NASA collected a sample from a asteroid for the first time
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully landed on asteroid Bennu after a 6.4-year journey. It landed on the asteroid, which is about 90 million km from Earth, to sample and return the asteroid’s surface pebbles. If found to be intact, that would be the biggest haul of extraterrestrial material carried back by any nation on Earth since Apollo astronauts carried pieces of the moon home.
California’s Governor has imposed a statewide ban on driverless trucks
The Teamsters union has urged California Governor Gavin Newsom to veto the bill that would have required a safety driver on self-driving trucks weighing over 10,000 pounds through at least end of the decade. The bill, AB316, would have given California Department of Motor Vehicles time to consider rules allowing trucks over 10,000 pounds to drive on California roads.
The pricing model for Unity has been changed
A video game developer said that Unity’s ‘runtime fee’ is not going to fix it and he won’t be using it for his next project. “We don’t trust them to stick to their word. I think they damage their brand for game developers nationwide, and…walkback isn’t going to fix it,” said Necrosoft Games’ co-founder. He further said he was “privy to these changes”.
This weekend is the last chance for NASA to bring home asteroids
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will return asteroid rock samples to Earth, is on track to reach the target on October 2, the space agency has announced. The mission will collect samples from an asteroid nicknamed ‘Asteroid X’ that is roughly the size of a medium-sized sedan. NASA’s Psyche mission will launch in October to another asteroid called ‘Phosphorus’.
Workers are demanding Job Security in the future of transport
The United Auto Workers is on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis as they’re trying to “undermine workers” through the transition to electric vehicles, the union said. Some of the plants that the legacy automakers needed to pull off the transition have been stood up mostly in US states hostile to union organising, such as Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama.
The hardware event had everything that Microsoft had to announce:Surface Laptop Studio2,Surface Laptop Go 3, and Copilot in Windows
Microsoft has announced that its voice-based assistant, Copilot, will be available on Windows X later this month. The feature will allow users to control aspects of thedesktop experience with voice or text commands. Copilot will be available on the Windows desktop, as a stand-alone app and also within Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft announced at its hardware event that there would be a Surface Laptop Go 3
Microsoft unveiled its newSurface laptops, Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Studio 3, which were available for pre-order through its online store on Tuesday. “Surface Laptop Studio 2 features a high-end, high-end Intel Core i processors, 4GB of RAM and comes with an Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics card,” Microsoft said. The laptops are priced at $1,999 and $1,499, respectively.
The smart display is hands-on
Amazon has unveiled a smart home control panel called ‘Echo Hub’ that connects to the company’s Alexa platform. It enables users to connect their devices to its network and control them with just one tap. The panel will cost around $399.99 and is available on Amazon.com, Best Buy, and other brick-and-mortar retailers.
This is an ai remake for the person
Amazon’s new voice-enabled device ‘Alexa’ will need to respond to a person’s body language, which is not structured in the same way as written language, a voice-over expert has said. Prasad said that the large language models that power services like ChatGPT can makeup facts, blurt out nonsense, and be downright inappropriate. Prasad added that upgrading Alexa’s language skills required extensive engineering.
The third-gen Echo Show 8 is hands-on
Amazon on Tuesday revealed a new Fire TV Stick with an “ambient experience” which will allow users to use the TV screen as a smart display while not using it. It will also allow users to create artwork using just their voice with AI Art. The feature will begin rolling out to customers in the US by the end of this year.