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Manual testing on personal devices is TOO SLOW AND TOO LIMITED. It forces teams to CUT RELEASES A WEEK EARLY just to test before submitting them to app stores. And without broad device coverage, issues slip through.
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Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet model is designed to 'think' about questions for as long as users want it to. It can give both real-time answers and more considered, thought-out answers to questions. The model is rolling out to all users and developers, but only premium users will have access to its reasoning features. It will cost $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, making it more expensive than OpenAI's o3-mini and DeepSeek's R1.
Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine company, has launched a sign-up list for its upcoming browser, Comet. There are few details on what the browser will do or what it looks like, but the company calls it 'a browser for agentic search'. Perplexity's product portfolio is growing at a rapid pace - it recently released a 'deep research' product, an AI-powered assistant for Android, and an API for AI search. It has reportedly raised over $500 million in capital from VCs and is said to be valued at $9 billion.
Lunar Trailblazer is set to begin its two year mission when it is blasted into space on a SpaceX Falcon rocket on Thursday. The probe's goal is to seek out water on the lunar surface. Scientists have recently uncovered strong hints that there are significant quantities of water on the surface of the moon. This water could potentially be turned into hydrogen to be used as fuel and oxygen for humans to breathe.
SpaceX is targeting a launch window that opens at 5:30 PM on Friday for its next Starship megarocket test flight, pending regulatory approval. The previous test flight ended with Starship's upper stage disintegrating, prompting cleanup and recovery efforts for fallen debris. SpaceX has implemented numerous upgrades to the upper stage for the upcoming flight to enhance reliability and performance. The mission is expected to last just over an hour and will include another attempt to catch the booster stage using the launch tower.
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Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives inside the terminal. It understands code bases and helps developers code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows, all through natural language commands. Claude Code can edit files, fix bugs, execute and fix tests, search through git history, resolve merge conflicts, create commits and PRs, and more.
JSON has a bunch of pragmatic virtues in a modern UNIX system. It provides a clear and basically unambiguous way to represent text and most numeric data, and it's also generally extensible. There are increasingly more tools to deal with and process JSON and it can generally be transformed to various other formats if needed. Designing a machine-readable output format is somewhat more complicated than it looks - using JSON means that people writing programs don't have to design their own formats.
Amazon is holding a press event this week where it will launch its new generative AI-infused Alexa. The event, which will be hosted by Amazon's new devices and service chief, Panos Panay, is scheduled for 10 AM on Wednesday in New York City. There will likely be new hardware launched at the event, including an updated Amazon Echo speaker and possibly even smart glasses. This article provides an overview of the rumors so readers know what to expect and what not to expect from the event.
Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading Apple's App Store, testified in court that he had originally raised concerns about the 27% commission that Apple planned to charge app developers on purchases made outside the App Store. He had claimed that it would be a potential compliance risk and that the fee would create an antagonistic relationship between Apple and developers. It would also require Apple to have audit rights to check whether companies owe Apple money for transactions that took place outside the App Store. Apple's pricing committee ultimately decided to charge the commission despite Schiller's concerns.
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GibberLink mode allows the two AI agents to communicate much more efficiently as they use audio codes instead of words.
There aren't any details on the second new design, but the rumors seem to support recent teases from CEO Tim Cook and hardware chief John Temus that Apple's iPhone roadmap is more ambitious than ever.
Cash businesses print money, often immediately, but may have limited long-term value, while equity businesses are more like planting a tree - it takes considerably longer to replace your salary, but once you do, those earnings are more durable and the business often has some value of its own.
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A new venture by former Zillow execs is targeting the $1.3 trillion vacation home market, and investors like SoftBank and Maveron are paying attention. Invest in Pacaso at $2.70/share (ends Thursday!)
The new generation of AI models are smarter and the jump in capabilities is striking, particularly in how they handle complex tasks, math, and code.
Germany's Mittelstands are small to medium-sized enterprises that typically have a laser-sharp focus on a single niche in which they excel, making them exceptionally resilient and stable.
Taking a sabbatical allows you to evaluate what's coming next in life.