Do you burn through notebooks and find yourself constantly having to buy new ones? Check out Rocketbook; it might just be the answer to your problems.
Freshly launched on Indiegogo this week, the notebook is designed to be completely reusable — paper and all. Once you fill up all the pages, the Rocketbook is able to digitize all your notes and store them in the cloud, and then clear all the pages so you can write on them again.
How is such a thing possible? Well for starters, the pages of the notebook (which are just regular-ol’ paper, by the way) feature a set of seven different symbols. These symbols can be mapped to different functions, such as saving to Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs, or even just sending the document to your email inbox. Mark one of the symbols on the page, and when you scan it with Rocketbook’s accompanying smartphone app, a digitized copy of the page will instantly be sent to the cloud storage platform of your choice. Check out the video to see it in action.
Now, here’s where it gets crazy: After you’ve scanned, digitized, and saved your notes, you can just pop Rocketbook in the microwave for 30 seconds and it’ll erase all your notes — so long as you use the right type of pen, that is. Rocketbook’s creators encourage users to write in the notebook with Pilot FriXion pens, which use a special kind of thermo-sensitive ink that turns clear when exposed to high temperatures. Rocketbook is designed to be completely microwave safe, so unlike other notebooks, it won’t melt or catch on fire when you nuke it.
Despite launching just a couple days ago, the project has already fulfilled its $20K funding goal, and has nearly a month to go before the campaign is over. You can lock down a Rocketbook of your own for a pledge of just $25, and assuming everything goes as planned, the company expects to ship the first units in July.
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.