Tech & Science Daily podcast: Supernatural’s Misha Collins on how volunteers are de-mining Ukraine

Plus, the wild AI camera that takes photos using GPS data
Supernatural's Misha Collins on how volunteers are de-mining Ukraine
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Supernatural actor Misha Collins, who has just become an ambassador of Ukraine’s official fundraising platform United 24, has been supporting the de-mining effort in the country.

This week he spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky about the work to remove mines from all over the country.

Misha tells Tech & Science Daily how significant the de-mining operation is, and how much of Ukraine is affected.

A Danish designer has created an artificial intelligence camera that can take pictures using GPS data and a simple description of the scene.

Bjørn Karmann created Paragraphica
Bjørn Karmann

Bjørn Karmann created Paragraphica, a camera-style device with no lenses, which uses text prompts and physical dials to alter specific parameters, before generating an image using AI.

Bjørn tells Tech & Science Daily how the device works, and why he decided to create it.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a superplume of water spurting out of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

The water stream being thrust into space is more than 6,000 miles long; equivalent to flying from the UK to Japan.

An app developer claims Reddit could charge him $20million per year to keep his app running.

Christian Selig who owns the app Apollo, which offers an alternative interface for Reddit users, alleges it is because the website is hiking the cost of API requests, the technical term for when the app tries to access information from the website.

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