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Chris Stokel-Walker is a freelance technology journalist and author of YouTubers: How YouTube shook up TV and created a new generation of stars and TikTok Boom: China's dynamite app and the superpower race for social media.

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.09979.pdf General In-Hand Object Rotation with Vision and Touch Figure 1: Rotation over multiple axes by integrating proprioception, vision, and touch sensing. RotateIt is trained in simulation and deployed directly to the real-world, where it generalizes to diverse test objects without the need for fine-tuning

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AI generates video game levels and characters from text prompts

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TOPSHOT - This aerial view shows a deforested farm in Yanonge, 60 km from the town of Kisangani in Tshopo province, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo on September 1, 2022. (Photo by Guerchom Ndebo / AFP) (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO/AFP via Getty Images)

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SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - JULY 31: Jarren Duran #16 of the Boston Red Sox hits a single during the fifth inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on July 31, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)

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