This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 22)

The Messy, Secretive Reality Behind OpenAI's Bid to Save the World Karen Hao MIT Technology Review "There is a misalignment between what the company publicly espouses and how it operates behind closed doors. Over time, it has allowed a fierce competitiveness and mounting pressure for ever more funding to erode its founding ideals of transparency, openness, and collaboration." The Studs on This Punk Bracelet Are Actually Microphone-Jamming Ultrasonic Speakers Andrew Liszewski Gizmodo "You can prevent facial recognition cameras from identifying you by wearing face paint, masks, or sometimes just a pair of oversized sunglasses. Keeping conversations private from an ever-growing number of microphone-equipped devices isn't quite as easy, but researchers have created what could be the first wearable that actually helps increase your privacy." Iron Man Dreams Are Closer to Becoming a Reality Thanks to This New Jetman Dubai Video Julia Alexander The Verge "Tony Stark may have destroyed his Iron Man suits in Iron Man 3 (only to bring out a whole new line in Avengers: Age of Ultron), but Jetman Dubai's Iron Man-like dreams of autonomous human flight are realer than ever. A new video published by the company shows pilot Vince Reffet using a jet-powered, carbon-fiber suit to launch off the ground and fly 6,000 feet in the air."