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Jack Dorsey's Decentralized Twitter Alternative Bluesky Debuts on the App Store

Bluesky features separate tabs for home, search, and notifications, as well as a repost feature – the interface is very similar to Twitter. It also allows you to post messages of up to 256 characters and attach photos.

Instagram Co-Founders Introduce Artifact, a New AI-Powered News App

Artifact's features can be compared to TikTok as it uses a similar algorithmic approach to content but applies it to its text only, focusing on what users like instead of showing them content based on who they follow.

A Sealed First-Generation iPhone Was Sold for Over $63,000 at Auction

The past owner of the smartphone, a cosmetic tattoo artist from New Jersey, Karen Green, received the iPhone as a gift over 15 years ago. She never opened it as back then, she was a Verizon customer while the phone only ran on AT&T's network.

Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Write 4,000-Character Tweets

Paid Twitter Blue subscribers can now create tweets of up to 4,000 characters long instead of the previous 280-character limit. As of now, the new feature is available in the United States only.
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Nokia Redesigns Its Iconic Logo for the First Time in Nearly 60 Years

The changes are dramatic: gone is the iconic Yale blue typeface, which was firmly associated with Nokia and the brand slogan Connecting People. The new logo consists of five different shapes that form the word NOKIA.

Boston Dynamics Demonstrated Its Atlas Robot's Skills at a Mock Construction Site

In Boston Dynamics' latest video, their humanoid robot Atlas is shown hopping around a mock construction site doing manual labor, tossing tool bags to the worker, and building a little pathway to bridge a gap between itself and the worker.

NVIDIA's Broadcast Tool Can Simulate Eye Contact Using AI

The company has added the new Eye Contact feature to its NVIDIA Broadcast 1.4 app. It uses artificial intelligence to simulate eye contact with the camera even if the user is looking in another direction.

Apple Expands Emergency SOS via Satellite to Select European Countries

The feature is designed for urgent communication with emergency services in places where there is no cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. In November, it was launched in the United States and Canada, and has now been expanded to several European countries.
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Google's Imagen AI Tool Uses Text Descriptions to Generate Images

To recognize text input, Imagen uses large language models on which natural speech processing algorithms are based. The tech giant claims that its new text-to-image generator has an "unprecedented degree of photorealism."

Reddit User Played Doom Using a Rotary Phone as a Gamepad

The video's author demonstrated the process of playing Doom using a rotary phone as a gamepad but noted that remapping the rotary phone keys for Doom was an "awful experience."

What Your Social Media Posts Say About Your Love Life

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts decided to keep up with the times and conducted a study, the results of which will be of interest to everyone who has a social media account. They found out that the posts on social media speak of users' sex life.

Weekly Fun: Google Earth Timelapse and Colorful Coffins

This week’s stories feature Ross Hall from Auckland, who designs custom-made colorful coffins in the form of Lego or chocolate, and a new feature of Google Earth that shows how the world has changed from 1984 to 2020.

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