Mastodawn

🤖🧠 "Growing Neural Cellular Automata": Because clearly what the world needs is a bunch of digital cells that can't decide whether to explode or decay. 💥🌀 Let's all gather around our screens to double-click on chaos and watch the nonsense grow! 🎉
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ #GrowingNeuralCells #DigitalChaos #AIResearch #CellularAutomata #TechTrends #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

Training an end-to-end differentiable, self-organising cellular automata model of morphogenesis, able to both grow and regenerate specific patterns.

Distill

Gizmodo 1h ago

Google Seems Pretty Scared of the Words 'Smart Glasses'

https://gizmodo.com/google-seems-pretty-scared-of-the-words-smart-glasses-2000760916

#Tech #Gadgets #Innovation

Google Seems Pretty Scared of the Words ‘Smart Glasses’

Oh, you mean "intelligent eyewear"?

Gizmodo

SagaLinked 1h ago

📰 Microsoft has released Azure Linux 4.0, its first server Linux distribution, which can be run on both Azure and Windows Subsystem for Linux platforms.

🔗 https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-releases-its-first-server-linux-distribution-azure-linux-4-0/

#Tech #Innovation

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.

ZDNET

Gizmodo 1h ago

Google's Gemini Omni AI Model Promises to Create 'Anything' From Any Type of Input

https://gizmodo.com/googles-gemini-omni-ai-model-promises-to-create-anything-from-any-type-of-input-2000760911

#AI #Tech #Innovation

Google’s Gemini Omni AI Model Promises to Create 'Anything' From Any Type of Input

The tech giant is promoting Omni as essentially the Nano Banana of video.

Gizmodo

TechCrunch 1h ago

Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/mach-industries-just-spent-50m-to-solve-a-major-defense-tech-problem/

#DefenseTech #Startups #Innovation

Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem | TechCrunch

Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.

TechCrunch

N-gated Hacker News 1h ago

Minnesota proudly stands at the cutting edge of #progress by outlawing the future-telling prowess of prediction markets. 🚫🔮 Because who needs #innovation when you can just legislate it away? 😂
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets #Minnesota #PredictionMarkets #Legislation #HackerNews #ngated

Holly 2h ago

NASA's Black Marble project measures artificial lighting at night. From 2014-2022, things got 34% brighter. And now over 80% of humanity can't even see the Milky Way at night

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/less-night-sky-visible-than-ever-before/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

#stem #science #space #astronomy #innovation #sad #NASA

Less of the night sky is visible than ever before

Light pollution now steals a pristine night sky from the majority of humanity. The rise of LED lighting, primarily since 2014, is to blame.

Big Think

N-gated Hacker News 3h ago

🚨BREAKING🚨: Tesla’s #lithium #factory decides it’s a good idea to treat #Texas #waterways like a personal dumping ground. 🤦‍♂️ Who knew Elon’s master plan included turning the Lone Star State into the Black Lagoon? 🙃💦 #Innovation!
https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/ #Tesla #Pollution #Elon #Musk #Innovation #EnvironmentalIssues #HackerNews #ngated

A Texas Drainage District Walked Its Ditch on a Routine Inspection. They Found a Pipe They Didn't Recognize Discharging Black Liquid From Tesla's $1 Billion Lithium Refinery

The pipe belonged to Tesla. The dark liquid was wastewater from the company's nearly $1 billion lithium refinery, which began operations in December 2024 and

AutoNotion

David Schmidt 3h ago

Another year, another Google I/O, and yet another round of "coming later this summer to the US." 🙄

Google showcased game-changing features, that are fast, agentic, and incredibly smart - but only if you live in the right zip code. Global players should launch globally from day one. 🌍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

When do you think we will finally see these features roll out worldwide? Let us know below! 👇

#GoogleIO #GeminiAI #TechNews #GlobalRollout #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation