✈️ Durov Offers Free IVF Using His Sperm

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced he will pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for unmarried women aged 37 or younger who use his sperm. The 41‑year‑old billionaire, who has already fathered over 100 children, calls the offer a way to help solve the global fertility crisis.

The program is managed by Moscow's Altravita Clinic, which promotes it as a unique chance to use donor material from a famous entrepreneur. Durov is covering the full cost of the treatments, which usually run around $5,000.

What do you think?

❤️ — Marketing
🔥 — He's just... being Pavel!

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❤️ World Record for Longest Remote Robotic Surgery Set

A surgeon in Kuwait successfully operated on a patient in Brazil, connecting two rooms across 12,035 km in near real‑time.

This achievement sets a new world record for the most significant distance between a doctor and a patient during a robotic operation.

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😷 Up to 400 Million Face Long-COVID Brain Symptoms

A review published Monday in Nature Reviews Disease Primers highlights the massive global impact of long COVID on the brain. It estimates that 80 to 400 million people worldwide suffer from lasting neurological issues months or years after infection.

The study notes that symptoms often continue for at least three months. Common problems include memory loss, anxiety, depression, headaches, and sleep disturbances. The condition affects 5–20% of general cases and up to 50% of hospitalized patients.

Have you experienced Long-COVID yourself?

🔥 — Yes
❤️ — No

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🔍 Samsung to Upgrade Bixby with Perplexity for Galaxy S26

Samsung is preparing a major update for Bixby ahead of next year's Galaxy S26 launch. While Galaxy AI is powerful, the Bixby assistant has lagged, currently leaving complex questions to Google Gemini while it handles only basic tasks.

Reports suggest Samsung will partner with Perplexity to solve this. Under the new plan, Bixby would still manage system settings. At the same time, Perplexity would handle complex, web‑based queries with citations, similar to Apple's integration with ChatGPT.

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🐈 Rediscovery Of Flat-Headed Cat In Thailand

Researchers from Thailand have confirmed the rediscovery of the endangered flat-headed cat in Princess Sirindhorn Wildlife Sanctuary using camera traps that captured 29 detections in 2024–2025, including a mother with a kitten, proving that a small but breeding population has survived in the country after almost 30 years without confirmed records.

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🦮 Gamify Dog Walking with AR

Wabisabi's Doggo Quest turns dog walks into a game using SnapML for dog recognition and AR visual effects. The app tracks your routes and steps, rewarding you with virtual items like bones as you walk.

Available for Spectacles: AR glasses by Snap Inc.

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🦣 Comet Explosion May Have Triggered Mammoth Extinction

Scientists say they've found their strongest evidence yet that a fragmented comet exploded over Earth nearly 13,000 years ago, possibly contributing to the extinction of mammoths, mastodons, and other Ice Age megafauna.

Researchers identified shocked quartz—one of the clearest markers of cosmic impacts—at three Clovis-era sites: Murray Springs (Arizona), Blackwater Draw (New Mexico), and Arlington Canyon (California).

Electron microscopy revealed fractures filled with melted silica, formed under extreme heat and pressure far beyond what volcanoes or human fires could produce, supporting the comet-impact hypothesis.

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💊 AI-Designed Drug Nears Phase 3 Trials

Insilico Medicine says its drug Rentosertib—the first medicine fully discovered and designed using artificial intelligence—could enter Phase 3 clinical trials within the next 18 months, marking the final stage before regulatory approval.

The drug targets idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly lung disease that kills around 40,000 people in the US each year. In a Phase 2 trial involving 71 patients in China, Rentosertib improved lung function with few side effects.

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🥇 Lego Unveils Smart Bricks At CES

Lego has introduced new Smart Bricks with built‑in microchips at CES, calling them the company's biggest evolution in decades. A classic 2x4 brick can detect NFC tags in special tiles and minifigures, track the movement and position of other Smart Bricks, and add light and sound effects to physical builds.
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In Lego Star Wars sets, the system can, for example, play "The Imperial March" when Emperor Palpatine is seated on his throne, let ships "battle" each other, and make cars register who crosses the finish line first or trigger an alert when they flip over. The new bricks form a Bluetooth mesh network and are set to debut in Star Wars kits starting March 1, 2026.

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🖥 Gaming Industry Faces Memory Crunch

The global gaming industry is heading into a memory crisis as surging chip prices threaten delays to next-generation consoles and force developers to rethink game design. Samsung's 16GB DDR5-5600 memory now sells for about $207 in early January 2026, up nearly sixfold from roughly $35 in December 2024, according to Korea's Danawa platform.

The shortage is caused by Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron shifting production toward high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators instead of standard DRAM used in gaming hardware.

"In 2026, there's going to be issues around semiconductor supplies, and it's going to affect everyone," Samsung global marketing president Wonjin Lee said this week.

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🎮 Fortnite x South Park Goes Live

The long-rumored Fortnite × South Park collab is official: Epic dropped a short film that shows the boys being sucked into the metaverse and teases new gameplay.

The event adds a new five-player Battle Royale mode, a free mini-pass through which players can earn South Park cosmetics, and at least five skins in the item shop — plus Wonkeeland on the BR map is temporarily rebranded as Cartmanland.

The crossover content and limited-time mode run through February 5.

Do you play Fortnite?

❤️ — Yes, of course!
😎 — No, it's for kids
🎃 — I don't like video games

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♻️ Urban Air Packed With Micro- And Nanoplastics

Chinese researchers at the Institute of Earth Environment report that urban air in Guangzhou and Xi'an contains roughly 140,000–180,000 microplastic and nanoplastic particles per cubic metre—levels far higher than those previously measured and, the team says, up to a million times greater than estimates from traditional methods.

The study is also the first to detect nanoplastics as small as ~200 nanometres in complex environmental samples, identifying city atmospheres as primary reservoirs of plastic particulates and underlining the need to reassess how airborne plastic pollution is monitored.

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