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A Robot’s Nightmare Is a Burrito Full of Guac - Welcome to the future: A robot can now prepare your favorite Chipotle order. Just as long... - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/chipotle-fast-food-preparation-robots/675559/?utm_source=feed

ISS Mimic Brings Space Station Down to Earth - Built at a cost of more than $150 billion over the last twenty-five years, the Int... - https://hackaday.com/2023/10/06/iss-mimic-brings-space-station-down-to-earth/ #internationalspacestation #hackadaycolumns #scalemodel #telemetry #hackchat #space #iss

GoldDigger Android trojan targets Vietnamese banking apps, code contains hints of wider targets - More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based info... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/06/golddigger_android_trojan_vietnam_attacks/

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Could Land on Mars in 3 to 4 Years - The prediction is the latest in a series of ambitious timelines for reaching the red plan... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/science/elon-musk-spacex-starship-mars.html #nationalaeronauticsandspaceadministration #internationalastronauticalfederation #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #rocketscienceandpropulsion #privatespaceflight #spaceandastronomy #your-feed-science #mars(planet) #muskelon #moon

UN Report Urges Global End To Fossil Fuel Exploration by 2030 - Fossil fuel exploration should cease globally by 2030 and funding to rescue poor c... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/10/05/1537254/un-report-urges-global-end-to-fossil-fuel-exploration-by-2030?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth

Adobe teases new AI photo editing tool that will ‘revolutionize’ its products - Even Adobe is sick of using the lasso tool to manually sep... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/5/23904416/adobe-max-sneak-project-stardust-ai-photo-editing-tool

Google releases Gmail app for Wear OS - Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images

... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/4/23903765/google-gmail-app-wear-os-release

UK Universities Take $50 Million in Fossil Fuel Funding Since 2022 - Major fossil fuel companies have committed tens of millions of pounds in funding t... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/10/04/1937224/uk-universities-take-50-million-in-fossil-fuel-funding-since-2022?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #uk

The Download: thermal energy networks, and AI propaganda - This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a d... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/04/1080818/the-download-thermal-energy-networks-and-ai-propaganda/ #thedownload

Airwave a 'license to print money' on legacy blue-light comms contract - Profits and revenue increase for Motorola subsidiary challenging regulator price cap ruli... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/04/airwave_profits/

Hannah Diamond Has Cracked the Code of Using AI for Music - For hyperpop artist Hannah Diamond, generative AI isn’t a threat. It’s another tool in he... - https://www.wired.com/story/hannah-diamond-has-cracked-the-code-ai-music/ #culture/digitalculture #culture/music #culture #wired30

Microsoft Overhauls OneDrive With a Big New Design, AI Copilot Integration - Tom Warren writes via The Verge: Microsoft is announcing the third generation of i... - https://slashdot.org/story/23/10/03/2027212/microsoft-overhauls-onedrive-with-a-big-new-design-ai-copilot-integration?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #microsoft

Meta To Lay Off Employees in Metaverse Silicon Unit Tomorrow - Meta is planning to lay off employees on Wednesday in the unit of its metaverse-or... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/03/1943245/meta-to-lay-off-employees-in-metaverse-silicon-unit-tomorrow?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #facebook

X has to pay $1.1 million in legal fees for ex-Twitter execs - Illustration: The Verge

A judge has ruled that X, ... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23902271/x-corp-must-pay-legal-fees-ex-twitter-executives

Microsoft kills its classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure - Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning Microsoft will deprecate the class... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/03/azure_virtual_desktop_classic_eol/

India Is Using Terrorism Laws to Target Journalists - Police seized laptops and phones from reporters working for the anti-establishment Newscl... - https://www.wired.com/story/india-is-using-terrorism-laws-to-target-journalists/ #business/policyandnetneutrality #clickbait #business

UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Britain's passport database... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/10/02/2159234/uk-passport-images-database-could-be-used-to-catch-shoplifters?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #privacy

ASUS's Zenbook S 13 is light, fast, and immediately impressive - Taiwanese brand is a portability and productivity contender Desktop Tourism  The Register... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/02/asus_zenbook_s_13/

Knots are untied as The Wheel of Time season two approaches its end - Enlarge / Egwene abides. (credit: Amazon Studios)

Andrew Cunni... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1971814 #brandonsanderson #amazonstudios #robertjordan #wheeloftime #culture #tvrecap #amazon #review #tv

Lina Khan’s Amazon lawsuit is nothing like her famous law article - The Amazon lawsuit the FTC filed Tuesday shows how Lina Khan has evolved as a regulator. ... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/27/lina-khan-amazon-antitrust-paradox/