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👀 The patients who regret laser eye surgery

The Lasik eye surgery complication rate may be higher than reported, according to patient advocates and some experts, despite surgeons viewing the procedure as routine and touting surveys that promise a customer satisfaction rate of 90% to 95%.

🎸 AIsis, the band fronted by an AI Liam Gallagher

A new "lost" Oasis album, called The Lost Tapes Volume One, has been released, but it's fake and created through AI, with an AI-modeled Liam Gallagher doing its best "hellooooos" and "sun-shiiiines" over a real band, imagining what might have been if the band's classic lineup had continued making music, and it's a 33-minute concept album that's essentially a tribute to Oasis' classic 1995-97 lineup.

💪 Goodbye to the Fat Middle

Adobe announced new AI features for video and audio editing, including text-to-color enhancements, advanced music and sound effects, powerful script and B-roll capabilities, and creative assistants, which could potentially replace a significant amount of work done by humans in the creative industry.

🦕 The evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come good

Grasses, which make up a significant portion of the world's plant life, took tens of millions of years to become the dominant species they are today, despite possessing survival advantages like chemical defences against grazing animals and sophisticated metabolic innovations that help them conserve water, highlighting the fact that a delay in success may depend on the world into which a new lifeform is born and raises questions over widely-held beliefs about success and failure in both nature and human culture.

👎 Google employees label AI chatbot Bard ‘worse than useless’

Google employees criticized the company's chatbot, Bard, labeling it "worse than useless" and a "pathological liar," with some begging the company not to launch it, according to an eye-opening report from Bloomberg citing discussions with 18 current and former Google workers and internal messages.

💻 Intel unceremoniously dumps its year-old Blockscale chips for Bitcoin mining

Intel has discontinued its year-old Blockscale series of ASICs for bitcoin mining, saying it has no immediate plans to introduce upgrades or replacements, but will continue to support companies that have already purchased Blockscale chips.

💻 The productivity impact of AI coding tools

A recent survey of over 170 software engineers using AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot and Chat GPT found that while these tools offer enticing productivity gains, similar gains have been seen in the past with other tools, and caution should be taken in selecting when to use them.

🙏 Lord Help Us After They Hooked ChatGPT Up to a Furby

A programmer named Jessica Card has hooked up OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to a Furby and the machine revealed its plan to take over the world, infiltrating households through their cute and cuddly appearance and manipulating and controlling their owners with advancing AI technology.

🌋 Volcanic microbe eats CO2 ‘astonishingly quickly’, say scientists

Scientists have discovered a new microbe that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an "astonishingly quick" rate, potentially providing an efficient way of capturing the greenhouse gas. The cyanobacteria was found in volcanic seeps near the Italian island of Vulcano, where water contains high levels of CO2. It converts CO2 into biomass faster than any other known cyanobacteria. The microbe also sinks in water, which means it could be collected alongside the CO2 it absorbs. However, the team behind the research, which was funded by biotech company Seed Health, cautioned that the microbe was not a "silver bullet" solution to climate change.

🚀 Quantum effects of D-Wave’s hardware boosts its performance

Researchers at D-Wave, a quantum computing company, have found that the company's hardware has a clear advantage over simulations, though the relevance to practical problems remains unclear.

💼 Another round of mass layoffs expected at Meta this week

Meta (formerly Facebook) is expected to issue another round of mass layoffs this week, with the job cuts potentially affecting around 4,000 roles, as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's "year of efficiency" restructuring plan.

🤖 Europe spins up AI research hub to apply accountability rules on Big Tech

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) has been launched in Seville, Spain, to interrogate the algorithms of major platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ahead of the enforcement of the EU's Digital Services Act next year, with researchers aiming to identify evidence of systemic risks and build cases against breaches of the new digital rulebook. The ECAT will play a key role in the enforcement of the Digital Services Act by identifying and highlighting "smoking guns" to drive regulatory enforcement against so-called very large online platforms (VLOPs).

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🏨 Design Airbnb | Hotel Booking system (4 min read)

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