AI App for Pet

A South Korean startup has unveiled an AI for Pet app that lets you assess your pet's health. It works simply: we go into the application, take photos according to the instructions and get an approximate assessment of the health of the animal and recommendations to contact the veterinarian if something is wrong. There are not so many breeds and species yet, but the developers are actively working on the application.

ColaPhone is coming.

The famous manufacturer of carbonated drinks decided to hit the creation of smartphones. It is not yet known for certain whether Coca-Cola will build its capacity or use the services of existing manufacturers, but the render strongly resembles the smartphones of one Chinese brand.

India creates its own operating system.

The government announced the development of the IndOS mobile operating system, which should become a competitor to iOS and Android. At what stage of development the OS is now, is unknown.

Huge iceberg

A huge iceberg (1,550 sq km) the size of Greater London broke off the 150 m thick Brant Ice Shelf after natural cracks spread throughout the glacier. The split happened on Sunday evening during an intense tide. This is the second huge piece that has broken away from the Brant Glacier in the past two years. So, in February 2021, an iceberg with an area of 1270 square meters separated from it. km.

ChatGPT wrote a marketing article for a journalist, earning $600 for a guy in 30 seconds.

The freelancer himself, who regularly writes for The Guardian, spoke about the experiment: according to him, the article needed a little editing, because it lacked the author's point of view, but the content, presentation logic, grammar and syntax were impeccable. The guy himself is sure that artificial intelligence will soon deprive him of his work.

Truck from LEGO

A blogger from the Brick Technology channel assembled a radio-controlled LEGO truck with a pneumatic drive from plastic bottles. In the comments, users praise the work of the author and offer the constructor manufacturer to launch such a set for sale.

The Chinese have created and even started using the largest and most powerful wind turbine in the world.

The H260-18MW plant can develop peak power up to 18 megawatts, and each of the blades is 128 meters long - a football field and a third of another. With each rotation, such a "windmill" generates 44.8 kW / h of energy - enough to power one private house uninterruptedly for 1-2 days. And for the year it is able to generate up to 74 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity.

White card.

In Portugal, for the first time in the history of football, the referee showed not a yellow or red card, but a white one. According to the rules, it encourages the noble behavior of the players. So the referee of the women's match thanked the doctors who helped the football player.

Refueling test at Starbase.

The other day, Starship passed the first full-fledged refueling test at Starbase in conditions close to real flight preparation. For the first time, the ship and the first stage were fully refueled with more than 4,500 tons of fuel. This test will help verify the full sequence of operations during the pre-launch countdown, as well as the performance of the Starship and the launch pad in preparation for the actual flight.

The best thermal grease is ketchup, it turned out during an unusual experiment.

A user of a computer forum decided to check what improvised materials can be used instead of thermal paste. Heinz sauce (71°C), beloved by many, showed itself best of all, Sensodyne toothpaste had a slightly worse result (from 63°C to 90°C), but cheese, potatoes and baby cream, all of a sudden, are not suitable for replacing thermal paste .

In France, they created a backpack with an airbag.

At the same time, it can be used in everyday life, including a laptop. The backpack is paired with a smartphone app. It can call rescuers in the event of an airbag deployment and send them the GPS coordinates of the incident.

Unusual cafe "Capi Neko Cafe" in Japan

Visitors order drinks and sit with a baldezhny rodent - a capybara. The capybara is the world's largest living rodent, and although they are native to South America, they are so beloved in Japan that they even have an anime character dedicated to them. Usually capybaras are kept in zoos, but Tawashi is a friendly capybara who loves to hang out with visitors and sleep on the couch, and seems happy to be around cats and people. More and more cat cafes, including Capi Neko Café, are rescuing cats from the street and looking for a new home for them. The staff hopes that by spending time with the cats at the cafe, customers will be able to form a bond with one or more animals and take them for themselves.

A neural network for creating a 3D human avatar.

Microsoft introduced a neural network capable of creating a 3D human avatar from a single photo and a small text description. The final model can be edited - change the hair color and hairstyle, add vegetation, glasses and other notable features. So far, only a demo is available, but they promise to make the tool publicly available soon.

Looking for a job - ChatGPT will help you.

The founder of the company decided to check whether it is possible to deceive his HRs using a neural network and he succeeded - recruiters liked the resume written by ChatGPT more than 80% of other applicants.

Carnivorous plants evolved and began to eat the feces of animals.

Nepenthes - carnivorous plants - began to change their diet. They evolved and began to collect droppings of small mammals. It is more nutritious than insect excrement and provides plants with more nitrogen. To eat in a new way, the plants had to secrete more nectar with a natural laxative in the composition. These costs paid off: the tissues of the fecal-eating Nepenthes turned out to have almost twice as much nitrogen as in plants that eat traditional prey.

In the sky of Turkey, there was a rare natural phenomenon recently - a lenticular cloud.

The shape of the cloud was discussed the most, many said that it looked like an eye, but there were also those who thought about the vulgar.

More than 250 fossilized titanosaur eggs have been found in India.

In the Indian Narmada Valley, paleontologists have discovered the largest nesting site for titanosaurs - a thousand-kilometer stretch. It was possible to find 256 fossilized eggs in 90 nests of pangolins that lived 67 million years ago. It turned out that titanosaurs made masonry, like crocodiles - in shallow pits. At the same time, the reproductive physiology of ancient pangolins was similar to modern birds. In addition, they nested in colonies.

The surgeons sewed the patient's completely severed scalp.

Danish doctors performed a microsurgical operation to reattach the severed scalp to a woman whose hair was caught in a core drill. The damage affected the entire scalp and the area of the forehead up to the eyebrows. With the help of vascular anastomoses, the surgeons managed to restore the nutrition of the sutured tissues, and after five months the sensitivity returned to the patient.

The British Museum has banned calling mummies mummies.

The London British Museum and the National Museums of Scotland have dropped the term "mummy". As an alternative, he is offered the phrase "mummified man" or "mummified remains". The word "mummy" is not a misnomer, but it dehumanizes the people who once lived. At the same time, the use of the term "mummified person" encourages visitors to treat them with respect.

In Australia, found the world's largest toad weighing 2.7 kg.

The park ranger who discovered the animal initially mistook it for a soccer ball.