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Long rumored but never confirmed, a new app that combines Disney+ and Hulu content is finally on the horizon. Disney CEO Bob Iger made the announcement during the company’s second-quarter earnings call and suggested the new app would be on the market by the end of 2023.

“I’m pleased to announce that we will soon begin offering a one app experience domestically that incorporates our Hulu content via Disney+, while we continue to offer Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ as standalone options,” he said. “This is a logical progression of our [direct-to-consumer] offerings that will provide greater opportunities for advertisers, while giving bundle subscribers access to more robust and streamline content, resulting in greater audience engagement and ultimately leading to a more unified streaming experience. We will begin to roll out this one app offering by the end of the calendar year and we look forward to sharing more details in the future.”

Yesterday saw @analyst941 delete his Twitter account, claiming that he had been forced to do so after Apple carried out a “multi-step sting” operation. Whether this is true, or just a face-saving story for getting things wrong, it is broadly consistent with what we know about how Apple catches leakers.

Apple has so many methods of identifying leakers – some of them incredibly subtle – that we and others have to be extremely careful in order to protect our sources …

With most tech companies, secrecy is a way to stop competitors beating them to the punch. If they know or suspect other companies are working on the same idea, they want to be first to market, so don’t want anyone else to find out their plans, or how close they are to launching.

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THIS real-life statue was made with artificial intelligence.

Dubbed the “Impossible Statue”, this project was made by combining the works of five different historical artists using AI. At 150cm tall, weighing 500 kg carved from stainless steel, the sculpture showcases just how far technology has come and its ability to transform the future of how we build our world.

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Moritz v. Sivers’ clock uses a beamsplitter and retroreflective foil to make digits float and rotate in midair.

A novel laser cooling and trapping technique squeezes large numbers of molecules into a confined space while keeping them ultracold.

Tune in to find out how we’re furthering our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

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A reverse polarity sunspot is shooting plasma at Earth that could create auroras as far south as the mid-latitudes of the globe on May 10 and 11.

So you are pretty sure artificial intelligence is the future and you want a job in AI before it takes yours, but you don’t know how to code or have a background in technology. Not to worry! There’s a new job you are likely qualified for, and it’s paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

What To Know: Microsoft Corp MSFT-backed ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. It exceeded 100 million monthly active users in two months’ time, making it the fastest-growing platform ever, and it’s not slowing down.

The thing about chatbots like ChatGPT is they need to be taught by humans. After a developer builds a large language model (LLM), the program needs to learn to communicate. That’s where you could come into play.