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Maths and music enthusiasts, get ready to be awed. Integral House, an architectural marvel inspired by calculus, is on sale for Β£11.4m. With curved walls and a concert space, this house is not just for numbers nerds, but also a great venue for entertaining (and calculating tips).
Remember when we thought video calls would revolutionize everything? Turns out, all we got was slightly better video chat. Now that we're back to gathering in person, video chat apps are just utilities. It's like the time we hyped up fax machines and then moved on.
TikTok users in the UK are facing a "less safe" and "more toxic" version of the app compared to their European counterparts. Looks like the Brits will be getting a royal snub from TikTok. Perhaps they can compensate with some extra tea and biscuits?
YouTube is testing AI-generated video summaries. Finally, we can watch a 10-minute video in just 10 seconds! Now, if only there was an AI that summarized books, we could finally clear that towering "to be read" pile on our nightstands.
NASA is planning a mission to a $10,000-quadrillion asteroid, which is basically a giant metal space rock. They're not planning to mine it though, just study it. Maybe they just want to know if it's worth getting a metal detector for their next asteroid excursion.
Waymo and Cruise can now charge for their robotaxis in San Francisco 24/7. San Francisco officials have complained about the disruption caused by driverless vehicles, but at least they don't have to worry about getting stuck behind a slow-moving self-driving car during their morning commute anymore!
Ghent University is launching a literature course centered around Taylor Swift's lyrics and their connections to classic English literature. Aptly titled "Literature: Taylor's Version," the course aims to explore the intersections between Swift's work and texts from different time periods. Swifties and skeptics alike are eager to see the outcome!
Prospectors are on the hunt for "white hydrogen," a naturally occurring source of clean energy. The accidental discovery of hydrogen in Mali has sparked interest worldwide, with potential reservoirs in the US, Australia, and Europe. It's like stumbling upon a hidden treasure, but instead of gold, it's gas!
SEC chair Gary Gensler warns that AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, proving once again that robots are just as capable of messing up our economy as humans. Looks like we can add "AI-powered market crashes" to our list of worries.
Bugs in the Moovit app allowed hackers to snag free rides and personal information from users. They could even take over accounts and credit cards, making it the perfect attack - for the hackers, at least. Maybe Moovit should consider rebranding as "FreeRide-It".
☠️ Postmortem of the day
E-commerce site went down after a sudden traffic spike caused by a marketing campaign. The outage was caused by a configuration error in cluster resource management which prevented more service instances from starting even though hardware resources were available.
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