Is Google facing it's biggest threat of the last 25 years? 🚀
Plus we could be one step closer to living on the Moon 🌝
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🚀 Big Tech & Startup
Google just hit the big 25, but could AI be the party crasher? We all "Google" things—over 8.5 billion times a day, in fact. But now Google's search engine monopoly could be at risk, largely thanks to AI's meteoric rise.
Google's influence is so vast that most websites are designed to dance to its algorithmic tune. But this SEO-focused world can be manipulated by content farms churning out clickbait over quality, at the expense of our user experience. Search engines powered by AI, such as Microsoft’s Bing, promise more accurate, user-friendly answers, and if they deliver, Google could find itself on the sidelines. When you consider that the massive deals they took out with tech companies such as Samsung and Apple to become their default search engine, which essentially secured their place as the world’s favourite search engine, are up for renewal relatively soon, it looks like the threat to Google is the biggest it’s ever been in their 25 years.
🔭 Science & Futuristic Tech
We may be one lunar leap closer to calling the Moon our second home, thanks to groundbreaking research from scientists at Bangor University. They've cooked up a fuel that could make long-term lunar living a reality.
NASA's been eyeing a self-sustaining Moon base by 2030, but the energy conundrum has always been a stumbling block. How do you power life in the Moon's unforgiving landscape? Enter Bangor University's game-changing invention: a nuclear fuel cell the size of a poppy seed, dubbed Trisofuel. This tiny powerhouse can fuel a car-sized nuclear generator, making it transportable to the Moon and beyond. With this latest development, it certainly seems to be a matter of "if" but "when" we'll be sending out lunar housewarming invites.
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⚙️ Miscellaneous
Parmesan manufacturers are fighting fakes using microchips 🧀
The US Defense Department has launched a new site for declassified UFO info 🛸
Google have accidentally leaked their new Pixel 8 phone 📞
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