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Why the moon’s early magnetic field might be responsible for life on earth Probing ancient magnetic fields The new research investigates how the Earth’s and Moon’s early fields may have interacted. But probing these ancient fields isn’t easy. Scientists rely on ancient rocks that contain small grains that got magnetized as the rocks formed, saving the direction and strength of the magnetic field at that time and place. Such rocks are rare and extracting their magnetic signal requirescareful and delicate laboratory measurement....

The music industry is not known for welcoming innovation. In fact, it’s downright hostile. If you’re a talented programmer, there’s a good chance that you’d rather hang yourself with your laptop cord than join a music startup. And good luck getting investors. Funny then that so many musicians and industry types are clamoring to work withRap Genius, a Bay Area startup that has created a massive and growing community around music lyrics....

Flick through a news feed on your phone and you are likely to scroll across an articlediscussing the heated rivalriesof the new space race. Forget the geopolitical struggles of a cold war. This time, it’s Tesla CEO Elon Musk versus Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: thetwo richest menin the world duking it out over whether SpaceX or Blue Origin, their respective companies, will be the dominant force in the new industry of private space flight....

Why the nonprofit OpenAI made GPT-3 a commercial product The change in OpenAI’s structure In March 2019, OpenAI announced that it would be transitioning from a non-profit lab to a “capped-profit” company. This opened the way for funding from investors and large tech companies, with the caveat that their returns will be capped at 100x their investment (talk about capped!). But why the structural change? In a post,the company announcedthat the move was meant to “rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission....

Yesterday, ASUSrevealeditsPadfone, a mobile phone that can ‘dock’ into a tablet device to give it a larger screen, additional battery power and I/O ports. Though ASUS might not have got it quite right, the Padfone is a step in the right direction and shows how in future you’ll only need a single phone which will plug into various docking systems to give you the functionality required. For example, a tablet for multimedia playback and a keyboard and larger screen for when you need a netbook....