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Bing users said a ‘new Bing’ interface just appeared — and disappeared — this morning. Microsoft is reportedly integrating OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT into its search engine, with plans to announce the update soon.

Microsoft is reported to be capitalizing on the success of ChatGPT by integrating the AI chatbot into its search engine Bing. But what might that look like? We may now have some idea, thanks to Bing users who said a new, AI-assisted version of the search engine mysteriously appeared (and disappeared) earlier today.

Student and designer Owen Yin reported seeing the “new Bing” on Twitter this morning.

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Astronomers discovered a world beyond our solar system, a exoplanet, that is around the size of Earth and could possibly harbor conditions that might allow life to thrive. It’s called Wolf 1,069 b.

Colossal Biosciences, a genetic engineering company focused on de-extincting past species, has announced $150 million in Series B funding, which it plans to use for bringing back the iconic dodo.

The resurrection of several extinct species is predicted to occur within the next five years. One company aiming to make that a reality is Texas-based startup Colossal Biosciences, founded in 2021 by some of the world’s leading experts in genomics. In May 2022, it appeared in the World Economic Forum’s list of Technology Pioneers and it won Genomics Innovation of the Year at the BioTech Breakthrough Awards.

And the impending singularity may spell our end even sooner.

Permanent color poster-size electronic display is a reality but it comes at steep price.

New concepts funded by NASA may seem like science fiction, but they could change how we explore space. Some ideas include a space plane on a Saturn moon, self-growing bricks on Mars and telescopes that reveal invisible aspects of the universe.

A new compact multispectral sensor is able to dramatically improve the accuracy of a smartphone camera’s color reproduction.

The world’s biggest commercial aircraft makers seem increasingly convinced that autonomous passenger flight is a question of when, not if.

Where it stands: Flying today’s high-tech passenger jets is often a matter of setting up and overseeing their autopilot and other automated systems — but we’re not yet at a point where computer systems can entirely replace human pilots.

Driving the news: “Autonomy is going to come to all of the airplanes eventually,” Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun told Bloomberg TV at an event this week marking the delivery of the last commercial 747.

Kurt “The CyberGuy” Knutsson details the design and features of the REGENT Seaglider and also explains the benefits of the electric aircraft.