The world’s most famous magician invests in data storage startup that wants to send 100GB disks to the Moon for future humanoids

Legendary magician David Copperfield is throwing his weight behind efforts to scatter human knowledge across the breadth of the solar system for future generations to discover. The Arch Mission Foundation (AMF) has already planted a nickel-based nanofiche disk on the Moon’s surface, with such archives serving as a backup for the wealth of human knowledge.  … Read more

Snapchat now has over 5 million paying users for Snapchat+

Snapchat announced today its subscription service for power users, Snapchat+ has now topped 5 million subscribers — a figure that’s up from 4 million in late June and 3 million in mid-April. Now over a year old, the $3.99 per month subscription offering provides access to a sizable handful of exclusive features, including custom app … Read more

Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3: everything we know so far about the budget laptop

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Microsoft’s big event in New York City is today, which we are closely following in in our Microsoft Surface Event liveblog, and the company just announced the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 3, complete with 15 hours of battery life and a performance that’s 88% faster than the original. Speculations around the launch of new devices … Read more

GitHub expands Copilot Chat access to individual users

GitHub is expanding its generative AI-powered coding chatbot to more users with the launch of Copilot Chat, which remains in beta, to individual customers. Previously, the beta version was only available to GitHub Copilot for Business customers, but from September 20, the chatbot is available to all customers across Visual Studio and VS Code. The … Read more

Khosla-backed HealtifyMe introduces AI-powered image recognition for Indian food

Indian health and wellness startup HealthifyMe has introduced an AI-powered feature that recognizes Indian food from images for calorie intake logging, allowing users to track their meal intake more efficiently. Tracking Indian foods through images is challenging given there is a vast variety of cuisines. Also, a number of people eat on a plate called … Read more