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30-mile-high clouds of acid on Venus are made by the largest 'hydraulic jump' in the solar system

May 14, 2026
A monstrous bank of cloud 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) long that sweeps around Venus every few days is being generated by rising sulfuric acid vapor pushed high into the atmosphere by what is essentially the same phenomenon that describes how water from a running tap spreads out in the basin of your kitchen sink. In 2016, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s Akatsuki mission to…
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OPPO Find X9s, Find X9 Ultra India Launch Set for May 21, Privilege Packs with Freebies Now Live

May 14, 2026
OPPO Find X9s and Find X9 Ultra India launch is set for May 21, as promised by the brand last month. Find X9s and Find X9 Ultra pack 7000mAh+ silicon-carbon batteries, Hasselblad camera systems, LUMO Image Engine, dedicated cooling systems, and more. Here are the details of the launch. OPPO Find X9s, OPPO Find X9 Ultra India Launch The Find X9s and Find X9 Ultra India launch will take place on May…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

May 14, 2026
As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world models that could be used to operate physical robotics or model objects in physical space. Unlike large language models, there isn’t an easy source of data for those models, which has left many labs scrambling to assemble the necessary training sets. Now, one startup is emerging with an unlikely data…
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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats

May 14, 2026
Meta on Wednesday said it is adding the ability to start “incognito” conversations with its Meta AI chatbot within WhatsApp. These conversations, the company said, will be processed in a secure environment and can’t be seen by anyone. Users can start an incognito…
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Rare signed photos of former US Presidents fetch a pretty penny at auction

May 14, 2026
A trove of historic photographs depicting former US Presidents went to auction over the weekend, selling for staggering sums. What made the images so valuable wasn’t just their famous subjects, but the fact that each photo had been personally signed by its subject. The auction, held at Swann Galleries in New York on May 07, featured a “remarkable” collection of 126 original photographs…
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