Falcon Heavy launch delay
Enlarge / Static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew 8 mission in early March. (credit: SpaceX) Welcome to Edition 6.33 of the Rocket Report!…
Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
Google says that it’s taking measures to prevent spam and abuse on its messaging service. | Image: Google Google is cracking down on rooted Android devices, blocking multiple people from…
Singapore puts new policies in place to help people displaced by AI
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While most governments are talking about the issue of what happens when AI takes jobs from people Singapore is doing something, and it looks good.…
Autonomous AI could create an autonomous cyber warfare System of Systems
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We could soon see an cyber autonomous AI system of systems and that will change the world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential…
The Apple Vision helps a blind man see again
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF People who are legally blind are not always completely blind, but have incredibly bad vision, and VR headsets that can modulate images can be life…
GPT4 based agents could soon become autonomous cyber weapons
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As we enter the age of AI agents the security implications could be world changing, and dare I say will be because this is inevitably…
This new Japanese cipher system could protect computers from spyware
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Spyware, malware, in fact all the cyber ‘wares will be an increasing problem in the future, but this cipher for cache randomisation could be a…
Y-Combinator Backed Startup Making BREAKTHROUGH Super-Efficient Mach 6 Jet Engine
Electric motors are finally getting good enough in performance to capture efficiency gains from having a second turbine drive an adaptive cycle jet engine. This new jet engine will enable…
Facebook will remove its News tab, and stop paying publishers for news
Facebook News US launch promo | Image: Facebook Facebook’s News tab launched in 2019 with millions of dollars in content deals for publishers (a reported $10 million for the Wall…
UnitedHealth says Blackcat is the reason healthcare providers are going unpaid
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Health insurance provider UnitedHealth has identified Blackcat as the group behind a debilitating cyber attack that has disrupted healthcare providers nationwide, Reuters…