🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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The first indoor game of ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal by James Creighton and students of McGill University.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Anthropic accuses Chinese labs DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of mass “distillation” theft via 24,000+ fake Claude accounts, generating 16M queries to copy its reasoning and coding strengths, intensifying U.S.-China AI tensions and bolstering arguments for stricter AI chip export controls.
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AMD’s new Ryzen AI 400 desktop chips bring Zen 5 CPUs, RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, and 50-TOPS NPUs to AM5, but only in business-focused Pro models. They’re repackaged laptop silicon, modestly specced, Copilot+-ready, and not aimed at DIY gamers or enthusiasts.
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6G, targeted for 2030, is still being defined but hyped at MWC 2026. Promised features: sensing environments via networks, seamless satellite–cellular coverage, and AI-powered “edge” base stations. Experts see big privacy issues and fear a repeat of overhyped, underdelivered 5G.
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MyFitnessPal acquired teen-founded rival Cal AI, a fast-growing AI food-photo calorie app with $30M annual revenue. Cal AI stays a separate app, its team joins MFP, and it now taps MFP’s massive nutrition database to blend speed with richer data.
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Lenovo unveiled two AI “desk companions” at MWC 2026: a robot-arm Workmate that scans documents, projects presentations, and acts as a smart assistant, and a clock-like Work Companion that manages schedules, monitors screen time, docks devices, and aims to reduce burnout.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean took the bite out of Apple's logo.
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⭐ 12787, 🖖 1560
Minimal reproduction of DeepSeek R1-Zero
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⭐ 61, 🖖 2
LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
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⭐ 5086, 🖖 534
The most powerful local music generation model that outperforms most commercial alternatives
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⭐ 3, 🖖 0
VX7 – Open-source Yamaha DX7 emulator written in Python
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⭐ 5324, 🖖 344
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