📉 Market turbulence

Virgin Galactic shares plunge over 10% as Branson rules out → further investment.

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📲 A real blue bubble

Beeper Mini is a new full-featured chat app that brings iMessage support to Android. No Apple ID required. Beeper → has even published a proof-of-concept on GitHub, showcasing the functionality for those interested in the app's inner workings.

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💥 2023 through your eyes

ChatGPT was Wikipedia's most viewed → page in 2023. Across all languages that Wikipedia supports, the platform registered more than 78 million pageviews to ChatGPT articles.

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🦾 Breakthrough in Robotic 3D Printing

Researchers at the ETH Zurich in collaboration with Inkbit, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-out, have unveiled a groundbreaking 3D printing technology.

The Inkbit system → resolves the challenge of curing multiple materials with different rates, enabling the printing of highly complex functional robotic systems in a single run.

The inkjet printer makes use of a 3D vision system to compensate for any irregularities in the printed layers, eliminating the need for manual smoothing. The printer is capable of printing with three different materials simultaneously, as well as depositing a wax support material that can be washed off at the end.

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✨ Gemini era

Google launches its largest and ‘most capable’ AI model, Gemini. Unlike other AI models, Gemini → was trained to recognize, understand, and combine different types of information. It promises advanced capabilities and efficiency

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😎 CEO of the Year 2023

TIME → has chosen Sam Altman.

"Altman emerged as one of the most powerful executives in the world, the public face and leading prophet of a technological revolution."

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🔎 Push notification surveillance

Apple and Google have confirmed that governments around the world are utilizing push notifications to spy on → smartphone users.

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✋ Amazon Launches Amazon One: Palm-Scanning for Business ID

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of Amazon One Enterprise →, a new palm-scanning identity service designed to provide seamless authentication for individuals entering physical premises.

The technology expands upon Amazon's existing biometric payment system, Amazon One, by offering secure and convenient access for employees and visitors.

The enterprise-focused solution aims to replace traditional forms of identification, such as badges and passwords, and could potentially enhance security measures for restricted areas and software systems.

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🎨 Color of the year 2024

Pantone announces its 2024 color of the year: Peach Fuzz →

“The color is one whose warm and welcoming embrace conveys a message of compassion and whose cozy sensibility brings people together and enriches the soul,” Laurie Pressman, vice president of the Pantone Color Institute.

Meanwhile, Pantone and Motorola have released special editions of the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra and Motorola Edge 40 Neo smartphones in just the Peach Fuzz color.

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💫 Shake-up

Apple's iPhone and Watch Product Design Chief is set to leave → the company in February.

People familiar with Apple's operations say that Tang Tan made critical decisions about Apple's most important products.

Tan is the second senior executive to announce departure plans recently. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Steve Hotelling, the vice president in charge of hardware technologies such as Touch ID, Face ID and displays, is stepping down.

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