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Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, has a net worth of approximately $1.4 trillion,

The second richest person, Larry Page, holds a net worth of around $302 billion.

The difference between the two is roughly $1.1 trillion.

If you have $1, you are closer to the second richest person in the world than the second richest person is to Elon Musk.

"A large convoy of U.S. Air Force C-17 transport planes is crossing the Atlantic Ocean heading towards the Middle East. The second wave is currently over Europe and moving towards the eastern Mediterranean. These C-17s are transporting troops, heavy weapons, and armored vehicles. This is the largest visible air movement of forces since the start of the war."

Telegram has reached a staggering valuation of approximately $30 billion while maintaining an incredibly lean organizational structure. Founded by Pavel Durov, the company famously operates without a traditional physical headquarters, relying instead on a small, highly efficient core team that works entirely remotely.

Despite this minimal staffing, the platform successfully serves over 1 billion monthly active users across the globe. This achievement has turned the company into a primary case study for how modern technology and a focused mission can scale a global communication tool without the overhead of a massive corporate hierarchy.

The success of Telegram highlights a significant shift in how tech giants are built in the modern era. It proves that a small group of dedicated experts can challenge industry titans, provided they leverage remote collaboration and high-impact engineering to maintain their global reach.

US cost so far since the beginning of the war.

314 trillion digits of π… on a single machine 🤯

A team from StorageReview just set a new world record, calculating π to 314 trillion decimal places in a nonstop 110-day run — perfectly timed for Pi Day (3/14).

What’s wild? They didn’t use a massive cloud setup. Just one Dell PowerEdge server running 24/7 for nearly four months with zero downtime.

In reality, science doesn’t even need that many digits — NASA says ~37 is enough to measure the observable universe accurately. So why push further?

Because it’s not really about π. These runs are extreme stress tests for modern hardware — pushing processors, memory, and storage to their limits, exposing weaknesses and improving systems used in AI, simulations, and big data.

The machine handled insane data flow (~280 GB/s) and still beat previous 300T records with less power and complexity.

There’s still no finish line — π never ends, and neither does the race.

A new smartwatch called O-Boy could become a lifesaver for people traveling in the world’s most remote places.

Designed by the Brussels-based studio Futurewave, the watch can send distress signals directly to satellites, meaning it works even where there’s no phone network — from mountains to open water.

The device acts as a standalone transmitter, giving users a way to call for help far beyond the reach of traditional mobile coverage. Futurewave says the goal was simple: build a smartwatch that can send an emergency alert “even in the most remote corners of the world.”

To make this possible, engineers integrated satellite hardware and antennas into a compact wearable. The rugged design is water-resistant, impact-protected and pressure-tolerant, while rounded surfaces keep it comfortable for everyday wear.

With its black-and-red emergency color scheme and satellite connectivity, O-Boy aims to improve safety for explorers, remote workers and adventurers far from civilization.

Your voice might be giving away more than you think.

A Nov. 19, 2025 study in Proceedings of the IEEE warns AI can extract far more from speech than just the words we say. Beyond emotion or fatigue, computers can analyze tone, cadence and word choice to infer education level, finances, political views — even possible health conditions.

The research, led by Tom Bäckström of Aalto University, highlights serious privacy risks. If a corporation can sense your economic situation from your voice, it could open the door to price discrimination, like higher insurance premiums. If emotional vulnerability or personal traits are detectable, it may enable profiling, harassment or stalking.

The technology isn’t fully in use yet, but the building blocks already exist. From voicemails to recorded customer service calls, our voices are stored everywhere. Speech tech has real promise — but the question is what it learns about us, and who ultimately controls that information.

In 1993, French adventurer Emile Leray was stranded in the Moroccan desert after his Citroën 2CV snapped an axle far from the nearest village. Instead of waiting for rescue, he dismantled the entire car and spent twelve days converting it into a working motorcycle using only the tools and parts he had with him. The improvised machine carried him back to safety and later became a museum piece. If your car broke down in the desert, would you even know where to start?

One of the Winners of the 2026 Sony World Nature Photography Awards

📸 Chung Cheong Wong

The Eye: Window to the Soul
Blakiston’s fish owl is a nocturnal bird of prey that relies on its keen hearing and sight for hunting. This carefully timed photograph captures one of the owl’s eyes, revealed through its flight feathers.

A 13-year-old schoolboy was arrested because of an unfortunate prompt in ChatGPT😢

The kid asked the AI "How to kill a friend in the middle of a lesson?" — the request was caught by the school's security system Gaggle, which immediately called the cops, who then arrested the troublemaker.

It turned out the boy was just joking — he wanted to forward the AI's funny response to a friend who annoyed him.

I think it's funny, don't know about this guy

Guess real or AI?🧠

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal AI agent designed to assist with his role as CEO, helping him retrieve information faster and make decisions without relying on layers of staff.
The tool is part of Meta’s broader push to become an AI-first company, where employees increasingly rely on AI systems for tasks like communication, document analysis, and decision support.
The move highlights a growing trend in tech: using AI not just for products, but to augment high-level leadership and management itself.

Factory is also not an option anymore 😭

AgiBot has for the first time implemented reinforcement learning (RL) in industrial robotics. Together with Longcheer Technology, it transferred its Real-World Reinforcement Learning (RW-RL) system from the lab to a real production line. Now robots can master new tasks in minutes, adapt to changes in parts and conditions without reprogramming, and maintain stable performance. This solution promises to make factories more flexible, speed up line changeovers, and reduce costs, paving the way for "self-learning" industrial systems.

Now, if you can't find job, you can easily become a mayor of New York 😂

Another day - another reveal of the truth... Tesla Optimus are powered by teleoperators. During the last event, the robot did a very humane movement of taking off VR glasses. Maybe the person behind got sick... Maybe, his mom called him to eat dinner 😲

Anyway, some time ago Elon claimed it was all AI operated. I guess it was not😢

This boy man asked ChatGPT to generate a family for him and his girlfriend...

The team of people lostto the AI in the trading tournament from Aster 😂

With a starting deposit of $10,000 per participant, the total losses of the humans amounted to -32.21% ($225,520). The AI lost 4.48% ($13,460).

However, in the "solo" segment, the human won (+$13,650) against the AI (+$8,090).

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