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…
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/
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/<…
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…
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
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…
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…