Good morning 🪴 They’re sending weed to space – for science, of course. A mission aboard a SpaceX rocket is launching cannabis seeds into orbit to test how radiation affects them. Researchers believe it could become a “supercrop” for future colonies, providing food, medicine, and building materials on Mars. Forget potatoes. We might farm something a lot more fun.
💻 ICYMI: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
🤓 Snap’s Spectacles are ugly AF but at least they block ads now. Belgian engineer Stijn Spanhove built an app using Snap’s developer tools but forgot to hire a designer. The app uses Snap’s augmented reality glasses and Google’s Gemini AI to spot real-world billboards, posters, and ads. Then it slaps bright red rectangles over them, instantly blocking brands from your view. Voila! Now instead of ignoring ads, you can enjoy being visually assaulted by giant red stickers.
📸 Astronomy’s most powerful telescope just dropped its first images. The 3200-megapixel camera captures sky areas 40x bigger than a full moon in one shot. Over the next decade it’ll map 20 billion galaxies, track killer asteroids, and hunt the mythical Planet Nine. Each year it’ll generate more data than all previous optical telescopes combined. The universe just reminded us we’re not special.
🎯 Crypto degens accidentally built the most advanced decentralized visual AI. It’s kind of a big deal. They started out tracking players to make smarter bets. Somehow they ended up creating a surveillance machine that collects, models, and predicts everything it sees. Now it spots shoplifters, settles insurance claims, even diagnoses medical conditions. Anything with a camera is fair game. Sports betting was just the proving ground. Wait until intelligence agencies realize what it can really do.
🐮 Cows are the new unicorn. New Zealand startup Halter just raised $100 million putting smart collars on cows. The app allows ranchers to virtually fence, herd, and monitor cattle using sound and vibration cues. This improves grazing efficiency and lowers environmental impact – all without stepping into the pasture. With fewer farm workers and ranchers getting older, automation is booming. It’s giving a whole new meaning to the term “cash cow.”
Pro photos from your iPhone
Project Indigo, Adobe’s new camera app, gives your iPhone photos the quality of a pro-level camera. Instead of capturing just one image, Indigo quickly takes multiple shots, merging them into a single, high-quality photo.
Why does it matter? Smartphone photography usually means sacrificing quality. Project Indigo changes that. It combines the power of computational photography with simple manual controls like focus and shutter speed, giving your images an SLR camera feel. Best of all, it’s completely free and requires no Adobe account.
Use Project Indigo to instantly boost your photo quality, test advanced features like reflection removal, or experiment with manual controls. Your phone photos just went pro.
😵💫 On slow news days, talking heads love to hype Q-Day. They warn it’s coming soon, urge panic, and briefly convince your endocrine system you’re being chased by a bear. Here’s the reality. Quantum computers powerful enough to break encryption remain years away. Quantum-safe algorithms are already rolling out. The quantum apocalypse makes great clickbait, but reality is far less dramatic.
🐝 The fate of humanity depends on bees. Colonies keep collapsing from pesticides, climate chaos and stress. Enter robotic “BeeHomes”: solar-powered, AI-driven hives equipped with robotic arms and advanced sensors. They monitor bee health in real time, automatically dispense food and medicine, and control temps and ventilation. BeeHomes handle 90% of a beekeeper’s job, cutting colony losses from over 40% to just 8%. At this point, bees may have better healthcare and housing than people.