The Daily Index — Monday, October 2, 2023 · TLDR Index

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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CSS SOLVES AUTO-EXPANDING TEXTAREAS (PROBABLY, EVENTUALLY)

CSS has implemented auto-expanding textareas. It is already available in the Chrome Canary with the web experiments flag enabled. It is unknown whether the feature will be usable across all browsers or if it will ship in the same format.

chriscoyier.net · 2 min

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Sam Bankman-Fried apparently wanted to pay Donald Trump not to run for president. He played a video game during his first TV interview. Bankman-Fried was friends with Tom Brady, who reportedly adored him. He was invited to sponsor the Met Gala as a social experiment. Bankman-Fried faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted. His biggest fear is potentially losing access to the internet.

morningstar.com · 3 min

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AVATARS

Meta's Codec Avatars is a research project that aims to revolutionize remote communication using headsets with face-tracking sensors and eventually glasses. A video was recently released showing Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed in VR using the technology. The interview was conducted through a set of Quest Pro headsets, with the interviewer frequently expressing feelings of disbelief at what they were experiencing. The video is available in the article.

uploadvr.com · 2 min

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Pictures of the Humane Ai Pin are available in the article - there still isn't much yet known about what the device actually does.

theverge.com · 1 min

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WEIRD NEIGHBOR

A look at Mozilla's projects and how the company could be a real competitor to Google.

theregister.com · 9 min

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IS AI A PLATFORM SHIFT?

AI turns the marginal cost of content to zero and drastically changes workflows, making it likely to be the next dominant layer on which applications are built.

matt-rickard.com · 4 min