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1. X pushes more users to Communities

   X users will now be able to discover posts from new Communities that are trending directly from an Explore tab within the section.

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2. Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand?

   For Mark Zuckerberg’s 40th birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted re-creation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appropriately childish — a lava lamp, a participation trophy, a white stuffed dog — yet the surroundings foreshadow the culture-shifting, technological force Zuckerberg would […]

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3. Strava taps AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, unveils ‘family’ plan, dark mode and more

   Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new 'family' subscription plan, dark mode and more.

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4. Astronauts fall over. Robotic limbs can help them back up.

   We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, causing them to trip over themselves. The answer to this very specific issue may well be robotic limbs. They won’t prevent […]

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5. Microsoft’s custom Cobalt chips will come to Azure next week

   Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s executive VP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, directly compared Cobalt to AWS’s Graviton chips, which have been available to developers […]

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