TECH

Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 25, 2025
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s largest copper deposits in more

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 21, 2025
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 17, 2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has acquired Hotshot, a startup working on AI-powered video generation tools along the lines of OpenAI’s Sora. Aakash Sastry, Hotshot’s

Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 13, 2025
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her

Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 9, 2025
The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at

The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 5, 2025
AI models are being cranked out at a dizzying pace, by everyone from Big Tech companies like Google to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. Keeping

OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its largest model to date
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . March 1, 2025
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newest, biggest model GPT-4.5, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype, how Anthropic used

Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 25, 2025
Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including

Norway’s 1X is building a humanoid robot for the home
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 21, 2025
Norwegian robotics firm 1X unveiled its latest home robot, Neo Gamma, on Friday. The humanoid system will succeed Neo Beta, which debuted in August. Like

Are your noise-canceling headphones messing with your head?
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . February 17, 2025
We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in such close proximity to your ears. But