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This upcoming iOS feature w= ill make spam phone calls an issue of the past (2 minute read)

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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescop= e has a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's. It has the p= otential to document light from over a billion galaxies over its career. Th= e telescope will help researchers better understand exoplanets, infrared as= trophysics, and the nature of dark matter. Roman could potentially find evi= dence of the very first stars to ever form in the universe. The telescope i= s scheduled to launch in 2027.
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=E2=80=98Utopian' city Cali= fornia Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park (1 minute read)

California Forever, a project backed by= a group of Silicon Valley billionaires, plans to build a massive manufactu= ring park in its planned 'utopian' city. The Solano Foundry will host 40 mi= llion square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space and have over 175,00= 0 homes. The site will offer expedited permitting, transportation for finis= hed goods, and plenty of power from renewable energy. The project aims to a= ttract hardware, engineering, and AI talent from Silicon Valley, which is a= bout 40 miles away.
How Android phones became a= n earthquake warning system (6 minute read)

The Android Earthquake Alert system, wh= ich is on by default in most Android phones, displays a notification to use= rs when there is an earthquake nearby to warn them to get to a safer locati= on. The system uses accelerometers to detect vibrations - an alert is trigg= ered when there is widespread phone activity that matches the pattern expec= ted for an earthquake. As of the end of March last year, the system has sen= sed a total of 1,279 events, ranging in magnitude from 1.9 to 7.8, of which= only three were false positives.
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Robinhood CEO says the majo= rity of the company's new code is written by AI, with 'close to 100%' adopt= ion from engineers (2 minute read)

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev claims that it= has become difficult to distinguish human-written code from AI-generated c= ode.
Amazing Hand project (GitHu= b Repo)

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Running TypeScript Natively= (4 minute read)

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Uber inks six-year robotaxi= deal with Lucid, invests $300 million in EV company (4 minute read)

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