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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

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Recycle My Battery (Edison, New Jersey) A nonprofit working to reduce the environmental impact of batteries by installing free-to-use recycling bins in public locations throughout their community. Pictured at top). Some of these are pretty legit. Feel free to look me up when that pre-seed round hits, all.

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Radar Trends to Watch: March 2023

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Make-a-video (MAV3D) demonstrates an AI system that generates 3D video from text description. As with other Google projects, some intriguing samples are available (the reggae is particularly good), but the model isn’t open to the public. An open-source re-implementation of MusicLM is available on GitHub.

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Biohacker’s latest answer to health care hurdles: Homebrew meds

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During his presentation here at this year’s Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) biennial hacker confab, Laufer and the Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective he represents debuted a 3D-printable version of the chemical reactor hardware for turning chemicals, as well as painkillers like oxycodone, into more helpful medication.

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic acquires DARPA-backed firm behind open source robotics software

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Specifically, Intrinsic is buying Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the for-profit arm of Open Robotics, and Open Source Robotics Corporation Singapore (OSRC-SG), the portion of the business that led efforts on a project called Open-RMF for interoperability between fleets of robots and physical infrastructure (e.g.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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The app is also integrated with Whisper , OpenAI’s open source speech recognition system, to allow for voice input. A Brooklyn-based 3D display startup Looking Glass utilizes ChatGPT to produce holograms you can communicate with by using ChatGPT. That means a decision could take up to five more months.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

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It can also apply to large companies, governments, and even nonprofits. By demonstrating that the work of government can be done quickly and cheaply at massive scale using open source software, machine learning, and other 21st-century technology, we look to shape the expectations of the market. Now that’s a real unicorn!