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🍪 Researchers craft a fully edible battery

Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan have created a rechargeable and edible battery using non-toxic, edible materials, which could replace toxic toy batteries and make miniature electronic devices used by doctors much safer for internal use.

🔒 Pornhub cuts off Utah. Utah discovers VPNs

PornHub has blocked access to its website from Utah after the state discovered and banned the use of VPNs to access inappropriate content, highlighting the ongoing battle over internet censorship and privacy.

🎵 Google makes its text-to-music AI public

Google has released an experimental AI tool called MusicLM, which can turn text descriptions into music, but its broader challenge of generative music may face legal and ethical challenges in the future.

🤖 Google launches new AI PaLM 2 in attempt to regain leadership of the pack

Google launches new AI language model, PaLM2, in attempt to regain leadership in artificial intelligence, with claims that it outperforms other leading systems on certain tasks.

🚀 Vast says it will launch its first space station in 2025 on a Falcon 9

Private space station company Vast announces plans to launch its first space station, "Haven-1," in August 2025 on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and seeks to sell four crewed seats for the mission, with plans to potentially meet NASA's needs and launch a larger "Starship-class module" by 2028.

🕵 Gmail can now scan the dark web for your email address

Google is adding a dark web reporting tool to all Gmail accounts in the US, with plans to expand to select international markets, allowing users to check if their email addresses have been published on the dark web and advising on steps to take to improve their online security.

💸 The Pixel Fold is Google’s $1,800 entry into folding phones

Google has announced its first folding device, the Pixel Fold, which transforms from a compact smartphone into a small tablet and is set to compete with Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 4 at a price of $1,799.

💬 AI gains “values” with Anthropic’s new Constitutional AI chatbot approach

AI startup Anthropic has revealed the principles behind its "ConstitutionalAI" training approach, which provides its Claude chatbot with explicit "values" to guide AI decision-making, drawing on the UN Declaration of Human Rights and even Apple's terms of service to promote transparency, safety and helpfulness without relying on human feedback to rate responses.

🦠 Microbes discovered that can digest plastics at low temperatures

Scientists have found microbes that can digest plastics at temperatures as low as 15C, offering potential for breakthroughs in microbial recycling, as previously discovered microbes can typically only work at temperatures above 30C, which makes industrial practice prohibitively expensive.

🔬 Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum

An experiment using qubits 30 meters apart has demonstrated that Einstein was wrong about local realism in quantum mechanics, with the experiment being the first to separate qubits by enough distance to ensure that light isn't fast enough to travel between them while measurements are made, potentially aiding future quantum computing efforts.

🔍 Google’s new Perspectives search helps you find actual human information online

Google is launching a new section called "Perspectives" on its search results page, aimed at making it easy to find takes from individual people on subjects all over the web.

🚀 Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with fusion power starting in 2028

Helion Energy has announced an agreement with Constellation to provide Microsoft with electricity from its first fusion power plant by 2028, which has a power generation target of 50MW or greater and would represent a significant milestone for the fusion industry as a whole.

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