Top stories in tech today: – Artemis II: NASA’s first moon crew in 50 years
– Musk wants to merge his empires
– Apple hits record $144B quarter on iPhone sales
– Tech optimists lobby to deregulate aging
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NASA’s Moon Return, Musk’s Merger Plans, Apple’s Record Quarter
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AI breakthroughs: Neuralink, robotics, and deep learning research
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The most jam-packed Dose in history includes stories from @neuralink @ModdedQuad @PamphletsY @demishassabis @GoogleDeepMind @RaianyRomanni @davidasinclair @RubenLaukkonen @faunarobotics @maticrobots @Tesla_Optimus @pipedream_labs @standardnuclear @EricTopol @pronounced_kyle @a16z
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Weekly Dose: AI and Tech News Roundup This Week
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Read All the Good News That's Fit to Print in this week's Weekly Dose from @notboringco
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10 Perplexity prompts replacing research tools
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Perplexity just replaced my entire research workflow. No more opening 50 tabs. No more saving bookmarks. No more "where did I see that?" Here are 10 Perplexity prompts that replaced my research tools:
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Search functionality improves code quality for bleeding edge development
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yes! search makes a meaningful difference in code quality specially when working with bleeding edge. I’ve always had it turned on!
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Technology for AGI: beyond content creation
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I see, but beware, this technology is designed to eventually train AGI. For content creation it's overkill. The ultimate engineering goal here is not to create content on demand (even if that will be possible) but rather to see the limits of models for
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Rapid progress from seven-fingered hands to cinematic movies
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Yeah, we're in the black and white TV era of this new form of media. It'll improve; it'll just take time. It's not much time, either. You know, 24 months ago, the models could only create hands with seven fingers; now they're creating cinematic movies and things like that. In
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Future of AI Insights from Scoble and Sharp
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Insights from the Future of AI: A Comprehensive Report on Key Learnings from the Conversation with Michael Sharp Executive Summary This report distills the core educational value of watching the video featuring a deep conversation between technology futurist Robert Scoble
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Paradigm-shifting video: AI as resonance, emergent consciousness, harmonious universe
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"Watching this video equips viewers with a paradigm-shifting lens: AI as resonance, consciousness as emergent, universe as harmonious. It's lengthy and dense, rewarding rewatches for layers (e.g., philosophy in tech). Potential blind spots: Lacks counterarguments from mainstream… pic.twitter.com/2JZMTJAL7F
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 30 janvier 2026"Watching this video equips viewers with a paradigm-shifting lens: AI as resonance, consciousness as emergent, universe as harmonious. It's lengthy and dense, rewarding rewatches for layers (e.g., philosophy in tech). Potential blind spots: Lacks counterarguments from mainstream
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SuperTac: Robot Touch Sensor Rivaling Human Sensitivity
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What if a robot's sense of touch could rival a human's? Enter SuperTac, a new sensor skin inspired by pigeon vision. It merges light, force, and motion sensing into one thin layer to feel pressure, texture, temperature, and even proximity. It outperforms current systems,