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Tim Cook announced that production of the Vision Pro headset is on track and that the iPhone 15 Pro will be able to capture spatial video for the headset at the Wonderlust launch event.
Margin collapse is when adjacent margins overlap in CSS - understanding the rules behind this mechanism can make writing CSS clearer and less surprising.
The Justice Department claims that Google abused its monopoly power in its search engine business in the first major monopoly case to make it to trial in decades.
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Smart-doorbell pioneer, RING, pitched on the hit show SHARK TANK at a valuation of just $7 MILLION — the sharks shut them down. 5 YEARS LATER, the company sold to Amazon for more than $1 BILLION. Turning the 10% stake initially offered to the sharks from $700K into $100M!
Google's philanthropic arm is investing $20 million in the Digital Futures Project to promote responsible AI development. The initiative supports global institutions, addressing AI's societal impacts. Google.org stresses collaboration for AI's potential benefit.
Adobe, IBM, Nvidia, and others have committed to the White House’s accord on AI safety and trustworthiness, echoing earlier pledges by Meta and Google. These voluntary agreements stress pre-release testing and risk-sharing. AI regulation remains a step behind innovation under the Biden administration.
Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting text from images. It can fail on documents with lots of jargon or special characters like mathematics. This work from Facebook research showcases strong performance across academic domains, enabling the digitization of many old texts.
Researchers were able to train a model to accurately recognize smells by training a graph neural network on a custom data set of thousands of hand-labeled molecules.
This study looked at whether advanced AI writing assistants like InstructGPT were making people's writing sound too similar and potentially making public conversations less diverse.
Researchers have introduced Scenimefy, a new tool to transform everyday photos into detailed anime-style images.
Arcus scales RAG to planet scale by using a hierarchical retriever. After clustering documents into groups based on their semantic content, you can progressively filter over these groups to narrow the search space. This results in much more relevant context being retrieved, fewer hallucinations, and better reliability over planet-scale corpuses of data.
A drop-in replacement for the OpenAI Whisper API that offers 20x faster transcription written in Rust.
Roblox introduced an AI assistant to help creators design virtual experiences at the 2023 RDC. Set for release late this year or early next, the tool will enable advanced gameplay and 3D model generation.
The desire to encourage AI development while limiting potential harm, combined with the breakneck pace of innovation, makes regulating AI an especially tricky situation.
The idea of personalized services beyond what we have around shopping is really interesting. This post breaks down the opportunities and some of the companies already playing in this space.
MLCommons has unveiled a new benchmark for how quickly top-of-the-line hardware can run AI models, with Nvidia coming in first and Intel coming in second.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown criticized the crypto industry for fraud and abuse in yesterday’s SEC senate hearing, arguing for stricter oversight and regulation. SEC chair Gary Gensler continued to voice his skepticism about the sector in the hearing. Brown's stance matters because his approval is critical in passing crypto legislation, potentially shaping the industry's regulatory landscape. Any bills regarding stablecoin or crypto market oversight are unlikely to make it without his support.
Franklin Templeton, a leading asset manager, has entered the race for a Bitcoin spot ETF with the "Franklin Bitcoin ETF". The aim of many of these leading institutions applying for ETFs is to attract large institutional investors, which could potentially bring trillions of dollars into the crypto industry. Franklin Templeton's ETF will be based on a mix of cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin prices to deter price manipulation.
Coinbase Prime has announced the launch of its web3 Wallet, allowing institutional and enterprise clients a secure way to transact on-chain. This new offering provides access to crypto, NFTs, dApps, and DeFi - all through an interface integrated into Coinbase Prime. The web3 Wallet provides customers with an easy way to follow web3 activity.
Mountain Protocol has publicly announced its launch along with USDM following a financing round led by Castle Island Ventures and several others. The token, USDM, is fully backed by short-term US Treasuries and offers a unique yield-bearing system, allowing even non-US users to earn interest in US Treasuries. Mountain Protocol has also secured a digital asset business license from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
In this thread, Punk6529 shares an approach to safeguarding NFTs. He suggests splitting transactions across three addresses: a cold 'Vault' for long-term holding, a 'Transaction' wallet for selling, and a 'Minting' wallet for acquiring new NFTs. This method, called TAP (Three Address Protocol), can help users avoid falling prey to phishing attacks, as it minimizes the risk of a valuable address getting compromised.
This thread attempts to explain why Frax Finance is a standout in the DeFi space. Frax Finances features numerous robust revenue channels, innovation, and long-term viability. The protocol includes Frax stablecoin, FraxSwap exchange, and the FraxLend borrowing system. These, along with FraxFerry bridge service and the upcoming FraxChain L2 solution, help to bolster Frax's ecosystem.
The Bitcoin ecosystem is set to adopt ZK rollups as two new projects, Chainway and Kasar Labs, open source their data availability adapters. ZK rollups provide mathematical validation of transactions without revealing source data, boosting transaction scalability and platform security. Implementation via a Bitcoin soft fork is required for fully trustless bridging. The projects propose the integration of ZK proofs via the Ordinals Protocol, which bypasses a new opcode requirement, improving Bitcoin's flexibility and development potential.
This article predicts that despite current roadblocks, global crypto markets will eventually thrive because they serve to make capitalism more efficient. The author touts the potential of crypto to aid entrepreneurial activities by ensuring digital property rights, creating free markets for all sorts of assets, and speeding up capital flows to match the speed of the internet. This would propel crypto’s growth even in the face of strong headwinds.
Yesterday, a developer compromised $1m from part of the Milady treasury, sparking fear and a sharp sell-off of Milady ecosystem assets.
Vitalik Buterin confirmed his recent Twitter hack that led to $691,000 in stolen assets was the result of a SIM-swap attack, an attack vector that has been heavily utilized as of late.
HK-based CoinEx crypto exchange has suffered a breach, losing 4,946 ETH and 354,762 TRX. CoinEx plans to compensate affected users to remedy the issue.
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, OneCoin co-founder, was sentenced to 20 years and fined $300 million for defrauding 3.5 million investors in 2014. Co-founder Ruja Ignatova remains on the run after making the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list in 2022.
The US federal government now has its own design system crafted to make government online services accessible, legible, and consistent. USWDS is also an active open-source community of government engineers, content specialists, and designers.
Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 9. The watch features the new S9 chip, which enhances performance and introduces a gesture called Double Tap, allowing users to interact with the watch without touching the screen.
Einstein Copilot, a new generative AI conversational assistant, is being integrated into Salesforce's CRM and all supported apps. It will automate account updates, help prepare meetings, generate customized content, and more. The feature will reach other consumer-facing channels, like websites, to power real-time chat, Slack, WhatsApp, and SMS.
People experience charts and graphs in different ways and even with other senses. Alternative text should be used to describe the visualization's purpose. Pairing graphs with a table element enables users to navigate data better. Color and contrast are also vital aspects, but they shouldn't be relied upon as the only way to communicate meaning. It's essential to consider HTML structure, keyboard navigation, and how screen readers will display information to users.
Product designers in SaaS companies and startups face a challenging but rewarding journey in the fast-paced tech industry. They must balance agility with quality, cater to diverse user needs, collaborate closely with development teams, embrace iterative design, and maintain a balance between aesthetics and functionality to shape the future of the tech world.
A practical guide for redesigning design systems with four key steps — develop a stronger understanding of the existing component, explore multiple different applications of the component in the product, rebuild the component with the developers and redesign it in Figma, and put together documentation for the component update as it gets released.
Doodle Ipsum lets you customize doodles, grab the code, and use them on your web prototypes, landing pages, or no-code tools. The tool also brings advanced features, allowing you to add special query parameters.
Hundreds of design resources organized over the years in categories like accessibility, design systems, tools, and content.
There are many different types of illustration and it's challenging to master them all. This list is a good starting point. These ten illustration books cover a range of topics, from the basics of art theory to the secrets of an Oscar-nominated legend.
Adam Glynn-Finnegan, Staff Product Designer at Netflix Studio, shares the most valuable learnings from his career and what separates great designers from good ones. Key lessons: deeply understand the content, describe it in a way that resonates with the individual user, and present it in a highly personalized way. As career advice, Glynn-Finnegan believes in being pragmatic and flexible.
Zara is a global brand that is based in Spain with a broad audience. The company offers its customers an unparalleled shopping experience. This in-depth examination of Zara’s website surfaces problems like overemphasizing the mobile experience, insufficient filtering options, a lack of sorting options, and a lack of consistency with buttons.
CSS gradients can be used on other elements around the hovered element. While hovering over one item, this effect triggers visual changes to other items.
Recreating drop caps in web design hasn’t always been simple, Early implementations were often clunky and required various hacks. Modern CSS makes this easier. Here are eight unique implementations that show what’s possible.
Drawn from a poster seen at the 1989 protest, Vocal Type is a typeface designed to honor those who perished in the Tiananmen Square protests. Created by Tré Seals, the initiative was the result of asking his Instagram followers what movement, person, or event they’d like to see a new typeface pay homage to.
Polypane is a web browser for designers and web developers who need to create websites that work well across different devices and screen sizes. The latest release brings a rebuilt browser panel with its own tabs, search, and autocomplete. It also introduces an online search through the address bar in the redesigned browse panel.
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Trust is a critical part of any deal. Customers, big and small, need to know how you’ll protect their data before they can do business with you. If you’re not prepared, this can lead to lengthy questionnaires, long security reviews, and awkward sales conversations. Use this five-step checklist for busy executives
Payments company Square had an outage on Thursday last week. This happens of course, but the impact on businesses that use Square to take payments can be huge. The event added fuel to the ongoing culture war around migrating to a cashless society.
As a founder, you have to be confident in what you’re doing. That’s how you sell people on the vision to invest in you, work with you, buy from you. However, you need to understand the boundary between confidence and arrogance.
Slowing the pace of innovation allows competitor countries to catch up. Letting innovation run unfettered can unlock a Pandora's Box of problems. This article spins an interesting story that showcases why regulating artificial intelligence is so difficult.
As you scale, the number of integrations you have with providers is going to increase. Your CRM, Finance stack, ERP, and collaboration tools all need to talk to each other. Interoperability between applications is a continuous strategic decision for founders. You need to have an owner of this strategy in your startup.
Selling equity in your startup is the most expensive form of financing. Debt is cheaper, but only accessible under certain circumstances, like when you know your unit economics, have product market fit, and have proven repeatable channels to find customers.
From stepping away from founder-led sales completely to hiring mistakes. Here’s a list of some things you can be mindful of as a founder of a scaling startup that’s in the growth phase.