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Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…

Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil https://vegconomist.com/agriculture-agribusiness/study-shows-plant-based-agroforestry-could-double-rural-income-brazil/

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study presented at the COP30 summit in Belém has found that shifting from livestock farming to plant-based agroforestry can significantly increase the

Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands
Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands.
🐧 https://itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-cli-tools/<…

Better Than Original? 14 Rust-based Alternative CLI Tools to Classic Linux Commands
Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands.

By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte,
a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries
that retain performance down to subzero temperatures
https://pme.uchicago.edu/news/breakthrough-advances-sodium-based-battery-des…

Breakthrough advances sodium-based battery design
By stabilizing a metastable form of sodium solid electrolyte, a new technique creates all-solid-state sodium batteries that retain performance down to subzero temperatures

Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 58228 nodes and 428156 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed…

Hong Kong-based RedotPay, a fintech focused on stablecoin-based payments, raised a $107M Series B led by Goodwater Capital, bringing its total raised to ~$200M (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382729/redotpay-series-b-stablecoin-payments…

Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/17/astra-nova-raises-usd48-3m-to-grow-web3-ai…

Astra Nova Raises $48.3M to Grow Web3, AI Entertainment Ecosystem
The company develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences.

Google launches CC, an experimental AI assistant that delivers a personalized daily "Your Day Ahead" briefing email based on users' emails and calendar (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/845280/google-cc-morning-briefing-gemini…

Google wants its AI assistant CC to replace your morning scroll
Google’s AI agent CC is similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse, delivering a personalized morning briefing based on your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive.