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Reminder not to take any fortune cookies or glowing amulets from a stranger today — it’s Friday the 13th. In other news...

• Teslas are getting third-party apps. Can’t wait to see what will launch next!
• PlayStation’s accessibility controller is coming. Pre-orders are open.
• Netflix House to open in 2025. Netflix will have permanent retail sites with rotating installations. If you see this: 〇△☐, run.

Well, hello there. Below, we’re talking about cool stuff that came out of Adobe MAX 2023, but here’s what else is open in our tabs this morning.

• Atlassian is acquiring Loom for $975 million. Props to this community for being early adopters.
• BMW is working on hands-free driving. We like this idea SO much more than a heated seat subscription.
• Birkenstock had its IPO. We don’t comment on financials here, but we do support founder vibes.

Gm, all. In this morning's news, we’re reading less about robots and more about AI’s impact on everything it touches.

• Visualize how transformers work. A slick site to understand LLMs.
• ChatGPT hit 15.6 million downloads. How many are from our own readers? 🙋‍♀️
• Tesla’s building a home for its supercomputer. I think of it as a big brain for all those self-driving Teslas.

We’re trying something new and have rounded up even more tech news – only the best from our own #tech-news Slack channel at Product Hunt.

• Disney made a real WALL-E: Hello, new fren. 🥺
• Google Japan made a giant keycap: It’s open-source. DIY Halloween costume sorted.
• Personal flight is here: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a “jet ski in the sky.”
• OpenAI has chip ambitions: Your yearbook photos are putting a strain on GPU.
• Amazon Prime Day is now: Reading Wirecutter’s round up and asking myself, once again, if I want to remain in Apple’s walled garden.

Spacesuits are cool. We all know that. But they can always get cooler. 

Prada has partnered with NASA to build spacesuits for the next moon mission in 2025. Don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the Paris Fashion Week reveal.

Another AI app is going viral, this time for its feature that uses AI to create yearbook images with your likeness. Didn’t make the cheerleading team? Who says? With EPIK, you’ve got the yearbook photos to prove it.

Meanwhile, Zuck told podcaster Lex Friedman that creating a VR/AR version of a dead person in the metaverse could be a thing.

We’ll bet on anything that lets humans see their likeness again and again.

X (Twitter) news is becoming a common occurrence in this section it seems. X, at the direction of Elon Musk has stripped link previews down to the bare minimum. No more titles, or descriptions, only a single image. It’s being slowly rolled out to its ~500 million users.

Want to tap into the minds of the developers you’re building your product for? You may be surprised to learn a few things that contradict what you’ve heard.

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According to Android Authority, TikTok is planning to launch a paid tier that would remove ads. Leaked screenshots show TikTok prompting users to either decide to stay on the free plan or dish up $4.99 a month for an ads free experience. Would you pay?

Want to tap into the minds of the developers you’re building your product for? You may be surprised to learn a few things that contradict what you’ve heard.

Join us with daily.dev's CEO, Nimrod Kramer, on October 4th to hear his experience and advice around building a developer-facing company. Sign up here.