📰 News

🚗 Californians have bought more than 1.5M electric vehicles

California has reached its target of having more than 1.5 million electric vehicles on its roads, two years ahead of schedule, with 21.2% of all new light-duty vehicles sold in the state being plug-in vehicles.

🚀 A Japanese company is about to attempt a Moon landing

Japanese company iSpace is set to attempt a private lunar landing with their Hakuto-R mission, which will begin with a braking maneuver and will adjust its attitude to decelerate and make a soft landing if its mission operators decide to proceed.

🤖 Google’s AI panic forces merger of rival divisions, DeepMind and Brain

Google is merging its two AI teams, DeepMind and Google Brain, in response to the rise of Chat GPT and its failure to excite the world with its AI products.

🍎 Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

Apple has won its antitrust-focused appeals court battle with Epic Games over its App Store policies, though the court upheld the lower court's judgment in favor of Epic under California’s Unfair Competition Law, a major setback for Epic Games and other developers who hoped the ruling could set precedent for further antitrust claims and require Apple to open iOS devices to third-party app stores and payment systems.

🎶 Grimes says anyone can use her voice for AI-generated songs: will share profits

Grimes offers to split 50% of royalties for any successful AI-generated song that uses her voice, claiming she has no label and no legal bindings, though she didn't add much detail as to how arrangements like this would work.

💻 Windows 11’s taskbar is finally getting labels and never combine app icons

Microsoft is adding never combine app icons and labels to the Windows 11 taskbar, after users complained about functionality and lack of basic features.

💰 ChatGPT Is Expensive to Run

OpenAI is spending up to $700,000 a day to maintain its Chat GPT infrastructure, with the cost likely to go higher for the newer GPT-4 model, but Microsoft's proprietary AI chip, Athena, could reduce the cost per chip by a third when compared with Nvidia's offerings, according to sources.

💀 Twitter claims dead celebs are subscribing to Blue from beyond the grave

Twitter has re-verified the accounts of deceased celebrities as part of a wider scheme to restore verification to users with over a million followers, but some have criticized the move as insensitive and unnecessary given that the blue tick has become an unwanted status for some users. Additionally, Twitter's claim that the accounts are verified because the deceased celebrities subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number has been seen as insensitive.

💥 Spacex blew up starship on purpose

SpaceX deliberately blew up its prototype Starship spacecraft during its first orbital test launch after experiencing multiple engine failures, triggering its flight termination system as a precautionary measure, but the company is already looking forward to the next test launch in a few months.

🎶 Google’s AI music generator is like ChatGPT for audio

Google has developed an AI music generator called MusicLM that can produce five-minute songs based on short text descriptions, although legal concerns may prevent the technology from being shared with the public.

🍴 Dinner with Proust: how Alzheimer’s caregivers are pulled into patients’ worlds

A moving personal account in The Guardian discusses the emotional toll that Alzheimer's disease takes on both the patient and their caregiver, particularly in the way it erodes memories shared with loved ones and creates a feeling of invisibility for those looking after Alzheimer's sufferers; the article notes that Alzheimer's, currently affecting well over 16 million Americans, is a daunting and growing global problem, with a projected global cost of treatment at $1.3tn by 2050.

📉 Snapchat sees spike in 1-star reviews as users pan the ‘My AI’ feature

Snapchat's new AI chatbot feature "MyAI" is receiving backlash as users flood the app with negative one-star reviews and complaints, calling for the ability to remove or block the feature, which is pinned to the top of users' Chat feed and cannot be removed or blocked like other conversations in the app. The AI bot has also been criticized for its invasive nature and collection of personal data, further fueling the ongoing debate around AI and data privacy.

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🧱 Singleton Design Pattern and different ways to implement it in C# (5 min read)

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