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Leben (Life aka misc)
Disney World is Having Trouble Selling Its $4,800 Simulated ‘Star Wars’ Space Cruises
$4,800 buys you a two-day “immersive” experience on the Star Wars-themed “Galactic Starcruiser” at Disney World — a pseudo cruise ship in space. But one year after it opened, Disney is “cutting back” some of its bookings. Earlier this year, it began offering its first sizable discounts to the general Read more…
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Congressman Reintroduces 32-Hour Workweek Law To ‘Increase the Happiness of Humankind’
Rep. Mark Takano, who represents California’s 39th district, has reintroduced his 32-hour Workweek Act to Congress, which, if passed, would officially reduce the standard definition of the workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours by amending the Fair Labor Standards Act. His proposal would mandate overtime pay for any work Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Microsoft Will Launch ChatGPT 4 With AI Videos Next Week
Microsoft Germany announced that the company is set to launch GPT-4 as early as next week, “and it will potentially let you create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts,” reports Digital Trends. The news was revealed by Andreas Braun, Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Germany, at a recent event titled Read more…
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Starbucks Sold 2,000 NFTs In 20 Minutes
Yesterday, Starbucks sold all of its 2,000 NFT “Journey Stamps” in under 20 minutes. They were the company’s first paid collection of NFTs and were priced at $100 each. The coffee company first launched its NFT and Web3 push in December, when it opened up a new membership program called Read more…
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Scientists Managed To Completely Map a Baby Fruit Fly’s Brain
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University announced that they’d finally mapped every single neuron and all the connections between them housed inside the brain of a fruit fly larva. The team’s research was published this week in the journal Science. “If we want to understand who Read more…