On June 17th we published a post about controversy surrounding recent developments relating to one of Google's AI projects, LaMDA. To summarize, an engineer who had been working on the AI became convinced that LaMDA had achieved a kind of person-hood. After Google placed him on administrative leave, he made his point of view public.

On June 11th, The Washington Post published a story about an AI engineer at Google named Blake Lemoine. Lemoine worked on a language AI system at Google called LaMDA. Convinced that the AI had become self-aware, Blake reported his suspicions to his supervisors.

Did you notice the power's out? As of the publication of this post, roughly 31 thousand people in Butler and Hamilton counties are without power, according to WCPO. That's a small fraction of the total 166 thousand people who have gone without power over the past 24 hours.

On Wednesday, Liv McMahon of the BBC reported on the acquisition of a quantum computer by the British Ministry of Defense. The computer is the first of its kind to be owned by the UK government. Produced by Orca Computing, the computer will be applied to solving problems relating to national defense and security.

On Friday of last week, WLWT reported on an project through the University of Cincinnati's 1819 Innovation Hub, called Clean Earth Rovers. Clean Earth Rovers is a tech start-up that's developing a line of autonomous marine vehicles, designed to clean up coastal waterways and rivers.

Earlier this year during some unusually harsh winter weather, we published a post detailing the problems that extreme cold can cause in your hardware. We also discussed some measures that tech savvy firms can take to protect themselves.

With June just around the corner, many may be wondering if they should take any preventative measures for the summer heat.

Imagine being able to walk into a shop and then pay for your things without ever taking out cash or a card. You may soon be able to accomplish this with MasterCard's new payment system. As reported in CNBC, this newly piloted payment processor would be able to run transactions using data connected to a person's body: "At checkout, users will be able to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card.

This week, a bipartisan bill was introduced in the Senate, which aims to break up Google's ad division. As reported in The Verge, the bill would induce Google's parent company "to divest majorities of its digital advertising business. Google’s advertising marketplace rakes in billions each quarter for the company, pulling in $54 billion across Search, YouTube, and its ad networks in the first quarter of this year alone.

President Joe Biden recently visited Cincinnati to meet with manufacturers, according to WCPO.  WCPO later reported that additive manufacturing, known more colloquially as 3D printing, was the focus of the visit.

As we pointed out in our previous post on the subject, 3D printers are automated manufacturing devices capable of producing a variety of objects based on digitally uploaded diagrams.

"We all know the feeling. You're scrolling through your phone, and there it is. An ad that you can tie back to a recent conversation with a friend." Thus begins a recent article from Kim Komando, a radio show host who focuses on technology. Advertisers have used user meta-data for a long time to market their products, but they're not the only ones who may be tracking you.