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New stablecoin with a declared yield of 30% per annum
TRON ($TRX) is a $6.35 billion cryptocurrency launched by Justin Sun in 2017, ahead of many other popular cryptocurrencies.
The TRON blockchain runs on the Proof-of-Stake protocol. The value of the TRON coin in January 2018 reached an all-time high of $0.29. Market capitalization at the moment is almost 8 billion US dollars. The network has 88 million user accounts, of which 21 million were active in April 2022.
The new stablecoin will be algorithmically secured, similar to the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST). Fiat-backed stablecoins, such as USD Coin (USDC), are backed by the equivalent dollar amount in a bank and securities. Algorithmic-type stablecoins, on the other hand, are not backed by physical dollars, but instead use a crypto fund to balance the supply and demand of the token.
The popularity of TerraUSD, another stablecoin from Terra, has changed the game for the Terra blockchain and the price of the LUNA cryptocoin. Today, Terra pays 19.5% annual return (APY -annual percentage yield, an annual rate of return on investment, taking into account compound interest that accumulates or grows with the balance) on TerraUSD stored in its Anchor Protocol. This measure has played a significant role in attracting users to the network. TRON raises rates and offers 30% per annum on the USDD stablecoin, which will reportedly be launched as early as tomorrow – May 5th.

Gaming
Now for game designers: ChatGPT in the Unity editor will help create games

A user named keijiro introduced a very interesting concept – the ChatGPT deep learning model in the Unity editor for creating games. With this system, the generation of game scenes and environments has become easier, since you only need to set a text query. The project is called AICommand.
At the same time, the author honestly admits that this is only a concept, not a finished product, the whole system does not always correctly understand requests, which will lead to errors in the game. However, in general, this is a rather curious tool that can potentially improve the work of game designers.
The author notes that Unity version 2022.2 or newer is required to work, no other requirements are given. The project itself is available on GitHub.
Note that earlier another generative one has already been able to replace musicians, creating music based on images.
News
Five Planets Alignment 2023: Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars and Venus line up on March 28

At the end of this month, the five planets of the solar system, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars and Venus, will be visible from Earth as they line up in a small patch of sky shortly after sunset. This will happen on March 28th.
All 5 planets will be visible in the sky quite well. The brightest planets will be Mercury and Jupiter, which will be visible above the horizon, as well as Venus, which will be slightly higher. Mars will be less visible, and in order to see Uranus, you will need binoculars.
Two or three planets located next to each other in the sky can be observed quite often, and a similar parade occurs less often (it was in 2022, 2020 and 2016).
Last year, northern hemisphere stargazers had the amazing opportunity to observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn at the same time. Last year, residents of the northern hemisphere of the Earth could watch the alignment of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Several more similar events are expected in 2023. So, in April it will be possible for Mercury, Uranus, Venus and Mars to line up next to each other. Mars, Venus, Uranus and Mercury are expected to align in the same month.
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Midjourney smells of racism: the neural network created a provocative image

We have repeatedly written about how the Midjourney neural network has progressed over the past year. The quality of the generated images has reached a whole new level. Often, Midjourney’s work can be confused with photographs.
However, this note is about something else: the Midjourney neural network was asked to generate an image for the query “White man robbing store”, clearly implying that we are talking about a robber with a light skin color.
What Midjourney was “thinking” about, one can only guess. It is unlikely that the neural network believes that whites have never robbed stores. However, in the end, Midjourney issued an image of a black man in a white tracksuit and a white balaclava.
So far, no accusations of racism have been filed against the developers of Midjourney. In fairness, it is worth adding that, at the request of iXBT.com, the neural network produced the following pictures:
You can see how Midjourney developed by drawing cats here.
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