{"id":14232,"date":"2024-10-14T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14232"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:02:01","slug":"this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=14232","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/10\/geoffrey-hinton-john-hopfield-nobel-prize\/680193\/\"><strong>AI\u2019s Penicillin and X-Ray Moment<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Matteo Wong | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cWhen the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he\u00a0designated funds to reward those that \u2018have conferred the best profit to humankind.\u2019 The ensuing Nobel Prizes have since been awarded to the discoverers of penicillin, X-rays, and the construction of DNA\u2014and, as of as we speak, to 2 scientists who, many years in the past, laid the foundations for contemporary synthetic intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/i-applied-to-2-843-roles-the-rise-of-ai-powered-job-application-bots\/\"><strong>\u2018I Applied to 2,843 Roles\u2019: The Rise of AI-Powered Job Application Bots<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Jason Koebler | 404 Media<br \/><\/em>\u201cEarlier than I put my laptop computer apart on the restaurant I\u2019m working at, I open a terminal window, enter a single command, and hit enter. The server provides me my breakfast and I push my laptop computer away because the bot springs to life, opening a Chrome window and navigating to LinkedIn. It begins scrolling via job listings, and opens just a few of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2024\/10\/human-embryo-model-ethics\/680189\/\"><strong>They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Kristen V. Brown | The Atlantic<br \/><\/em>\u201cLately, Hanna and different scientists have made outstanding progress in cultivating pluripotent stem cells to\u00a0mimic the construction and performance of an actual, rising embryo. However as researchers resolve technical issues, they&#8217;re nonetheless left with ethical ones. When is a replica so good that it\u2019s equal to the true factor? And extra to the purpose, when ought to the lab experiment be handled\u2014legally and ethically\u2014as human?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-future\/jet-engine\/\"><strong>Ian Brooke Wants to Revolutionize Flight as We Know It<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Ross Pomeroy | Massive Assume<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe 34-year-old Brooke is CEO of Astro Mechanica, a Y Combinator-backed startup that has invented a brand new form of jet engine. It\u2019s radically extra environment friendly and versatile than something that has come earlier than. \u2026Astro Mechanica claims the Turboelectric Adaptive Engine will unlock huge effectivity features throughout an entire vary of speeds, however particularly at supersonic speeds between Mach 1.8 to Mach 3.4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-worlds-first-commercial-space-station-looks-like-a-luxury-hotel-inside\/\"><strong>The World\u2019s First Commercial Space Station Looks Like a Luxury Hotel Inside<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Carlton Reid | Wired<br \/><\/em>\u201c<span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">Aluminum for spacecraft<\/span>\u00a0interiors is pass\u00e9; what space-farers apparently need is wooden. That\u2019s the guess from\u00a0Huge, the makers of Haven-1, the world\u2019s first industrial house station set to be positioned in low-Earth orbit by the SpaceX Falcon rocket subsequent yr. First paying prospects shall be getting on board in 2026, and judging by the ultimate designs simply launched of the station\u2019s cozy inside, they\u2019ll really feel proper at residence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/the-long-game\/the-kevin-kelly-interview-the-power-of-radical-optimism\/\"><strong>The Kevin Kelly Interview: The Power of \u2018Radical Optimism\u2019<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Eric Markowitz | Massive Assume<br \/><\/em>\u201cKelly\u2014creator, thinker, and co-founder of <em>Wired<\/em> journal\u2014insists that to really play the lengthy sport and rebuild society for the higher, we should embrace one easy but profound mindset: optimism. \u2018Optimism,\u2019 he has written, \u2018allows us to succeed in good and nice issues past the aptitude of a single technology.\u2019 He additionally believes that in enterprise, embracing optimism\u2014and a long-term perspective\u2014can result in compounding benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-beautiful-confusion-of-the-first-billion-years-comes-into-view-20241009\/\"><strong>The \u2018Beautiful Confusion\u2019 of the First Billion Years Comes Into View<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Rebecca Boyle | Quanta<br \/><\/em>\u201cThe galaxies had been by no means alleged to be so shiny. They had been by no means alleged to be so large. And but there they&#8217;re\u2014oddly massive, luminous objects that preserve showing in pictures taken by the James Webb Area Telescope (JWST). Kevin Hainline<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(opens a brand new tab)<\/span>\u00a0is a part of a crew that makes use of the JWST to seek out these galaxies, whose brightness, obvious mass, and sheer existence a digital eyeblink after the Massive Bang are among the many largest surprises from the three-year-old mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>TECH<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/steve-blank\"><strong>The O.G. of Tech Startups Says AI Changes Everything<\/strong><\/a><br \/><em>Julianne Pepitone | IEEE Spectrum<br \/><\/em>\u201cNow [Steve] Clean, who teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford College, is considering how\u00a0synthetic intelligence\u00a0instruments are poised to remodel his lean startup technique\u2014by supercharging the method of testing hypotheses, creating novel merchandise, and creating companies with a velocity that people might by no means match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@martzzl?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Marcel Strau\u00df<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/green-purple-and-yellow-striped-textile-UsXi6qajLlU?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2024\/10\/12\/this-weeks-awesome-tech-stories-from-around-the-web-through-october-12-2\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI\u2019s Penicillin and X-Ray MomentMatteo Wong | The Atlantic\u201cWhen the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel wrote his will in 1895, he\u00a0designated funds to reward those that \u2018have conferred the best profit to humankind.\u2019 The ensuing Nobel Prizes have since been awarded to the discoverers of penicillin, X-rays, and the construction of DNA\u2014and, as of as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4373,5066,4374,157,4375,3752],"class_list":["post-14232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-awesome","tag-october","tag-stories","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}