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🚀 Best of the best //

The Starship Super Heavy rocket, being developed for manned missions to the Moon and Mars, will make a test orbital flight today.

The reusable rocket system consists of the Ship 24 spacecraft and the Super Heavy launcher. It reaches a height of 120 meters. It is the tallest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built in the world.

The launch will take place from SpaceX's launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas, at 08:00 a.m. CT.

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👐 Handheld gaming on Windows //

Microsoft developers have reportedly created a version of Windows optimized for the Steam Deck handheld console, according to leaked internal videos from a 2022 Microsoft hackathon.

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💸 $776 million for Angry Birds //

The move is aimed at expanding Sega's presence in the mobile gaming market and using Rovio's live-operated mobile game development capabilities to enhance the development of mobile-based versions of its existing games.

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It's Tuesday! What's up?

// DeepMind CEO states that AI has the potential to become self-aware
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// Mighty Starship launch fails for SpaceX
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💳 Apple Card's Golden Goose //

Earn 4.15% APY on your Apple Card savings, deposit daily cash rewards, and enjoy no fees or hidden charges with a maximum balance limit of $250,000.

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👑 Cruising in Electric Extravagance //

The Mercedes-Maybach EQS 680 SUV offers a luxurious and powerful electric driving experience with distinctive Maybach design elements and features, albeit at a steep price point.

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🇮🇳 Apple opens first Store in India //

Apple BKC has been designed to be one of the most energy-efficient Apple Store locations in the world, and it is operationally carbon neutral, running on 100% renewable energy.

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🎞 Firefly in video tools //

Adobe's Firefly AI comes to its Creative Cloud video and audio applications.

The technology will help users edit videos in a few words, generate sounds, music, animated logos, and more. Firefly will also read noscripts and automatically generate storyboards.

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🍏 Sideloading //

Apple will allow users to install third-party App Stores to comply with laws in particular EU countries.

With iOS 17 releasing this summer users can download apps outside of the official App Store, according to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg. But for now it's not clear, how it's gonna work.

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📷 AI in photocontest //

German artist refused photography award after his AI-generated image won top prize.

It's unclear whether the organizers were aware that the image was AI-generated, but the controversy highlights the increasing presence of AI in art and photography.

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Wednesday! Let's go!

// Instagram's 'Link in Bio' now allows up to five links
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// Republicans seek TikTok ban for lawmakers
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🕶️ Lockdown Foils Spies //

Citizen Lab found evidence that Apple's Lockdown Mode blocked an NSO Group spyware attack against Mexican human rights defenders and identified three new zero-day exploits in iOS.

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🌈 Tweaked LGBTQ+ Protections //

Twitter removed protection for trans individuals and has become more hostile towards LGBTQ+ individuals since Elon Musk took over.

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🍏 Apple in the AI race //

Apple has recently released a paper ennoscriptd "FaceLit: Neural 3D Relightable Faces," which outlines a new method for multi-perspective illumination of both real and generated faces.

Twitter users are suggesting that this development could be related to a new photo feature for the iPhone or a warm-up for Apple's entry into the AR/VR.

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🤖 GPT for finance //

Bloomberg has developed its own AI model, BloombergGPT, for finance.

It could write headlines based on annotations and prompt journalists, financiers and other interested parties with the required business information.

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🎥 This video doesn't exist //

It was completely generated by AI.

Video is a result of a new NVIDIA Toronto lab research on text-to-video neural models.

New Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) generate high-quality videos, achieving state-of-the-art performance.

This isn't Hollywood yet, but that's a start.

Text prompt to the video: "A teddy bear is playing the electric guitar, high definition, 4k."

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It's Thursday!

// Google workers criticize AI chatbot Bard
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// Snapchat adds live location sharing and ChatGPT integration for all users
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🌑 NASA's Lunar Simulation in a Diving Tank //

NASA is building a Moon replica in a diving tank to prepare astronauts for their historic Artemis 3 mission.

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💸 Reaping the Benefits //

Meta will pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit over Facebook's granting of access to private user data to third parties without their consent, and eligible users can claim a portion of the settlement.

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