🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The Nullarbor Plain of Australia covers 100,000 square miles (160,900 km) without a tree.
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🚀 On February 13, 2012...
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The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
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Oxford complexity scientist Doyne Farmer proposes a $100m global “super-simulator” modelling millions of firms’ real behaviour to forecast crises and climate transitions. Using agent-based, data-driven models, he argues it could vastly outperform traditional equilibrium economics and guide faster, cheaper decarbonisation.
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 is a powerful new AI video model that fuses text, images, video, and audio prompts to generate 15-second, physics-aware clips, rivaling Sora and Veo. It raises big questions about copyright, deepfakes, and future creative jobs.
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OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark runs on Cerebras chips, not Nvidia, delivering about 1,000 tokens/second—around 15x faster than its predecessor—prioritizing coding speed over depth. It’s a text-only research preview for Pro users, reflecting OpenAI’s push to diversify AI hardware.
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Doctors at Northwestern removed a man’s destroyed, infected lungs, then kept him alive lungless for 48 hours using a custom artificial lung circuit, until transplant. The device safely managed heart pressures and circulation, offering hope for otherwise “unsalvageable” ARDS patients.
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Ars Technica tested Chrome’s new Auto Browse AI agent on varied tasks. It excelled at structured browsing (shopping, power plans, simple games, playlists via Spotify) but failed at Gmail data extraction, spreadsheets, YouTube Music, hover‑menus, and long‑duration monitoring—showing promise, yet unreliable for important work.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean has exactly two keys on his keyboard: `0` and `1`.
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⭐ 4100, 🖖 259
An OBS plugin for removing background in portrait images (video), making it easy to replace the background when recording or streaming.
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⭐ 11662, 🖖 858
Mobile and Web client for Codex and Claude Code, with realtime voice, encryption and fully featured
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⭐ 2707, 🖖 361
The 100 line AI agent that solves GitHub issues or helps you in your command line. Radically simple, no huge configs, no giant monorepo—but scores >74% on SWE-bench verified!
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⭐ 5586, 🖖 594
Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services
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⭐ 311, 🖖 3
Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
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