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As Google faces a massive antitrust lawsuit, revelations surrounding the case have presented us with a glimpse into an alternate reality. Microsoft reportedly discussed selling Bing to Apple just a few years ago, and if the deal went through, Google would have no longer been the default search engine on iPhone.
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Bloomberg reports that the discussions between the two tech giants occurred in 2020, citing anonymous sources. According to the outlet, Microsoft execs met with Eddy Cue, Apple’s services chief, to crack a deal that would see the company take control of Bing from Microsoft in an acquisition. Cue is credited with brokering the agreement between Apple and Google to get the search engine as the default on the iPhone. However, it doesn’t appear that these talks with Microsoft reached any actionable stage, and were mainly exploratory.
Microsoft declined to comment while Apple did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request.
News of these potentially paradigm-shifting conversations occurs as Google is embroiled in an antitrust case in which the tech company began squaring up against the Department of Justice earlier this month. The Justice Department is arguing that Google is the primary search engine amongst the public, in part, because its parent company pays big tech actors like Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla to place the product as the premiere web crawler in their devices and browsers. These payouts, the Department argues, are anticompetitive as they discourage other tech companies from developing their own search engine in a marketplace where a multibillion-dollar war chest is necessary to play the game.
Bing has always been the punchline of search engines. An iPhone with Bing feels like an uncanny amalgamation of a piece of genuinely world-changing technology and a search engine desperately clinging to relevancy—at least in 2020. Bing’s recently seen increased attention (and traffic) as Microsoft poured billions into a deal to integrate OpenAI’s tech with its products. The two companies, however, are reportedly on shaky ground. Microsoft doesn’t technically own OpenAI but offers cloud computing infrastructure in exchange for a hefty chunk of profit until the tech startup pays back Microsoft’s investment.
Update September 29 11:22 a.m. ET: This article was updated to include Microsoft declining to comment.
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In order to be able to carry heavier payloads through deep space, NASA designed a lightweight rocket engine nozzle made of aluminum that can still withstand the heat of launches.
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NASA recently tested two 3D printed nozzles at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, proving that they can operate in the most demanding deep space environments, the space agency announced. Under a partnership with Elementum 3D, the NASA-funded Reactive Additive Manufacturing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or RAMFIRE, project focuses on advancing lightweight, additively manufactured aluminum rocket nozzles.
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The nozzles operated for nearly 10 minutes during multiple hot fire tests using liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, as well as liquid oxygen and liquid methane fuel configurations with pressure chambers in excess of 825 pounds per square inch. “This test series marks a significant milestone for the nozzle,” Paul Gradl, RAMFIRE principal investigator at NASA’s Marshall, said in a statement. “After putting the nozzle through the paces of a demanding hot-fire test series, we’ve demonstrated the nozzle can survive the thermal, structural, and pressure loads for a lunar lander scale engine.”
Rocket engine nozzles are made of a variety of materials, including graphite, ceramics or refractory metals. Aluminum has a major advantage over other metals as it is lower in density and is therefore high strength while being lightweight. The only problem is that aluminum has a very low tolerance to extreme heat, and that’s why it is typically not used for additive manufacturing of rocket engine parts.
RAMFIRE set out to create a weldable type of aluminum that is heat resistant enough for use on rocket engines. The RAMFIRE nozzles are designed with small internal channels that keep them cool enough to prevent melting.
The ability to manufacture lightweight rocket components capable of withstanding high structural loads would allow NASA to send more cargo to deep space destinations. “Mass is critical for NASA’s future deep space missions,” John Vickers, principal technologist for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, said in a statement. “Projects like this mature additive manufacturing along with advanced materials, and will help evolve new propulsion systems, in-space manufacturing, and infrastructure needed for NASA’s ambitious missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.”

The RAMFIRE nozzle is also built as a single piece using advanced 3D printing methods, requiring far fewer bonds and significantly reducing manufacturing time, according to NASA. Regular manufacturing, on the other hand, may require as many as a thousand individually joined parts. “We’ve reduced the steps involved in the manufacturing process, allowing us to make large-scale engine components as a single build in a matter of days,” Gradl said.
The RAMFIRE aluminum material and additive manufacturing process was also used to construct other rocket components such as a 36-inch diameter aerospike nozzle with complex integral coolant channels and a vacuum-jacketed tank for cryogenic fluid applications.
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Google Maps and Waze have disabled live traffic updates for areas of Israel and the Gaza Strip at the request of the Israeli military, according to a Bloomberg report. The live data tool was removed ahead of a potential ground invasion for the safety of local communities.
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“As we have done previously in conflict situations and in response to the evolving situation in the region, we have temporarily disabled the ability to see live traffic conditions and busyness information out of consideration for the safety of local communities,” a Google spokesperson said to Gizmodo in a statement.
Live traffic information can reveal details about troop movements or where there are masses of people gathered. The technology aggregates anonymous location data to show where there are traffic delays. Last year, Google disabled live traffic in Ukraine as a means to protect citizens when Russian forces invaded the country.
Early in the Ukraine war, civilians used Google Maps to watch the Russian invasion hours before it was announced by Vladimir Putin, according to a Motherboard report. One open-source intelligence (OSINT) expert and college professor saw a traffic jam in Russia using the live traffic layer on Google Maps.
For users in the affected regions of Israel and Gaza, a pop-up on Waze reads, “Due to the security situation: Other drivers, traffic jams, and other alerts will not be displayed,” according to a 9to5Google report. Waze appears to still be fully functional in other parts of Israel, such as Tel Aviv, while live traffic data in Google Maps has been disabled country-wide.
Google Maps and Waze users in the region will still be able to use the apps for navigation and continue to receive estimated times of arrival based on live conditions while omitting specifics about where traffic jams are located.
Apple Maps has also reportedly shut off its live traffic features according to GeekTime, an Israeli tech publication that was the first to spot the incident. Apple did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
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Breaking up is hard to do, especially when there’s a commercial space station on the line. Northrop Grumman is abandoning its plans as a solo contractor to develop a replacement for NASA’s International Space Station and is instead partnering with Voyager Space to work on Starlab.
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Voyager revealed the new collaboration in a press release yesterday, which will see Northrop working with Voyager’s subsidiary NanoRacks. The companies will develop “fully autonomous rendezvous and docking technology” to leverage Northrop’s Cygnus spacecraft for cargo shipments to Voyager’s Starlab space station, which is being constructed in a joint venture with Airbus.
Previously, rumors were swirling that Northrop was putting an end to its contract with NASA to construct a space station that would help fill the void left behind by the ISS at the end of its life. This new partnership confirms that Northrop is indeed forgoing its plans to build a space station independently, but is instead joining another NASA-funded project, with the space agency expressing approval over the new partnership.
“This is a positive development for the commercial low Earth orbit destinations effort,” said NASA director of commercial space Phil McAlister in an agency release yesterday. “Northrop Grumman has determined that its best strategy is to join the NanoRacks team, and NASA respects and supports that decision.”
NASA previously awarded Northrop Grumman with a $125.6 million contract under the Space Act Agreement to build a commercial space station as announced in December 2021. Blue Origin and NanoRacks were also awarded similar contracts at the same time. According to yesterday’s NASA press release, the agency awarded Northrop $36.6 million of the total $125.6 million for the solo space station project thus far.
The news of Northrop’s involvement is good news for the growing momentum surrounding Starlab. According to Voyager’s press release, Northrop’s Cygnus spacecraft will perform resupply missions of pressurized cargo over an initial five-year window once Starlab is in orbit. Voyager describes Starlab as a “fully functional science park” that is planned to launch in its entirety in 2028, hosting a rotating crew of four at a time. The station will reportedly feature crew lodging from Hilton, the American hotel and hospitality company.
NASA announced in 2022 that the storied era of the International Space Station is set to conclude, with plans to decommission the ISS by 2030. After the crew departs, NASA will initiate maneuvers to guide the ISS to its final resting place near Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean, the location most remote from any landmass. In September, NASA put out a request for proposals from U.S.-based private space companies to design a spacecraft to help with that deorbiting plan.
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After rumors began to swirl that Sam Altman’s OpenAI tapped Jony Ive on a secret piece of hardware, the company’s wunderkind CEO says he has no plans to compete with the smartphone market.
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Insider reports that Altman made these remarks at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live event this week—if that event sounds familiar it’s because that’s the same conference X CEO Linda Yaccarino pulled out of. Altman insisted that he isn’t sure what the concept of a piece of OpenAI hardware designed with Apple alum Jony Ive would be, just that he has a lot of vague ideas. The CEO also said that he doesn’t believe any AI device would overshadow the popularity of the iPhone, claiming that he has “no interest in trying to compete with a smartphone” because it’s “phenomenal at what it does.”
“There is something great to do, but I don’t know what it is yet,” Altman said in an interview with Wall Street Journal’s Joana Stern during the conference, as quoted by Insider. “I do think every sufficiently big, new technology enables some kind of new computing platform—[I have] lots of ideas, but all at the very nascent stage.”
News of a potential OpenAI hardware project broke in September when rumors emerged that Altman had approached Apple’s former Chief Design Officer Jony Ive to help on the project. Ive was the lead designer of Apple’s monumental iPhone, iPad, and iMac before eventually leaving the tech giant in 2019 to pursue other ventures after 27 years at the company. Shortly thereafter, reports emerged that OpenAI had raised $1 billion for the hardware project, with backing from Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son—Son also reportedly pitched the involvement of Arm, a chip designer in which SoftBank has a 90% stake. Sources told the Financial Times that Altman and Ive were looking to create a device that provides a more “natural and intuitive way” to interact with AI with one source referring to it as the “iPhone of artificial intelligence.”
The nickname “iPhone of artificial intelligence” coupled with Altman’s comments at the conference indicate that the company isn’t looking to literally reinvent the iPhone. Instead, the project could simply have a goal to devise a transformative piece of AI hardware much in the way the iPhone reinvented cell phones with a touchscreen. While Altman says that he has “no interest” in competing with the smartphone, OpenAI could simply hope to replace the smartphone altogether.
While it’s still not clear what the end goal of the product talks will be (or if anything will come of them at all), it does seem like the general public has become fatigued with the same rollout of a slightly better smartphone slab year after year. Tech market analysis firm Canalys revealed in a report last month that smartphone sales have experienced a significant decline in North America. The report indicates that iPhone sales have fallen 22% year-over-year, with an expected decline of 12% in 2023. The numbers are pretty staggering, especially fresh off the release of the iPhone 15, and could be an indicator that people are getting fatigued of the hottest new tech gadgets.
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It’s only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool.
404 Media reports that a company called Serve Robotics, which contracts out its delivery robots to Uber Eats, recently delivered video footage to the city’s police department to assist with a criminal investigation. The criminal investigation involved one of Serve’s own robots—because someone tried to steal the delivery bot off the street. The LAPD subpoenaed Serve for video footage related to the incident, which the company dutifully delivered. The footage was then used by police to identify two suspects who are said to have been involved in the attempted theft.
While this incident seems pretty innocuous, it certainly raises questions as to how these devices could be used in future criminal investigations. Companies that rely heavily on surveillance-infused autonomous technology—like Tesla—or privatized public safety companies—like Amazon Ring—have already become integral to police investigations across the country. Jason Koebler, who wrote 404’s story on Serve Robotics, argues that autonomous vehicles of the sort typified by Serve Robotics could quite “easily become moving surveillance devices.” Koebler notes that Serve’s bots are recording their surroundings pretty much “constantly,” and that it’s not entirely clear how long the company retains these videos once they’ve been captured.
To explore the issue further, Koebler interviewed a surveillance and privacy expert, Chris Gilliard, of the MacArthur Foundation, who had some thoughts on the matter. Gilliard told Koebler:
… “absent some very specific policies, I think we can fully expect they [companies like Serve Robotics] will continue to share footage with the police. I wonder what would happen if the police came to them and made specific requests about surveillance in a particular area? Would they turn that down? I think these companies need to anticipate these issues and get ahead of them. I highly doubt they have a policy addressing that. I can easily envision that, and I didn’t put the product out. It’s not hyperbolic or farfetched, it’s a thing that’s very likely to happen when police want intelligence as these things proliferate.”
Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted privacy messenger Signal, recently made the argument that AI technology “is surveillance technology”—i.e. new autonomous products rely on constant data collection about their surroundings and their interactions with humans to improve their own operations.
It only stands to reason that law enforcement agencies—which are constantly on the hunt for new tools to make their jobs more efficient and cost-effective—would find autonomous tech appealing because, like other private sector tools, it offloads surveillance work from their own human officers onto the shoulders of everyday products. In short: whether food delivery bots end up being one of those tools or not, the AI revolution only means bigger and “better” surveillance to come.
Correction: This story has been updated to correct the name of the reporter who originally broke the Serve Robotics story.
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