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Snap Is Doing What Twitter Can’t
As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap’s membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which is officially halfway to its goal of 10 million. Bloomberg reports that…
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Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry to Earth
After manufacturing crystals of an HIV drug in space, the first orbital factory is stuck in orbit after being denied reentry back to Earth due to safety concerns. The U.S. Air Force denied a request from Varda Space Industries to land its in-space manufacturing capsule at a Utah training area, while the U.S. Federal Aviation…
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The Usual Suspects of Big Tech Claim AI Will Kill Us All or End World Hunger
Apparently Elon Musk is citing a ‘threat to humanity,’ while Mark Zuckerberg is defending his not-so-open open source AI tools.
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Satellite Photos Reveal Extent of Floods at This Year’s Burning Man
Tens of thousands of Burning Man attendees in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert had to trudge through rain and mud last Friday and into last weekend after an unusual bout of rain in the region. The Black Rock Playa, where the festivities are held each year, is a flat expanse that hosted a prehistoric lake over…