Month: November 2023
BioBlack Is a Cleaner Alternative to the Filthy and Toxic Carbon Black Pigment
Nature Coatings makes a petroleum-free alternative to a widely used—and particularly toxic—black dye. But the problem it’s solving isn’t one the fashion industry is desperate to fix. Source
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Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma in peril after EU warning
Adobe has been issued with a formal antitrust complaint by EU regulators regarding its $20 billion bid for cloud-based product design platform Figma. Following an in-depth investigation that was launched on August 7th, the European Commission reached the preliminary conclusion on Friday that if the deal goes ahead, it may…
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OpenAI’s new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear
OpenAI has a third CEO in three days: Emmett Shear. After a shock firing of former CEO Sam Altman on Friday, Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear is officially taking over as interim CEO of OpenAI. The Information first revealed Shear’s appointment on Sunday night. The official announcement comes just an hour…
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Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Microsoft is hiring former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman. Altman was fired from OpenAI on Friday, after the board said it “no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” After a weekend of negotiations to potentially bring Altman back to OpenAI, Microsoft CEO Satya…
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Sam Altman isn’t coming back to OpenAI
After a weekend of negotiations to potentially bring back Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO following his shock firing, the company’s nonprofit board has gone another way entirely and named former Twitch CEO and co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter. He will take…
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SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet terminal has a kickstand
SpaceX quietly introduced a new Standard Starlink terminal that’s slimmer and simpler than the previous version, with a 10 percent broader field of view and no motor for setting up — instead, it comes with a kickstand; to orient it, you simply move it. A Starlink support page says the…
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