Technology News for Friday 27th December 2024

1. Stewart Avenue 'Sagan House' sold at cosmic price to scrap metal CEO. What was the cost?

The City of Ithaca's Stewart Avenue hosts many homes, but few have come close the style, history, or price tag of a property there, formerly owned by a famed science writer. Built in 1926 for use by the longest-running honor society at Cornell ...

2. OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company

OpenAI said it will be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company.

3. Interactive visualization highlights human impact on Earth's biomass

The “BioCubes” project, developed by physicist Brice Ménard and graphic artist Nikita Shtarkman at Johns Hopkins University, visualizes the growing dominance of human-made materials over natural biomass on Earth. This striking depiction reveals the ...