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Xiaomi 12S Pro will be the company’s first flagship without Qualcomm
In the second half of the year, Xiaomi plans to announce a number of flagships, including Xiaomi 12S and Xiaomi 12S Pro. Previously, it was assumed that these models will receive a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus single-chip system, but now new information has appeared.
The information was shared by the Xiaomiui resource, which reports that Xiaomi 12S Pro will be built on the basis of the Dimensity 9000 single-chip system. Speaking of the new product, the publication calls it Xiaomi 12S Pro Dimensity 9000 Edition. This suggests that the smartphone will be available in versions with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus and Dimensity 9000.
Presumably, Xiaomi 12S Pro and its younger version (Xiaomi 12S) may go on sale in late July or August this year. The source says that smartphones will not enter the global market and will remain exclusive to China.
According to the information provided by the authoritative source of information Digital Chat Station, the brand has also prepared the Max version of Xiaomi 12 Pro. According to the characteristics, the device will be similar to Xiaomi 12 Pro, but will receive an enlarged screen of an unknown diagonal.
Lu Weibing, general manager of the Redmi brand, recently posted a message on Weibo in which he confirmed that new Redmi Note series smartphones are on the way. The Redmi executive noted that the company will stick to the strategy of releasing two series of Note devices within a year. Thus, smartphones of the Redmi Note 12 family will debut in the current half of the year, and Redmi Note 13 devices can be expected in the second half of 2022.

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.
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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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