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to build a beautiful more personalized website tailored to their unique needs just like we did with linusmediagroup tocom your website has to be special so make use of squarespace's two decades of industry-leading design expertise and cuttingedge design intelligence AI features to unlock your strongest creative potential and your earning potential because Squarespace payments is the easiest way to manage your payments in one place get started in just a few clicks and start receiving payments right away through popular methods like Clara Apple pay and clear pay start building your website today and get 10% off your first purchase at squarespace.com TechLink oh man some of that stuff was way too wacky and wild hey let's bring it back and enjoy some quick bits they're more refined audite good word Qualcomm is working on its second gen Snapdragon X Series S so's which may feature up to 18 CPU cores 48 GB of integrated RAM and support for discrete graphics cards gaming laptops according to reference design scene by German Tech site wind future the chips are reportedly not expected to launch until next year and one of them may be called the Snapdragon X2 Ultra Premium which should solve one of the main reasons not many people picked up the first gen not a long enough name it's got 33.3 repeating per more name words by now tsmc announced this morning it will spend an additional $100 billion dollar to build more chip manufacturing facilities in Arizona the move was also announced later in the day by US president Donald Trump it's unclear whether tsmc agreed to do this to avoid Trump's favorite thing tariffs or whether the move was already planned but either way the us is going to get more chip manufacturing so they can fulfill some of their military leaders dreams of blowing up tsmc if China invades Taiwan they'll be good YouTube is planning to lean more into being a platform where you can subscribe to other streaming services like Paramount plus and Max according to a report from the information YouTube's TV app is being redesigned to display this kind of content on the homepage similar to how Amazon Prime and Apple tv plus also host content from other services so when you scroll through and click on something that you think you can watch because it's listed on the streaming service that you pay for you actually can't watch it you have to subscribe to another streaming service hosted on the first streaming service which is just so convenient and would probably be cool to see how far down the rabbit hole we could take this and Firefly Aerospace has become the first private company to successfully land a craft on the moon a feed it proved by posting this photo of uh I mean uh I guess it's the moon U it it must be the Lander craft called Blue Ghost was also able to capture this photo of the lunar Sunrise which could easily have been photoshopped or AI generated by anyone on their phone look and look this is really cool I just like they took that photo 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