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Influencer makes AI clone of herself. But it turns out badly.

Caryn Marjorie is a social media influencer whose content has more than a billion views per month on Snapchat. She posts regularly, featuring everyday moments, travel memories, and selfies. Many of her followers are men, attracted by her girl-next-door aesthetic.

In 2023, Marjorie released a “digital version” of herself. Fans could chat with CarynAI for US$1 per minute – and in the first week alone they spent US$70,000 doing just that.

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Stanford’s new tiny, cheap laser:

Researchers have achieved a potentially groundbreaking innovation in laser technology by developing a titanium-sapphire (Ti: sapphire) laser on a chip. This new prototype is dramatically smaller, more efficient, and less expensive than its predecessors, marking a significant leap forward with a technology that has broad applications in industry, medicine, and beyond.

Ti: sapphire lasers are known for their unmatched performance in quantum optics, spectroscopy, and neuroscience due to their wide gain bandwidth and ultrafast light pulses. However, their bulky size and high cost have limited their widespread adoption. Traditional Ti: sapphire lasers occupy cubic feet in volume and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, in addition to requiring high-powered lasers costing $30,000 each to feed it the energy it needs to operate.

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Receiver blocks interference early:

MIT researchers also state that the interference-blocking components can be switched on and off as needed to conserve energy.

Степень возмущенности магнитного поля планеты достигла уровня G4.

In the creepiest video of 2024, a scientist explains how his system, Cognify, could ‘fix’ prisoners by implanting AI-generated artificial memories in their brains. And it somehow gets weirder.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams blasted off on June 5 — the start of a test flight that was expected to last just a week or so.

A stuck lens cover had prevented SHERLOC from focusing on targets.

Starlink satellites were deployed by SpaceX. Watch multiple views captured by cameras aboard the Falcon 9 rocket second stage. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: SpaceX | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: New Age Solitude by Philip Ayers / courtesy of Epidemic Sound.

The Japanese government is planning to connect major cities with automated zero-emissions logistics links that can quietly and efficiently shift millions of tons of cargo, while getting tens of thousands of trucks off the road.