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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Renting properties to sublet them, the world’s largest polymer 3D printer, and a bare-bones Tesla Cybertruck interior
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I'm excited that the French Open main draw is in full swing today. ChatGPT helped these people earn more money and become better at their jobs. Insider profiled four of them about how it has made their jobs easier: a recruiter, broker, entrepreneur, and chief marketing officer. My colleague Jack Sommers gathered their profiles and highlighted how these workers turbocharged their jobs with technology. Email dsiu@insider.com or tweet @diamondnagasiu) Edited by Alistair Barr (tweet @alistairmbarr) in San Francisco and Hallam Bullock (tweet @hallam_bullock) in London.
☆ Virgin Galactic launches high-stakes flight carrying passengers to the edge of space
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
The space plane is designed to then detach from the mothership, fire its rocket engine and swoop straight up with its two pilots at the controls. Virgin Galactic confirmed just before 12:30 p.m. The space plane then coasted back to a landing back at New Mexico’s Spaceport America. The SpaceShipOne technology was parlayed into a larger space plane design, called SpaceShipTwo, which Virgin Galactic still flies today. Virgin Orbit, a sister company to Virgin Galactic that is focused on launching satellites to space on a small rocket, filed for bankruptcy in April.
☆ Virgin Galactic completes Unity 25 spaceflight in key final test before commercial service
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Michael Sheetz | In Michaeljsheetz | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Virgin Galactic did not publicly livestream the flight unlike the previous one that carried founder Sir Richard Branson in July 2021. ET, carrying the company's VSS Unity spacecraft up to an altitude of about 40,000 feet. Virgin Galactic previously said it aims to fly its first commercial mission in "late June," assuming a successful test flight on Thursday. Virgin GalacticUnity 25 represents a crucial moment in the history of Virgin Galactic, which has suffered repeated setbacks and years of delays in developing its spaceflight system. Virgin Galactic has yet to generate meaningful revenue, and needs to be flying spaceflights regularly in order to do so.
☆ See the world's largest polymer 3D printer that was used to make a fully recyclable 600-square-foot tiny home in Maine
  + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
The University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center 3D-printed a tiny home. The modular and prefab one-bedroom unit was built using recyclable pellets and ASCC's printer. The university says it's the world's largest polymer 3D printer. In 2022, the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) unveiled its 600-square-foot BioHome 3D, a 3D-printed "bio-based" home. But no other unit has been built with what the center says is the world's largest polymer 3D printer.
☆ Recycling 'end-of-life' solar panels, wind turbines, is about to be climate tech's big waste business
  + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Bob Woods | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +13 min
watch nowIndeed, the market for recycled solar panel materials is expected to grow exponentially over the next several years. One recipient of this federal funding is First Solar, the largest solar panel manufacturer in the U.S. Massive wind turbines, blades are almost all recyclableRetired wind turbines present another recycling challenge, as well as business opportunities. How the circular renewable energy economy worksPlayers in the circular economy are determined not to let all that waste go to waste. Vestas Wind Systems has committed to producing zero-waste wind turbines by 2040, though it has not yet introduced such a version.
☆ US home prices rose slightly in February, snapping seven months of declines
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Anna Bahney | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Washington, DC CNN —US home prices rose slightly in February, snapping a seven-month streak of month-over-month declines, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, released Tuesday. The national composite index now stands 4.9% below its June 2022 peak. Miami again had the biggest year-over-year price gain in February, followed by Tampa, Florida; and Atlanta. Miami had a year-over-year price increase of 10.8%, followed by Tampa with a 7.7% increase and Atlanta with an 6.6% increase. In January, four West Coast cities — San Francisco; Seattle; San Diego; and Portland, Oregon — saw year-over-year price declines.
☆ SpaceX Starship launch: Was it really a 'success?'
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
CNN —After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an eruption of flames over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the company sought to frame the mission as a success. Within the space industry, Thursday’s Starship test mission wasn’t considered an outright failure, Caleb Henry, director of research at the space research firm Quilty Analytics, said. The SpaceX Starship exploded after launch for a flight test on April 20, 2023. There isn’t just one Starship vehicle that’s spent years in the development pipeline. The SpaceX rocket that flew on Thursday “was really just a bare bones,” Reisman added.
☆ Meet the woman who wrote a shocking account of her life on Wall Street
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
Jamie Fiore Higgins interviewed on TV on Wednesday, August 31, 2022. And so in the book "Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs," published last summer, she chronicled them. A Goldman Sachs spokesperson said the company "strongly disagrees" with the characterization of its culture described in the book, and what it called "anonymized allegations." "For those 18 years, I cared more about Goldman Sachs than I did my husband, my kids, my parents," she told CNBC. Fiore Higgins' account represents one person's experiences over a set period of time.
☆ From deepfakes to Bing's chatbot, AI-generated content is everywhere. Here's how to spot it.
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Researchers have already developed some tools to spot AI-generated content and are claiming they have accuracy rates of up to 96%. Here's what you can do to detect AI-generated content. If you were to feed this tool Spanish-language text or a technical text like something from a medical journal, the tool would then struggle to detect AI-generated content. The second class of tools relies on the large language model's own prediction of a text being AI-generated or human. Other ways to spot AI-generated contentThe effectiveness of detection tools still relies on an individual's better judgment.
☆ Biden's clean energy factory jobs may elude U.S. union workers
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Nichola Groom | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +9 min
Right to work laws allow employees to work in union-represented workplaces and be covered by collective bargaining agreements without joining a union or paying dues. American products, he vowed, would be made with union labor. Union labor. Many of the jobs created will be union jobs, the official added. "It's not a favorable environment, but we can still organize," Samantha Smith, senior adviser for clean energy jobs at the AFL-CIO, said in an interview.
☆ It's time to buy this under-the-radar wind stock poised to benefit from the latest climate bill, Bank of America says
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Bank of America says it's time for investors to buy this little-known wind blade manufacturer poised to capitalize on Inflation Reduction Act tailwinds. TPIC YTD mountain TPI Composites shares so far this year Shares of the wind stock have jumped nearly 39% in 2023 after a 32% slump in 2022. The bank lifted it's price target to $14 from $9, suggesting shares should remain rangebound near term. So far this week, shares gained nearly 11%, despite fourth-quarter earnings falling short of estimates, according to FactSet. Among his reasons for the double-upgrade, Dumoulin-Smith cited a margin recovery and improving free cash flows.
☆ 'I really want to go back to fight:' A wounded Ukrainian soldier reflects on his recovery
  + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +8 min
The 6-foot-3-inch Ukrainian marine smiled and extended his right arm, a lightweight fusion of silicon, carbon fiber composites and thermoplastic. In a separate conversation with CNBC, Revived Soldiers Ukraine President Iryna Discipio said the effort to aid wounded soldiers "is extremely important." "I was in this sort of dark basement shelter with other wounded soldiers. "At that facility, there was one side for the [uninjured] imprisoned, another for wounded Ukrainian soldiers and a separate area for injured Russian soldiers." Russian troops staying in the hospital who could move on their own were allowed access to the open room where wounded Ukrainian soldiers were kept.
☆ Amid high levels of contamination, Puerto Rico town's residents plead for action
  + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
SALINAS, Puerto Rico — Shuttered windows are a permanent fixture in Salinas, an industrial town on Puerto Rico’s southeast coast that is considered one of the U.S. territory’s most contaminated regions. Salinas also has one of the highest incidence rates of cancer in Puerto Rico, with 140 cases reported in 2019, the newest figures available from the island’s Central Registry of Cancer. Those measures have a limited effect, however, and residents continue frustrated that their complaints about contamination have been ignored for years. That has been hailed by many in Puerto Rico, which has one of the highest asthma rates in a U.S. jurisdiction and whose power generation system is 97% based on fossil fuels. Although she has been the target of protests organized by frustrated residents, she said she is pushing for corrective measures.
☆ From Boeing Starliner to Goodyear Tesla tire, 3-D printing is becoming manufacturing reality
  + stars: | 2022-07-31 | by ( Rebecca Fannin | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +7 min
Currently, about 2% of its production is through additive manufacturing and more integration into the mix is in sight. 3-D printing is not for every job. Prices for industrial 3-D printing machines can vary from $25,000 to $500,000 and up to $1 million for huge systems. But stock market reception of 3-D printing as a pure-play investment theme has not been good in recent years. Pivoting to 3-D printing was the company's "Kodak moment," said owner and president Mark Lamoncha.
☆ The 8 best 'personal' private jets that only require one pilot to fly
  + stars: | 2020-06-21 | by ( Taylor Rains | Thomas Pallini | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +11 min
Personal private jets are intended to be flown by one pilot and are ideal for business, leisure, or both. aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via GettyCessna has long been the leader in single-pilot jet aircraft, with multiple models in its popular Citation line-up built with solo operations in mind. The light jet aircraft have dominated the skies since the 1970s with Cessna continuing production of new models nearly five decades later. Three variants of the product line are in existence, the HondaJet, HondaJet Elite, the HondaJet Elite S, and the HondaJet Elite II. David Slotnick/Business InsiderThe Pilatus PC-24 capitalizes on the success of the highly versatile PC-12 turboprop, another single-pilot aircraft, but adds on the speed of a jet aircraft.
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