Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Archives: Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants

Scientists know enough about exoplanets to speculate about how simple plants might arise on them. But don't count on them being green.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Archives: What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?

Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marc Andreessen Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for His Kid

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 Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Archives: A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis

Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard

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