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• China is pulling ahead in the flying car industry.
• Chinese regulators are fast-tracking approval for eVTOL vehicles.
• Chinese company AutoFlight received the world's first certification for an eVTOL over 1 tonne.

China is leading the pack as the flying car

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DolphiniOS, a fork of the popular Dolphin emulator for Nintendo Wii and GameCube games, has confirmed that it’s not coming to the Apple App Store even though emulators are now supported. In a post on Friday, the developer behind the emulator says it’s because Apple doesn’t allow DolphiniOS to use its underlying performance-boosting tech.

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Amazon is winding down its Prime Air drone delivery program in Lockeford, California — an early testing zone for a service that allowed local residents to order products weighing up to five pounds and get them delivered to their location via drone in 30 minutes.

In the same press release, Amazon

If you’ve been catching up on what’s hip in the social media space, you might have heard of Airchat. It’s the new, big, exclusive, invite-only thing that’s gotten internet residents scrambling for access.

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• Russia and China are investigating ways to disable US satellites, raising defense concerns.
• China is testing satellite grappling technology that can move objects in space without debris.
• Russia is believed to have tested projectile weapons for use in orbit.

Russia and China appear to be actively looking into ways to watch and potentially

• Meta acquired a horde of GPUs in order to change its algorithm, not to build generative AI tools.
• However, Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy twice as many GPUs as Meta needed just in case
• "Our normal principle is there's going to be something on the horizon that we can't see yet."

When Mark Zuckerberg started amassing a large amount of GPUs in 2022, it was

A Russian military court sentenced Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in absentia to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism," Reuters reports. Stone's lawyer reportedly asked for an acquittal and there are plans to appeal the sentence. 

A few months after Russian officials placed him on a wanted list and started a criminal investigation, a Moscow court issued an arrest warrant for Stone

The Voyager 1 spacecraft returned usable data for the first time in more than five months, giving hope for the 46-year-old mission to finally be able to resume its normal operations.

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