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🔎 Self-Healing Glass Discovered Researchers → have discovered that mixing a peptide with water creates a self-assembling, self-healing glass. Peptides, smaller chains of amino acids, usually form crystalline structures. However, this accidental discovery revealed that a specific dipeptide forms a glass-like, transparent material. This new glass is not only strong and transparent but also self-healing and adhesive. Potential applications include lenses, glass panes, and coatings for hydrophilic surfaces. Remarkably, it requires less energy to produce than traditional glass, opening doors to sustainable manufacturing. @durovs_code

📞 Better calling WhatsApp → now supports screen sharing, group calls with up to 32 participants, and a speaker spotlight feature. @durovs_code

It's Friday! And the news is: Tesla shareholders approve Musk's $56B pay package: → durovscode.com/4483 Tesla shareholders sue Musk for building a rival AI company: → durovscode.com/4484 [Crypto] TON $7,89 | BTC $67,13K

🤝 AI in LinkedIn LinkedIn is expanding its AI-based offerings for job seekers with a set of new features → designed to simplify the job application process. @durovs_code

🤖 China's 'Westworld': Inside the Realistic Humanoid Robot Factory In Dalian, China, Ex-Robots engineers develop lifelike humanoid robots → for office and home use, focusing on enhancing facial expressions and emotions. Showcased at the 2023 World Robot Conference, these robots impressed with their hyper-realistic appearances and movements. Ex-Robots has achieved breakthroughs in silicone skin simulation and lightweight mechanical structures, making their creations the world's lightest in their category. Chief Executive Li Boyang highlights the complexity of building humanoid robots, using AI to teach them to recognize and mimic human expressions. It takes two weeks to a month to produce each robot, with prices ranging from 1.5 to 2 million yuan ($207,000 to $280,000). Looking ahead, Li envisions a future where humanoid robots play significant roles in healthcare, education, and everyday home life. @durovs_code

It's Thursday! And the news is: OpenAI's revenue reportedly skyrockets amid ChatGPT boom: → durovscode.com/4481 Apple seems to have persuaded OpenAI to cooperate for exposure rather than money: → durovscode.com/4482 [Crypto] TON $7,64 | BTC $67,55K

🌇 Wealth through real estate Dubai-based real estate fintech platform Stake raised → $14 million in a Series A round led by investors including Saudi Aramco’s venture capital arm and an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. Stake plans to use part of the funds to expand into Saudi Arabia, aiming to allow foreign investment in the local real estate market. @durovs_code

🌚 Tesla's "nightmare" year There are so many unsold Teslas → that they can literally be spotted from space. @durovs_code

It's Wednesday! And the news is: Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI ahead of key court hearing: → durovscode.com/4479 𝕏 makes likes (mostly) private for everyone: → durovscode.com/4480 [Crypto] TON $7,11 | BTC $67,41K

⭐️ Telegram Stars in detail All you need to know about Telegram Stars. Here's an in-depth look → @durovs_code

🐶 AI Cracks the Code of Dog Barks Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed an innovative AI model → to decode dog barks. By leveraging AI models initially trained on human speech, the team can discern whether a bark signals playfulness, aggression, and even identify the dog's age, breed, and sex. The study utilized the Wav2Vec2 model, which was fine-tuned with dog barks after being pre-trained on nearly 1,000 hours of human speech. This repurposed model surpassed those trained solely on dog vocalizations, achieving up to 70% accuracy in emotion classification tasks. The research opens new avenues for understanding animal communication by applying human speech analysis techniques to animal sounds, overcoming the challenge of limited animal vocalization data. @durovs_code

It's Tuesday! And the news is: Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over ChatGPT integration: → durovscode.com/4477 Apple brings RCS to iPhone with iOS 18: → durovscode.com/4478 [Crypto] TON $6,91 | BTC $67,56K

🪅 Design Competition 2024 Telegram announced the results → of the competition to update the messenger design. Pavel Durov's team expressed their sincere thanks and admiration to each participant in the contest.

Now, let us shed some light on the judging process in this competition. The Telegram Design Team joined forces with the Telegram Contest Department, and each judge spent dozens of hours watching and sorting through all the submissions. Once the judges completed their solo evaluations and highlighted the most promising discoveries, the whole jury met to watch and discuss together all the submissions that were not instantly discarded.

This time they decided to increase the prize fund by $24,000, bringing it to $54,000. Moreover, this is the first contest when the reward system involves payment in USD₮ on TON.

Aside from the initially mentioned core criteria, another important consideration was, "How close is this video to the ones we make for Telegram Blog?"

In this post you can see the works of the winners who took the first place and received $5000 each - Dandy Mammoth, Eager Duck, Stout Pony, Swift Shark. 10 more creators got $2000 each, and 14 more got $1000 each. @durovs_code

🚀 Virgin Galactic’s Unity Completes Final Flight Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity → completed its 12th and final mission on June 8, reaching an altitude of 87.5 km. The Galactic 07 mission carried six passengers, including Turkish astronaut Tuva Atasever, former SpaceX engineer Andy Sadhwani, New York construction executive Irving Pergament, and London investor Giorgio Manenti. Unity launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico, separated from its mothership Eve at 13.5 km, and continued to suborbital space. The mission lasted just over an hour and successfully returned to Spaceport America. This flight marks Unity's seventh commercial mission and its retirement to make way for Virgin Galactic's Delta class vehicles, expected to start in 2026. @durovs_code

It's Monday! And the news is: Microsoft announces new disc-less white Xbox Series X and 2TB Xbox Series X in black: → durovscode.com/4475 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 set for November 19th release: → durovscode.com/4476 Join Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference: → WWDC 2024 — June 10 | Apple [Crypto] TON $7,03 | BTC $69,41K

💦 More you cry, more you charge Inspired by a scene from a "Mission Impossible" movie, scientist Lee Seok Woo developed an ultra-thin battery → for smart contact lenses that can be charged by tears.

The thickness of our battery is about 0.2 mm, which is about twice the thickness of a human hair,

Lee said.

If you cry more, then you can charge your battery more.

The battery is still under development, but holds potential for applications in healthcare and wearable technology. @durovs_code

It's Sunday! And the news is: NASA awards $10M for Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX, and others: → durovscode.com/4473 Meta enhances WhatsApp Business app with AI-powered features: → durovscode.com/4474 [Crypto] TON $7,12 | BTC $69,33K

🚀 3..2..1 This week, SpaceX successfully → launched and landed its Starship. The spacecraft made a controlled reentry, overcoming peak heating phases and demonstrating flap control while descending through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. This was the 4th Starship flight. After successful tests, Elon Musk aims to use it for interplanetary flights. @durovs_code

It's Saturday! And the news is: TikTok fixes vulnerability after cyberattack targets high-profile accounts: → durovscode.com/4471 Meta quietly launches standalone Messenger group chats: → durovscode.com/4472 [Crypto] TON $7,23 | BTC $69,0K

🇦🇪 AI 'marriage' with US The UAE's AI minister, Omar Sultan Al Olama, revealed plans → for greater tech collaboration with the US following a significant deal with Microsoft that saw the company acquire a $1.5 billion stake in Abu Dhabi's AI leader G42. @durovs_code