Science & Technology

– Manuscript – More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers. Mattel is known for making children’s toys. The company recently used an AI image generator called DALL-E to come up with ideas for new Hot Wheels toy cars. The used vehicle seller CarMax is using ChatGPT to gather … [Read more...] about Businesses Use AI Tools Despite Risks

– Manuscript – A rocket made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts started its first flight late Wednesday but failed to reach orbit. The 33-meter-long rocket, called Terran 1, took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The startup company Relativity Space created 85 percent of the rocket using 3D printing technology. Most parts came from the company’s large printing center in … [Read more...] about 3D-printed Rocket Fails Minutes after Florida Launch

– Manuscript – Two chemical compounds necessary to living organisms have been found in material from the asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 collected the materials and sent them back to Earth. The findings from an international group of scientists support the idea that some elements of life arrived on Earth from asteroids billions of years … [Read more...] about Scientists Find Elements of Life on an Asteroid

– Manuscript – A Japanese company has found a way to turn unwanted rice into plastic goods. One company is working with farmers in the coastal town of Namie. Nearby is the Fukushima nuclear center, closed since a nuclear disaster there in March 2011. Jinichi Abe is a local rice farmer. He says people do not want to buy his rice because they worry it is radioactive. The … [Read more...] about Japanese Company Turns Unused Rice into Plastic Products

– Manuscript – Google has released a series of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to be used with Gmail, Google Docs and other products. Google has made the AI tools available for testing to developers and businesses before releasing them widely to the public. Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian announced the AI additions this week. The tools are designed to … [Read more...] about Google Adds New AI Tools for Developers, Businesses