Monthly Archives: November 2022

Twitter’s former trust & safety chief, who once said the platform was safer under Elon Musk, now says he believes the opposite

Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth (left), Twitter CEO Elon Musk (right) Getty Twitter is not safer under Elon Musk, according to Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth.  The statement is a reversal for Roth, who wrote the opposite in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month.  Twitter said it would stop…

OpenAI upgrades GPT-3, stunning with rhyming poetry and lyrics

Enlarge / An AI-generated image inspired by Leonardo da Vinci. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, OpenAI announced a new model in the GPT-3 family of AI-powered large language models, text-davinci-003, that reportedly improves on its predecessors by handling more complex instructions and producing longer-form content. Almost immediately, people discovered that it could also generate rhyming…

China’s astronauts embark on a direct trip to their brand new space station

Tiangong translates to ‘Heavenly Palace.’. CNS / AFP / China OUT via Getty Images Three astronauts launched aboard a Chinese National Space Administration rocket in the early hours of Tuesday morning from the Gobi Desert. They are now en route to China’s recently completed Tiangong space station. Although another three astronauts were already aboard Tiangong since before it…

Let’s-a-go again with a new ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ trailer

One month after Nintendo debuted its first trailer for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” the company has revealed yet another trailer—this time giving fans a first look at Princess Peach and Donkey Kong. In the newest trailer, viewers get to see more of Illumination’s incredible animating skills with Donkey Kong, voiced by Seth Rogen, completely…

Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

ICON, a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. The $57.2 million contract is a continuation of a previous Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) dual-use contract with the U.S. Air Force, which was…