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NASA orders studies from private space companies on Mars mission support roles May 03, 2024

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Mars exploration has been always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, awarding a dozen research tasks to private companies as a prelude to commercial support for future missions to the Red Planet.

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Peloton announces 400 layoffs, 15% of the workforce, as CEO Barry McCarthy departs May 03, 2024

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Peloton, the exercise equipment maker and creator of online fitness classes, has announced that it’s laying off 15 percent of its workforce — 400 people — as CEO, president, and board director Barry McCarthy steps down after two years in the role.

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Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions May 02, 2024

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Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool.

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Elon Musk guts Tesla’s charging team after winning over major automakers May 02, 2024

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Tesla has gutted its charging team in a new round of layoffs, despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors and making its connector the defacto standard in North America.

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Bumble’s “Opening Move” feature takes the pressure off women to come up with a new message every time May 01, 2024

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As Bumble prepares for its app relaunch this summer, the women-first dating platform announced a series of product updates on Tuesday, including a new feature that lets women prepare questions to send to matches, additional dating intention preferences and prompts, and more.

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The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu Dhabi May 01, 2024

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Wander the pits at any professional motorsports event, especially something like Formula 1, and you’ll see endless computer displays full of telemetry

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Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit eclipses core food business in value, says Goldman Sachs Apr 30, 2024

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Goldman Sachs said in a report late Thursday that Indian food delivery giant Zomato’s quick commerce arm Blinkit is now more valuable than its core food delivery business, as per the bank’s sum-of-the-parts analysis.

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OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use Apr 30, 2024

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OpenAI, maker of the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, has netted another news licensing deal in Europe, adding London’s Financial Times to a growing list of publishers it’s paying for content access.

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Google’s new ‘Speaking practice’ feature uses AI to help users improve their English skills Apr 29, 2024

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Google is testing a new “Speaking practice” feature in Search that helps users improve their conversational English skills.

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The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems Apr 29, 2024

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At a quick glance the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not.

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