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2022-06-09 13:00:03 While Zuckerberg is building his metaverse out of square men, NASA is creating a really cool metaworld called MarsXR on the Unreal Engine 5 (we wrote about what it can do).

Virtual Mars will allow astronauts to practice different scenarios on the Red Planet using virtual reality technology.

Developers using a special editor can create scenarios themselves. To keep things interesting, NASA has launched the NASA MarsXR Challenge, where $70,000 will be distributed.

Expect a metaverse from Rogozin or just another tweet.

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2022-06-09 10:00:06 That doesn't sound very environmentally friendly. Ilon Musk was condemned for using an airplane to fly 65 km

Elon Musk has always presented his brainchild, Tesla, as a company for which environmental issues are a priority. However, he himself made a rather rash move that made users question whether Musk is a true eco-activist: the head of

The head of Tesla used his private jet to fly a distance of 65 km. That is the distance between San Jose and San Francisco.

According to the resource ElonJet, which captures all of Ilon Musk's movements on the plane, the flight took only 9 minutes.

It is clear that this way the head of Tesla saved a lot of time, but the volume of harmful emissions of such a short flight is incomparable with the emissions of an ordinary car trip even in cars with internal combustion engine, not to mention the Tesla.

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2022-06-08 20:00:05 IMAX in your pocket!

EE Nreal Air augmented reality sunglasses that instantly project a theater-sized screen in front of your eyes.

From the front, they look like regular sunglasses, but have two OLED displays hidden behind the lenses. When connected to your smartphone, they can project a 201-inch IMAX-sized virtual screen 20 feet in front of you.

In Russia, they would come in handy right now. But, will be available in a week and so far in the UK.

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2022-06-08 16:00:04 DeepMind's new artificial intelligence can perform more than 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots.

In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), the height of achievement is considered to be creating a system with artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to understand and learn any task that a human can perform.

This week DeepMind released an AGI model called Gato.

Researchers trained Gato to perform 604 tasks, namely adding captions to images, participating in dialogues, stacking blocks with a real robot hand and playing games.

For example, Google uses a similar system called the multitasking unified model, or MUM, which can process text, images and video to perform tasks ranging from finding cross-language variants of word spellings to matching a search query to an image. Google Lens and the company's other products run on the MUM model.

Gato is a new level, an improved technology.

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2022-06-08 13:00:02 Tesla may return to normal production volumes in Shanghai by mid-May

Tesla expects to restore production volumes in Shanghai by mid-May after it severely curtailed due to a lockdown in the metropolis.

Experts estimate that the waiting period for customers, if they place orders for Tesla electric cars now, will be about six months.

Tesla was forced to suspend operations at its Shanghai plant on March 28.

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2022-06-08 10:00:03 Elon Musk announced the approximate timeframe for the launch of the Starship rocket to Mars

Musk said that the Starship spacecraft could make an unmanned flight to Mars in the next five years.

Musk noted that the "windows" for flights to Mars are opened every two years, the necessary arrangement of the planets for the flight from Earth's orbit to the orbit of Mars is set every 26 months.

He also expressed the hope that the first Starship launch will be attempted this summer, "within the next two or three months."

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2022-06-07 20:00:03 Elon Musk suspended the purchase of Twitter in order to check whether the number of fake accounts on the social network does not exceed 5%.

Meanwhile, Twitter shares reacted with a 20% drop.

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2022-06-07 16:00:02 While the stabelcoin market is feverish, Madonna has stirred up a storm of emotions in the community with her NFT launch.

In brief, a tree emerges from the 63-year-old singer's 3D vagina in the lab, a second features butterflies in a crumbling city, and a third features mechanical centipedes in the background of a garden.

Earlier this month, Madonna asked to go to the Pope for confession. She complained to the pontiff that she had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church as many as three times. I wonder why?

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2022-06-07 13:00:02 TikTok has created a unique smartphone for social networks.

The working name is Lingjing Live Streaming All-in-One Machine.

The device has a large screen, but its size is not yet known. There are three control knobs directly below the screen. The knobs are for controlling the microphone, background sound, and volume. There is also a base on the back of the screen that also serves as a speaker.

Most likely, this gizmo is designed specifically for bloggers. It is said to cost 15,800 yuan (about $2342).

When it will be released - is not clear. Will be in Russia - probably not soon.

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2022-06-07 10:00:04 Apple has announced that it is discontinuing production of the iPod touch (7th generation).

Customers can purchase the device online or at authorized resellers while the product is in stock.

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