Alex Dobrenko

☝️ Uber Eats is partnering with Cartken, an AI company founded by a team of ex-Google engineers, to use sidewalk robots for food deliveries in Miami, FL.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the best book covers of 2022, as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the best Northern Lights photographs of 2022, as chosen by My Modern Met.

🤖🗣 It’s been two weeks since ChatGPT was made public via OpenAI’s website. Since then, the AI chatbot has already garnered more than one million users

☝️ You’re looking at one of National Geographic’s 2022 Pictures of the Year; the image is a combination of 44 photos showing a sunrise, a full moon, and a rare alignment of four planets in Bear Ears Mountain National Park, Utah.

☝️NASA’s Orion capsule, part of the Artemis I mission, made its final pass around the Moon this week and snapped these high-res photos of the lunar dark side.

☝️ You’re looking at a private island in Palm Beach, FL, that just hit the market with an asking price of $218 million; the man-made island features a 21,406-sq. ft. mansion with 11 bedrooms and 15 full bathrooms.

🔥 The TIME Person of the Year, 1 in 4 US millennials moved back in with their parents this year, and the quiet disappearance of the safe deposit box.

☝️ After 53 years and more than 1,570 planes, the last Boeing 747 rolled off the assembly line in Washington state yesterday; the iconic plane has slowly been replaced over the past 15 years by more fuel-efficient models.

☝️ You’re looking at the remains of a supernova triggered when a massive star reached the end of its life, thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

☝️The Pentagon unveiled its brand-new stealth nuclear bomber, the B-21 Raider, on Friday; priced at ~$700 million a pop, the B-21 is America’s first new bomber in 30+ years; exact details are scarce, but officials said the plane was built with next-gen tech designed to evade the most sophisticated radars.

🗣🤖📖 Earlier this week, Amazon launched “Create with Alexa,” a new AI tool for kids that generates animated stories. Though a better name may have been “Madlibs with Alexa,” given how the feature – which is only available on Echo Show devices for now – actually works.

☝️ You’re looking at Giphy’s most popular gif of 2022, showing Emmy-winning actress Zendaya in HBO’s Euphoria.

🔥 NYC is hiring a new rat czar, Twitter has seen a mass exodus of employees, and how WALL-E invented the iPad.

💰🏘 Yesterday, Airbnb launched a program allowing renters at 175 different apartment buildings across 25+ cities to list their apartments on the company's rental platform – but not in the shady, hopefully my landlord doesn’t discover I’m doing this way.

🪖 The Pentagon could only account for 39% of its $3.5 trillion worth of assets in the 2022 fiscal year, failing its fifth audit in a row (and fifth audit of all time).

☝️ The global population emits 37.4 billion tons of CO2 each year, per Our World in Data; the above map shows where all those emissions come from. Click for more stories you should know for today.

🔥 A breakthrough in the search for a universal flu vaccine, date nights are getting pricey in the US, and an island where you can pay for real items with Pikachu coins.

☝️ You’re looking at some of the finalists for the this year’s Natural Landscape Photographer of the Year award.