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😷 Up to 400 Million Face Long-COVID Brain Symptoms A review published Monday in Nature Reviews Disease Primers highlights the massive global impact of long COVID on the brain. It estimates that 80 to 400 million people worldwide suffer from lasting neurological issues months or years after infection. The study notes that symptoms often continue for at least three months. Common problems include memory loss, anxiety, depression, headaches, and sleep disturbances. The condition affects 5–20% of general cases and up to 50% of hospitalized patients. Have you experienced Long-COVID yourself? 🔥 — Yes ❤️ — No Read More

❤️ World Record for Longest Remote Robotic Surgery Set A surgeon in Kuwait successfully operated on a patient in Brazil, connecting two rooms across 12,035 km in near real‑time. This achievement sets a new world record for the most significant distance between a doctor and a patient during a robotic operation. Read More

✈️ Durov Offers Free IVF Using His Sperm Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced he will pay for in vitro fertilization (IVF) for unmarried women aged 37 or younger who use his sperm. The 41‑year‑old billionaire, who has already fathered over 100 children, calls the offer a way to help solve the global fertility crisis. The program is managed by Moscow's Altravita Clinic, which promotes it as a unique chance to use donor material from a famous entrepreneur. Durov is covering the full cost of the treatments, which usually run around $5,000. What do you think? ❤️ — Marketing 🔥 — He's just... being Pavel! Read More

☃️ Disney's AI Olaf Robot Now Greets Guests in Paris The AI robot Olaf from Frozen now greets guests at Disneyland Paris. Its smooth, realistic movements are the result of reinforcement learning and Nvidia technologies. The robot is trained in a simulation, where it learns to accurately reproduce movements crafted by animators. Read More

© The First "Avengers: Doomsday" Teaser We'll see the return of the original Captain America now revealed to have a child with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell, also back), following the time-displaced romance they sealed with a kiss at the end of Endgame. How this shapes the plot remains unclear, but given the subtitle, it's unlikely the Rogers family's future will be a happy one. "Avengers: Doomsday" hits theaters on December 18, 2026, followed by "Avengers: Secret Wars" on December 17, 2027.

☠️ Do Developed Nations Fear AI? In the US, UK, and Australia, about 35–39% of the population views AI negatively, according to a YouGov poll. The main fear is job loss: 66% of Britons are convinced that AI models will eliminate more jobs than they create. Notably, "AI pessimism" is most pronounced in English-speaking Western countries. On the other hand, 49% of people in Spain believe the benefits of implementing AI will outweigh the downsides. Pew Research shows that residents of wealthier nations are much more aware of AI capabilities, yet anxiety levels remain high. For instance, half the US population is concerned about AI development—a sentiment shared by countries often considered outsiders in the "AI race," such as Italy, Australia, and Brazil. In South Korea, only 16% express similar concerns, compared to 19% in India, 24% in Nigeria, and 30% in South Africa. However, even in relatively wealthy nations like Sweden, Germany, and France, about a third of the population is worried about the technology's growth. The median percentage of "AI optimists" across countries is just 16%. How do you feel about the rise of AI? ❤️ — Positive, I'm an AI optimist! 🔥 — Negative, I'm a skeptic! 🤔 — The main thing is that AI brings value...

🚀 Blue Origin Sends First Wheelchair User to Space Blue Origin sent aerospace engineer Michaela "Michi" Benthaus to space on Thursday, making her the first wheelchair user to cross the Kármán line. Benthaus and five passengers completed a ~11-minute suborbital flight that reached roughly 62 miles, offering several minutes of weightlessness and panoramic views of Earth. Benthaus, a European Space Agency engineer, has used a wheelchair since a 2018 mountain-biking accident. She said she'd feared her dream of space was over, but worked with a supportive team to make the flight possible. A plush hippo that comforted her during recovery accompanied her on the mission. Read More

🌩 You Can Now Play GTA: Vice City in Your Browser The DosZone team has released a beta version of GTA: Vice City that runs directly in the browser. You can explore the open world, drive, shoot, and walk around freely. However, once you reach the first story checkpoint at the Ocean View Hotel, the game will ask you to locate the original game executable (e.g., gtavc.exe) to continue. The system validates that you own the original assets by checking file checksums, ensuring that you have a legitimate, purchased copy of the game. ↪️ You can play it here. Read More

🍷 Sip Savvy: Choose Wine Smarter with AI Sip Savvy is an AI-powered app that scans restaurant wine lists to find the best value bottle. Say goodbye to overpriced options and the guessing game of picking the "second cheapest bottle." ➡️ Available now on the iOS App Store. Read More

♊ Google Releases Gemini 3 Flash It uses the same architecture as the Pro version and understands photos, videos, and voice. Consequently, during reasoning, it captures all the subtle nuances of queries and provides specific, detailed answers. At the same time, according to benchmarks, the model barely lags behind Gemini 3 Pro, and in some tests (ARC-AGI-2, multilingual MMLU), it even surpasses it. 🔜 You can try it for free in Google AI Studio. Additionally, the model now works by default in Google Search's AI mode. Read More

👐 OpenAI Launches GPT Image 1.5 A new image generator inside ChatGPT is four times faster, preserves finer detail, and follows prompts more precisely. Developers also report better text rendering and a reduction in the characteristic yellow tint—though some residue remains. Access to GPT Image 1.5 opens today for all ChatGPT users. Read More

☢️ CIA Lost Nuclear Generator in Himalayas—Still Missing After 60 Years In 1965, a CIA team of American and Indian climbers attempted to install surveillance equipment on Nanda Devi peak (7,816m) to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. The mission aimed to intercept radio signals after China's first atomic bomb test in 1964. When a storm hit near the summit, the team had to evacuate, leaving behind their antenna, cables, and a plutonium-238-powered generator. When CIA climbers returned in 1966, the nuclear device had vanished. According to The New York Times, the generator's location remains unknown to this day. Read More

🎰 Users Lost $6M Betting That "AI" Would Be Time's "Person of the Year" Time Magazine named the "Architects of AI" as "Person of the Year"—a group of industry leaders including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk. As the editors noted, "the debate about how to wield AI responsibly gave way to a sprint to deploy it as fast as possible." The total betting volume on Time's decision across prediction markets reached $74M this year—and the result sparked outrage. On Polymarket, "AI" itself was considered the favorite, but in the end, $6M in bets were wiped out. Trader chats are full of indignation; many are calling it a scam, believing the nomination was interpreted too literally. The platform explains that despite the massive AI letters on the cover, the award went to people, not the technology.

"Accordingly, a Time cover which lists 'Architects of AI' as the person of the year will not qualify for 'AI'," was Polymarket's verdict.

😜 The biggest scandal caused a split between the exchanges. The American platform Kalshi paid out wins to those who bet on specific names included among the "Architects." Polymarket, however, ruled such bets as losses.

🔞 ChatGPT Plans To Launch Adult Mode In Early 2026 OpenAI plans to roll out adult mode in the first quarter of 2026. Fidji Simo, the company's CEO of Applications, said the launch depends on improving OpenAI's ability to accurately determine a user's age. The company is currently testing its new age-prediction model, which will decide when to apply stricter safeguards and content limits for users under 18—a necessary step before the feature goes live. Will you use the adult mode? 😱 — Of course not 🗿 — Maybe try one time 🍓 — Yes, can't wait! Read More

👐 OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 The new model hallucinates 30% less compared to GPT-5.1 and handles business tasks, spreadsheets, and coding better. It manages long context almost twice as effectively—with virtually no performance loss between 8k and 256k tokens. Image handling and agentic capabilities have also been significantly improved. Already available for paid users, rolling out to everyone by tomorrow. Read More

📰 Time Names "AI Architects" as 2025 Person of the Year The designation recognizes eight prominent figures: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind head Demis Hassabis, and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li from Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute.​ "For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year," Time declared in announcing the choice. Read More

🚕 Uber Installs Kiosks to Book Rides Without the App Uber is rolling out self-service kiosks that let travelers book rides without the mobile app—a convenience aimed at international visitors without data and a handy fallback if your phone dies. Passengers enter destination and ride type at the kiosk and receive a printed receipt with their booking details. The first kiosk arrives in Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport (NYC); Uber says more units will appear in airports, hotels and ports in the coming months. Read More

🏉 Restore Old-School Devices in This Repair Shop Sim Set in 2000s Japan ReStory: Chill Electronic Repairs—a new atmospheric sim from Mandragora and publisher tinyBuild—drops you into mid-2000s Tokyo as the manager of a small electronics repair shop. You restore Y2K staples (game consoles, cell phones, music players), talk with customers and hear their stories, and shape a branching narrative that can end in multiple ways depending on your choices. Plus, gameplay includes shop management, budgeting, and hunting the web for scarce parts. ReStory: Chill Electronic Repairs is scheduled for release in 2026. Meanwhile, you can join the playtest and wishlist the sim on Steam. Read More

🖥 China Set to Curb Nvidia H200 Access Despite Trump's Export Approval Beijing is preparing measures to restrict domestic access to Nvidia's H200 AI chips even after the U.S. signalled it would allow conditional exports. Chinese regulators are reportedly weighing an approval process that would force potential buyers to justify why local alternatives are insufficient. This move could limit who actually gets the chips inside China. President Trump announced that the U.S. will permit Nvidia to ship H200s to "approved customers" and said Washington would take a 25% cut of sales. Still, analysts warn Beijing's planned curbs could blunt the impact of that decision—and echo an earlier disruption that cost Nvidia about $5.5bn this year when exports were restricted. Read More

🫁 Experimental Drug Cuts Lung Cancer Death Risk by Half BioNTech and OncoC4 announced that their experimental drug gotistobart cut the risk of death by 54% versus standard chemotherapy in patients with previously treated squamous non-small cell lung cancer. The finding, if confirmed in the pivotal stage, could represent a significant new option for a patient group with very limited treatments. Read More