Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Are you ready for TC’s Space event!? It’s happening tomorrow in Los Angeles. Give me a shout-out if you’ll be attending, I’d love to meet you. In this issue: ICON’s in-space construction tech ambitions Astra’s management switch-up News from ispace, Metaspectral and more Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract…
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Micromobility operator Spin is leaving 10 U.S. markets due to a combination of low demand, over-regulation, under-regulation and poor cost structures, according to a company-wide email sent Friday by Philip Reinckens, Spin’s CEO, that was shared with TechCrunch. Reinckens said the market exits would help Spin cut costs and focus on growing markets that provide…
If your Instagram is awash in algorithmically generated portraits of your friends, you aren’t alone. After adding a new avatar generation tool based on Stable Diffusion, the photo editing app Lensa AI went viral over the last few days, with users sharing their uncanny AI-crafted avatars (and the horrible misfires) in stories and posts. Lensa’s…
ChatGPT is a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that’s designed to help people communicate with computers in a more natural and intuitive way — using natural language processing (NLP) technology. But what’s behind the development of ChatGPT and how can the tech be used to help humanity? These are some of the questions that we…
VentureBeat’s list of the top risk-based vulnerability management (VM) tools out there today for organizations of all sizes.Read More Read More
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is one of the games with a trailer coming to The Game Awards, supposedly with a launch date of March 15.Read More Read More
AI can be part of your Future of Work (FoW) strategy to help with loss of focus in a hybrid/remote work environment.Read More Read More
Enlarge / If you’re going to come at port 443, you best not miss (or forget to put a space between URL and port). (credit: Getty Images) KmsdBot, a cryptomining botnet that could also be used for denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, broke into systems through weak secure shell credentials. It could remotely control a system, it…
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of PC players getting hit with stuttering frame rates on the launch version of The Callisto Protocol. In Ars’ review of The Callisto Protocol last week, our reviewer praised the 60 fps graphics of the game’s Performance mode on the tested PlayStation 5 version. Since the game’s release, though, online forums…
Enlarge / Blasting off to new frontiers of pricing. Microsoft has become the latest big-name publisher to jump to a $70 asking price for the launch of big-budget games. The company said in a statement to IGN that the new pricing will start in 2023 for games built for the Xbox Series X/S and will…