These are the 10 operatives inside the Social Security Administration
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hacker group Doge has gained access to the US government’s Human Resource Department, the WIRED reported. As per reports, some of Musk’s operatives showed up at agencies like Palantir, Palantir’s Co-founder Peter Thiel’s firm Palantir Defence and the Social Security Administration. Doge was founded by Musk in June 2018 to hack US government systems.
Move over graphene, scientists forge these metals
A team of researchers have developed a technique to make 2D sheets of metal with a low melting point. The researchers used copper, which is heated in a furnace, and hammered and squeezed onto anvil to make sheets of copper. They found it took them seven years to adapt the concept at the nanoscale. The team used the method to make 2D sheets of metal.
DeepMind has an artificial intelligence robot slam-dunking a basketball
Google-backed startup Collected Artificial Intelligence has developed a new model called ‘Gemini Robotics’ which can respond to spoken commands and do things likeFolding paper, hand over veggies, and putting a pair of glasses in a case. The robots rely on the model to connect items that are visible with possible actions in order to do what they’re told.
Trump buys a car with Musk at the White House
US President Donald Trump has said he’ll buy Tesla CEO Elon Musk a new car. “I am going to buy one for him (Musk) as a show of confidence and support. He is a very special person,” Trump said while adding that he would keep the car at the White House for staffers to use. Earlier, Trump had said he would buy Musk a new car.
The Apple MacBook Air is more power for less money
Apple has released its MacBook Air M4 laptop, which is priced at $999 (over 76,000), $100 less than its previous version. The MacBook Air M4 has an Intel Kaby Lake processor with up to 8GB of memory and has a 60-inch LED-backlit display. The high configuration of the MacBook Air M4 will sell for $2,199 (over 17,000).
Trump’s DOJ doesn’t seem to mind if Google is broken up
The US Department of Justice has filed a revised proposal with a judge, asking him to force Google to sell its web browser Google Chrome and potentially Android as punishment for monopoly. Last year, Judge Amit Mehta found Google guilty of monopoly and fined it $1 billion. The DOJ had accused Google of anticompetitive practices to protect its search dominance.
The ancient humans are believed to have used bone tools one million years ago
Scientists in Tanzania have found a cache of animal-bone tools that are more than 1.5 million-year-old. They found 27 bones in Tanzania that have been honed into sharp tools almost 40 cm long. The findings suggest deliberate production of bone tools happened much earlier than previously thought, thereby pushing back the manufacture of bone tools by a million years.
Blue Ghost private glider has reached the moon
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission on Sunday made history as the first private cislunar (lander) to land on the Moon. “We want to thank NASA…for entrusting in the Firefly team,” Firefly Aerospace’s Chief Technology Officer Shea Ferring said. The company’s two-metre-high cislunar will carry a drill and a ‘planetvac’ to scoop the lunar dirt, among other experiments.
The first images of Blue Ghost are on the lunar surface
NASA has successfully landed its Blue Ghost mission on the Moon, making it the second private mission to land on the Moon after Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus last year. Blue Ghost is a lunar lander designed for human exploration, with a drill and a ‘vac planet’ to scoop the lunar dirt. This is also the first time a private mission has landed on the Moon.
The ThinkBook Flip has a folding display
Lenovo showcased a 13-inch laptop concept with a screen that flips and folds to turn it into an 18-inch laptop with a 4:6 aspect ratio. Lenovo’s Smart ForcePad trackpads can be used as an app launcher and serve as a number pad or button for your mic. The touchscreen OLED display also folds over the top of the lid.