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👩🏻‍🦳 Home System Lets Users Create Their Own Hair Dye Beauty-tech company Zuvi introduced ColorBox, an at-home hair coloring system that can produce a custom dye in any color you choose. Just like a printer, ColorBox uses three cartridges—yellow, blue, and red—along with a conditioner-based diluting cream. Through a mobile app, you can pick from a library of 1,000+ preset shades or mix your own color from scratch. Once you've made your choice, ColorBox dispenses the exact amount of each component, and you blend it into a cream-textured base. ColorBox is priced at $179, with shipping starting June 1st.

🚀 Artemis II, the First Crewed Lunar Mission in 50 Years, Has Launched At 6:35 p.m. Eastern time, NASA's SLS rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-person crew—Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover—will fly around the Moon and return to Earth on a 10-day mission. NASA plans to land astronauts on the Moon in 2028 during Artemis IV.

📺 Honor Announces a Phone That Unfolds Into a TV The new foldable Honor Magic VVVVVVVVV looks like a perfectly ordinary chunky smartphone at first glance—but users can unfold it into a full-size TV. Unfortunately, it's just an April Fools' joke from the Chinese company.

😳 Paul McCartney Banned From Reddit After Promoting Himself in Paul McCartney Subreddit Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney’s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned. Still, Reddit claims that there was just an error.

"There was a technical bug that made the account look banned, but no one would ban one of The Beatles," Reddit said.

🎓 MIT Has Released the First Lecture of the Updated "Introduction to Machine Learning" Course For beginners, this is one of the best resources to start learning ML and AI. For experienced developers, it is a chance to refresh their knowledge with the current state of the industry in mind. ➡️ You can watch the first lecture on YouTube. Also, the playlist includes recordings of courses from previous years. New lectures will be published every week. Additional materials, notes, and slides are available on the course website.

🟥 Cyclone Narelle Turns Western Australia's Sky Blood Red After Historic Four-Landfall Path As Tropical Cyclone Narelle bore down on Western Australia's coast on Friday, March 27, residents of Shark Bay and the surrounding Pilbara region looked up to find the sky had turned a deep, unsettling crimson. The phenomenon, captured on video, quickly went viral as footage of the "apocalyptic" scene spread across social media.

💻 Windows Applications Experience Hangs 7.5 Times More Frequently Than Those on macOS This was reported by analysts at Omnissa, who analyzed telemetry data from millions of corporate devices running their software. Furthermore, according to their data, Windows-based computers require forced shutdowns 3.1 times more often, and applications experience critical crashes 2.2 times more frequently compared to Apple machines. Due to these disruptions, employees working on Windows lose up to 24 minutes of productive time. ⏳ In companies, macOS devices are used for an average of 6 years, while Windows machines are used for 3 years. And which OS do you use? ❤️ — macOS 🔥 — Windows 😎 — Linux

🎮 Sony To Raise PlayStation Prices, Citing Global Economic Situation Sony has announced a global price increase for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal consoles. The new recommended retail prices will take effect on April 2, 2026. The company said the decision is due to the global economic situation and the need to support the development of new products. Prices in the U.S. are now: PS5 — $649.99 PS5 Digital Edition — $599.99 PS5 Pro — $899.99

🪐 AI Tool Validates 118 Hidden Exoplanets in NASA's TESS Data Astronomers at the University of Warwick have used a newly developed artificial intelligence pipeline to validate 118 previously unconfirmed exoplanets, including 31 entirely new detections, buried in data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The AI system, called RAVEN (RAnking and Validation of ExoplaNets), scanned observations of more than 2.2 million stars collected during the first four years of the TESS mission, focusing on planets that orbit close to their host stars with periods shorter than 16 days.

🐿 London Squirrels Really Like Vapes Squirrels have developed a liking for vapes; a video of the animals "smoking" in London has gone viral online. The rodents seem to be attracted to fruit flavors, but this can be dangerous for them due to nicotine and the risk of swallowing microplastics. That is why people are being urged to dispose of vapes properly.

😱 Full-Scale Model of Arthropleura A Redditor had 3D-printed a 1:1 model of an Arthropleura, the largest insect (arthropod) ever known to exist. The good news is that it went extinct 300 million years ago.

🦞 Tencent Embeds OpenClaw AI Agent into WeChat for Over a Billion Users Tencent launched a tool on Sunday to embed the OpenClaw AI agent directly into its WeChat messaging platform, turning China's most widely used app into a gateway for AI-powered task automation. The software, called ClawBot, appears as a contact within WeChat, allowing users to send commands and interact with the agent through the familiar chat interface, according to Reuters.

🔥 "Cognitive Atrophy" is One of the Main Fears About AI  Only bot unreliability, the impact of technology on the economy, and the loss of agency and autonomy due to AI worry people more. These were the findings made by Anthropic after surveying more than 80,000 users of its Claude bot. The interviews were conducted by Claude itself—this is the world's first survey of this scale conducted by AI.

"I got excellent grades using AI's answers, not what I'd actually learned. I just memorized what AI gave me... That's when I feel the most self-reproach," a student from Korea shared.

🎓 Moreover, teachers are 2.5–3 times more likely to notice AI-related "cognitive atrophy" in those around them—they see the effect in their students. 👍 At the same time, blue-collar workers not only worry less about this phenomenon but are also more likely than others to say that AI really helps them learn new things. Therefore, researchers believe that chatbots can be beneficial only if learning is approached with genuine intent—not simply as a box-ticking exercise. Does "cognitive atrophy" caused by AI worry you? 🔥 — Yes, I'm starting to notice it 😎 — No, AI helps me!

🖼 Funny Wildlife Outtakes Entries for the 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards opened this week. To celebrate, the contest shared a set of outtakes from last year's competition. They are just as funny as you'd expect: a caiman with butterfly "accessories," a friendly damselfly, and two baboons caught in an awkward moment.

🇰🇵 North Korea's 100,000 Fake IT Workers Earn $500M a Year A joint report from IBM X-Force and cybersecurity firm Flare, published this week, has pulled back the curtain on North Korea's sprawling fake IT worker operation, revealing a centrally organized scheme that places thousands of operatives in legitimate technology jobs at companies worldwide—generating an estimated $500 million a year for Pyongyang.

🤖 Robot Demolishes Shelf While Serving Customers A robot salesman in China knocked over a shelf while retrieving merchandise for customers. But the customer still got their bottle, and the robot didn't lose its charm for a second.

☀️ Rising Heat Could Cause Up To 700,000 Extra Deaths A Year By 2050 A study in The Lancet Global Health finds that higher temperatures may push more people into inactivity, increasing health risks. Each extra month above 27.8°C is linked to a 1.4 percentage-point rise in inactivity worldwide (1.85 pp in lower-income countries). By 2050, this could lead to 470,000–700,000 extra deaths annually and $2.4–3.68 billion in lost productivity.

⚛️ CERN Discovers New Proton-Like Particle The LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has discovered a new particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark. Its structure is similar to that of the familiar proton, but two light up quarks are replaced by two much heavier charm quarks—making the new particle about four times heavier.

"The result will help theorists test models of quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force that binds quarks into not only conventional baryons and mesons but also more exotic hadrons such as tetraquarks and pentaquarks," says LHCb Spokesperson Vincenzo Vagnoni.

🧠 Redditor 3D-Printed His Own Brain The whole process took 23.5 hours, he claims. If you have an MRI brain scan file in NIfTI format, you can turn it into a 3D-printable model for free at brain2print.org. Another idea for an unusual gift!

🩸New Blood Test Detects Brain Tumors with Over 90% Accuracy Scientists at the University of Manchester have developed an experimental blood test that can identify glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, with more than 90% accuracy—a breakthrough that could one day allow general practitioners to detect the disease through a simple test similar to a COVID swab.