Rep. Mark Takano, who represents California’s 39th district, has reintroduced his 32-hour Workweek Act to Congress, which, if passed, would officially reduce the standard definition of the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by amending the Fair Labor Standards Act. His proposal would mandate overtime pay for any work Read more…
Microsoft Germany announced that the company is set to launch GPT-4 as early as next week, “and it will potentially let you create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts,” reports Digital Trends. The news was revealed by Andreas Braun, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, at a recent event titled Read more…
Yesterday, Starbucks sold all of its 2,000 NFT “Journey Stamps” in under 20 minutes. They were the company’s first paid collection of NFTs and were priced at $100 each. The coffee company first launched its NFT and Web3 push in December, when it opened up a new membership program called Read more…
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University announced that they’d finally mapped every single neuron and all the connections between them housed inside the brain of a fruit fly larva. The team’s research was published this week in the journal Science. “If we want to understand who Read more…
Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current. This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy from Read more…
A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance” of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine’s Day in 2046, according to NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The asteroid has a 1 in 625 chance of striking Earth, Read more…
Google wants to build AI into everything to fight OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Google issued “a directive that all of its most important products — those with more than a billion users — must incorporate generative AI within months.” To combat Facebook’s rising popularity, then-Google CEO Larry Page directed employees to build Read more…