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⛵️ Space sail

NASA → successfully deployed its Advanced Composite Solar Sail System in space and is set to begin maneuvering tests to gather data for future solar sail missions.

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🤖 Meet Neo Beta: The Future of Home Robotics

1X has unveiled Neo Beta, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for home use. Neo Beta → is engineered with muscle-like anatomy, allowing it to perform tasks with human-like strength and gentleness.

It can walk, jog, climb stairs, and navigate spaces naturally, making it ideal for various tasks around the home.

While initially focused on industrial applications like security, logistics, and manufacturing, Neo Beta has the potential to assist with household chores such as cleaning and organizing. This prototype represents a leap forward in bringing humanoid robots into everyday life.

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It's Tuesday! And the news is:

Lenovo to launch affordable Copilot Plus PCs at IFA 2024:
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Windows 11 overtakes Windows 10 as the top OS for PC gamers on Steam:
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🦻 Eavesdropping

Reports suggest that social media platforms might be using smartphones to listen → to users' conversations for targeted advertising purposes.

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🐶 To me!

A new version → of Tesla's Smart Summon feature not only brings the vehicle to the owner's location but also enables it to park itself.

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It's Wednesday! And the news is:

Instagram rolls out comments for Stories with anti-trolling feature:
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Microsoft criticizes Apple’s App Store policies, claims they hinder cloud gaming services:
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🎀 Barbiecore Revival: HMD Unveils the Barbie Phone

HMD Global, in collaboration with Mattel, has launched the Barbie Phone →, a flip phone designed to reduce screen time. This pink clamshell device allows users to make calls, send text messages, and take photos with its basic 0.3MP camera, but it lacks access to social media and an app store.

With its tagline, "more beach, less browsing," the Barbie Phone aims to curb smartphone and social media addiction, aligning with a growing trend among Gen Z consumers choosing "dumb phones" for a simpler digital life.

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It's Thursday! And the news is:

Opera for Android adds AI-powered image context understanding:
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Microsoft's new AI computers struggle with gaming performance:
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Apple to redesign iPhone 16 cases for new Capture button, featuring "integrated design":
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🧠 The First Robot Powered by Human Brain Cells

Chinese scientists at Tianjin University have developed a humanoid robot with a brain made from human stem cells.

Using advanced brain-on-a-chip technology, the robot → learns and adapts to its surroundings through electrical signals, allowing it to perform tasks like gripping objects and avoiding obstacles without pre-programmed instructions.

This innovation not only opens the door for hybrid human-robot intelligence but also holds promise for future medical applications, including brain repair through organoid transplantation. Researchers believe this could be the future of brain-computer interfaces.

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❤️ Safer&stronger

Pavel Durov first commented → on his recent detention in France. He revealed that officials had suggested he could be held personally liable for illegal activities carried out on Telegram by its users, as the platform had not responded to certain legal requests from France.

Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance,


Pavel Durov stated, adding that as a French citizen, he has frequently visited the French consulate in Dubai.

Pavel Durov pointed out that Telegram had previously collaborated with French authorities, assisting in the creation of a hotline to combat terrorism threats.

However, he criticized the authorities' recent step, arguing that it is "a misguided approach" to hold a CEO accountable for crimes committed by third parties on the platform.

If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself.


Pavel Durov explained:

Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools.


Pavel Durov also highlighted the difficulty of balancing privacy and security, especially in regions with conflicting legal frameworks and technological limitations. He expressed a commitment to working with regulators but emphasized that Telegram would prioritize its principles, which are centered around protecting user privacy.

Addressing the platform's growing user base, which now reaches 950 million, Durov acknowledged that Telegram's rapid growth has led to problems, especially in combating criminal use of the platform.

That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. 


Pavel Durov expressed hope that recent events would "result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger".

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It's Friday! And the news is:

Survey reveals quarter of 𝕏 advertisers plan to cut spending:
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YouTube develops AI tools to protect creators from voice and deepfake imitation:
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🤖 Engineering the Future

The Durov’s Code team had the privilege of sitting down with Khalifa Al Qama, Director of Dubai Future Labs, to explore how their groundbreaking innovations are turning Dubai into the City of Tomorrow.

From robotics to smart cities, discover how the lab is not just imagining the future, but engineering it.

See more photos inside! →

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🫰 From an area of criticism into one of praise

Pavel Durov announced → in his channel a number of major changes regarding moderation on the platform. Thus, the messenger has indeed finally removed the "People Nearby" feature. According to the head of Telegram, it was used by scammers and less than 0.1% of real users.

→ The feature will be replaced by a new option "Businesses Nearby", where verified and legitimate companies will be presented, which will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their catalogs and accept payments.

→ The option to upload new media files to the Telegraph service was also disabled, as it was being used by anonymous attackers.

Separately, Durov emphasized that the vast majority of Telegram users are not associated with criminal activity, but a minority of 0.001% creates a bad reputation for the entire platform.

Therefore, the Telegram team intends to improve moderation this year to protect the interests of nearly a billion users and make moderation a point of pride rather than criticism of the messenger.

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It's Saturday! And the news is:

Apple Watch Series 10 to include sleep apnea detection, but feature may be delayed:
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Bluetooth 6.0 boosts security and precision for device tracking:
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🤍 So supportive!

Elon Musk has reacted → to Pavel Durov's post detailing the events in France

It was alarming to see. Glad you're ok.


Musk was among the first major global figures to harshly criticize "freedom of speech" in France amid the arrest of the head of Telegram and called for his release.

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🤩 A system of three “shells”

Jony Ive debuts outerwear collection in collaboration with Moncler.

The collection → introduces a system of interchangeable "shells" and a magnetic Duo button that highlights Ive's attention to details.

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