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The JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON, is a format for storing structured data that may be processed one record at a time that works well with Unix-style text processing tools and shell pipelines.

META'S NEW LLM-BASED TEST GENERATOR IS A SNEAK PEEK TO THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT

Meta's new test generator recommends fully-formed software improvements that are verified to be both correct and an improvement to current code coverage.

AI WON'T EAT YOUR JOB, BUT IT WILL EAT YOUR SALARY

Humans may not be able to command a skill premium once they are augmented by AI.

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NVIDIA ADDED $272 BILLION IN MARKET VALUE THURSDAY, THE LARGEST ONE-DAY GAIN EVER

Nvidia recorded the largest-ever single-day jump in market value a day after it announced its quarterly earnings and a sales outlook that exceeded analysts' expectations. The company's value rose 16.4%, adding $272 billion to its market cap. Its market cap now stands at $1.94 trillion. The previous record was set by Meta just two weeks ago - Meta added $205 billion to its market cap after it beat earnings forecasts and announced its first dividend.

REDDIT FILES TO LIST IPO ON NYSE UNDER THE TICKER RDDT

Reddit has filed an IPO with the SEC after a yearslong run-up. The social media site plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RDDT. This will be the first major tech IPO of the year and the first social media IPO since Pinterest went public in 2019. Reddit had $804 million in annual sales in 2023, up 20% from the previous year. Its core business is reliant on online advertising sales from its website and mobile app. Reddit moderators will be allowed to participate in the IPO through the company's directed share program.

VARDA SPACE, ROCKET LAB NAIL FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND SPACECRAFT LANDING IN UTAH

Varda Space Industries' in-space drug manufacturing capsule has finally returned to Earth after more than eight months in space. The capsule landed in the Utah desert, marking the successful conclusion of Varda's first experimental mission to grow pharmaceuticals in orbit. This was the first time a commercial company landed a spacecraft on US soil. The mission launched in June last year and was supposed to just be a month long, but it was extended due to issues obtaining a commercial reentry license.

TEST FLIGHTS ON TAP FOR SPACE PERSPECTIVE’S LUXURY HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOON

Space Perspective could begin test flights of its luxury high-altitude balloon within the next couple of months. The company plans to fly its pressurized capsule unmanned over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Canaveral using a giant high-altitude balloon. Space Perspective plans to start building its second capsule for human test flights during the test program. The company's aim is to eventually offer regular commercial flights carrying paying customers to 100,000 feet, above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere, where the sky will be black.

JSR: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT DENO’S NEW JAVASCRIPT PACKAGE REGISTRY

JSR is a new package registry from the team behind Deno. It has several significant technical divergences from npm. JSR is specifically built for Deno and its content is controlled to prevent squatters and abandoned modules from taking up namespace. Access to JSR is still restricted to a waiting list.

PAGES CMS

Pages CMS is an open-source content management system built for static websites. It allows developers to edit website content directly on GitHub via a user-friendly interface. Pages CMS is intended to be deployed with Cloudflare Pages using Cloudflare Workers for the serverless code.

THE MOBILE S-CURVE ENDS, AND THE AI S-CURVE BEGINS

S-curve products are fueled by novelty. This is why there is a rush of new users without much marketing effort whenever there are major tech releases. There is both high growth and high churn in the early stages of an S-curve. The skills needed to succeed in a late S-curve market are very different. Investors will be looking for products that are radically different. A good design can help differentiate late S-curve products.

BLUESKY OPENS UP FEDERATION, LETTING ANYONE RUN THEIR OWN SERVER

Bluesky, a federated social network that began as a project funded by Twitter under Jack Dorsey, is now allowing anyone to run their own server. Its decentralized model uses a different protocol than the one that Mastodon uses. Federation allows users to host their own data and accounts and make their own rules. There is a growing interest in federated social networks as consumers want to have more control over their personal data.

STABILITY ANNOUNCES STABLE DIFFUSION 3, A NEXT-GEN AI IMAGE GENERATOR

A gallery of images generated by Stable Diffusion 3 is available in the article - the model appears to handle text generation very well.

THE NEW CITY IN CALIFORNIA

Solano County, California, may be the site of the first new walkable city in the US in the last 100 years.

🤯 MIND OFFICIALLY BLOWN

Gemini is able to generate Selenium code to replicate tasks from a recorded screen capture.

SPACEX SEEKS A WAIVER TO LAUNCH STARSHIP “AT LEAST” NINE TIMES THIS YEAR

The first Starship launch of 2024 may be within the next three weeks.

OPENAI’S SAM ALTMAN REVEALED AS ONE OF REDDIT’S BIGGEST SHAREHOLDERS

Sam Altman controls an 8.7% stake in Reddit - 4.5% of its Class A shares and 9.3% of its Class B shares.

WHY PANDAS FEELS CLUNKY WHEN COMING FROM R

This article presents an example of a simple analysis that flows nicely in R which becomes clunky and complicated when using Python and pandas.

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GOOGLE GOES “OPEN AI” WITH GEMMA, A FREE, OPEN-WEIGHTS CHATBOT FAMILY

Google's new family of AI language models, Gemma, are free open-weights models built on technology similar to Gemini. Gemma models can run locally on a desktop or laptop computer. There are two models, one with 2 billion parameters and the other with 7 billion. Each model has pre-trained and instruction-tuned variants available. Google claims the 7 billion parameter model outperforms Meta's Llama 2 7B and 13B models on several benchmarks in math, Python code generation, general knowledge, and commonsense reasoning tasks. This is Google's first significant open large language model release since OpenAI's ChatGPT was revealed in late 2022.

75K LOYAL REDDITORS CAN SNAG SHARES BEFORE REDDIT GOES PUBLIC

Reddit hopes to entice its users to become shareholders to help drive change and make the market more fair to individual traders. 75,000 of the most prolific Redditors will have the opportunity to buy shares before trading starts when the company goes public later this year, possibly as soon as March. The privilege is usually reserved for big investors. Reddit announced its IPO in December 2021, when it was valued at about $10 billion. The site experienced widespread protests in June last year after it killed off many third-party apps by charging for access to its API. Users are still questioning the company's leadership over the decision.

A PEEK AT INTEL’S FUTURE FOUNDRY TECH

Intel has revealed new chip technologies for its foundry customers. The advances include more dense logic and a 16-fold increase in the connectivity within 3D-stacked chips. Intel is moving from being a company that only produces its own chips to becoming a foundry that makes chips for others. This article takes a look at the new technologies that Intel will be offering in its new business model.

NASA FACES A QUANDARY WITH ITS AUDACIOUS LUNAR CARGO PROGRAM

Flying to the Moon is expensive, so NASA decided to reach out to private companies for help. NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program originally aimed to launch its first missions by 2020. Years later, the first vehicles are now ready. Astrobotic's Odysseus lander will attempt to land on the Moon on Thursday. No private company has successfully landed on the Moon yet. If the CLPS program is successful, in a few years, NASA will have laid the foundation for a highway to the Moon.

READYSET

ReadySet is a transparent database cache for Postgres and MySQL. It provides the performance and scalability of an in-memory key-value store without requiring users to rewrite their apps or manually handle cache invalidation. ReadySet can turn even the most complex SQL reads into lightning-fast lookups. It keeps cached query results in sync with databases automatically by utilizing the database's replication stream. ReadySet can be used along with an existing ORM or database client.

PARK UI

Park UI contains components built on Ark UI that work for any JavaScript or CSS framework. The components have sensible defaults that can be easily customized. Park UI ships packages tailored for each supported CSS framework, allowing developers to only install the components they need. Examples for inspiration are available.

I RAN A BACKGROUND CHECK ON A STARTUP

Employers regularly run background checks on potential employees. However, companies don't always make their history public - there's only so much you can learn from career pages and recruiter emails. This article presents an example of what a background check on an employer might look like. The check goes through checking a company's funding rounds, Glassdoor reviews, and court orders. Performing a background check on a company can turn up interesting facts that could help you decide whether you really want to work with them.

THE KILLER APP OF GEMINI PRO 1.5 IS VIDEO

Gemini Pro 1.5 is an enormous upgrade for the Gemini series. The model has a 1,000,000 token context size, much larger than Claude 2.1's 200,000 and gpt-4-turbo's 128,000 token context sizes. While the model can still miss things and hallucinate incorrect details, it is able to process and extract text information from short videos. This article contains an example where Gemini Pro 1.5 is used to extract book names from a short video.

APPLE IS ALREADY DEFENDING IMESSAGE AGAINST TOMORROW’S QUANTUM COMPUTING ATTACKS

Apple's PQ3 cryptographic protocol purports to offer more robust encryption and defense against quantum computing attacks.

NVIDIA POSTS REVENUE UP 265% ON BOOMING AI BUSINESS

A summary of Nvidia's fourth fiscal quarter earnings.

TECH HAS GRADUATED FROM THE STAR TREK ERA TO THE DOUGLAS ADAMS AGE

AI is the most Douglas Adams of all technologies - when technology becomes absurd, we must respond with absurd inventions.

THE TOP 7 BESTSELLING PHONE MODELS OF 2023 ARE ALL IPHONES

The top three phones of 2023 were all the iPhone 14 models, with the iPhone 13 taking the fourth spot before the iPhone 15 models in spots 5, 6, and 7.

THINGS I DON'T KNOW ABOUT AI

A collection of questions about the AI industry and where it is headed.

RETELL AI (38 SECOND VIDEO)

Retell AI turns LLM agents into human-like voice agents that can handle tasks like making appointments with customers.

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AFTER YEARS OF RESEARCH, AN APPLE SMART RING MAY BE IMMINENT

Apple is supposedly getting very close to launching its rumored ring wearable. The company has consistently released smart ring-related patents for several years. A patent from November details a system that lets users control their smartphones and other devices through the use of an external band on the ring. The idea of an Apple smart ring started from rumors in 2007. While the company is apparently considering a launch date for the device, it hasn't indicated how close the launch date will be.

MUSK CLAIMS NEURALINK PATIENT DOING OK WITH IMPLANT, CAN MOVE MOUSE WITH BRAIN

Elon Musk says that the first human to be implanted with Neuralink's brain chip has made a full recovery with no ill effects. The patient is reportedly able to move a mouse around a computer screen by just thinking. Neuralink is working on getting as many button presses on the mouse as possible from thinking. The company has been criticized for releasing information through Musk as he has a huge financial stake in the outcome.

MIND-READING DEVICES ARE REVEALING THE BRAIN’S SECRETS

The development of brain-computer interface (BCI) technology has allowed scientists to learn lessons about the brain that are overturning assumptions about brain anatomy. BCIs allow scientists to record single-neuron activity for a lot of brain areas that were previously not accessible. They also allow for longer measurements compared to classical tools. Advances in artificial intelligence, decoding tools, and hardware have propelled the field forward. This article discusses some of the findings that BCI technology has enabled.

ZUCKERBERG: NEURAL WRISTBAND FOR AR/VR INPUT WILL SHIP "IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS"

Mark Zuckerberg says that Meta's finger-tracking neural wristband will ship as a product in the next few years. The wristband uses a technique called electromyography to sense the neural electrical signals passing through users' wrists, potentially providing zero or even negative latency and perfect accuracy, even in poor lighting conditions. The device could enable low-effort precise manipulation in any scenario, similar to a computer mouse but more versatile and with an extra dimension. Videos of the device are available in the article.

FALSEHOODS JUNIOR DEVELOPERS BELIEVE ABOUT BECOMING SENIOR

Senior developers seem like people who can solve all the problems and know all the answers. It's easy to believe the fantasy that climbing the ranks will somehow result in knowledge, authority, and ease. The reality is much more grounded and rewarding. Advancing in a career is about embracing new sets of complex and nuanced responsibilities. This article looks at falsehoods that junior developers believe about senior developers, showing readers what it really means to be a senior developer.

TEMPEST

Tempest is a PHP MVC micro-framework. It handles as much framework-related code as possible so developers can focus on application code. Tempest doesn't require any config or overhead.

SORA, GROQ, AND VIRTUAL REALITY

The Vision Pro and OpenAI's Sora launched in the same month. At the same time, Groq is showing that real-time inferencing may be more attainable than previously thought. TSMC is pushing to 2nm chips and Intel is making a credible bid to join them. While we are not yet at an iPhone moment when it comes to virtual reality, a lot of the pieces are now in sight. The technology still needs a lot more work, but the path from here is almost clear.

AS YOUTUBE MARKS ONE YEAR AS NIELSEN’S TOP U.S. STREAMING PLATFORM, SENIOR EXECS NICKY RETTKE & TARA WALPERT LEVY TALK NFL, AD INNOVATION AND HOW CREATORS INVADED THE LIVING ROOM: Q&A

YouTube TV just passed 8 million subscribers and YouTube Shorts recently hit 80 billion daily views from more than 2 billion logged-in accounts. YouTube has been the number 1 streaming platform for 12 months in a row. This article contains an interview with Nicky Rettke, VP of Product Management for YouTube Ads, and Tara Walpert Levy, VP of Americas, where they discuss trends in the advertising market, partnerships with media campaigns, creators, and more. Rettke and Walpert Levy have spent more than 30 years combined at the company.

SIGNAL WILL SOON LET YOU SHARE A USERNAME INSTEAD OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER

Signal will soon allow users to connect with others without sharing their phone numbers with them.

SSDS HAVE BECOME RIDICULOUSLY FAST, EXCEPT IN THE CLOUD

Despite the performance improvements in SSD technology over the past seven years, AWS NVMe instances are still stuck at 2 GB/s per SSD.

WALMART IS BUYING SMART TV MAKER VIZIO FOR $2.3 BILLION

The acquisition will enable a profitable advertising business.

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO GAMING ON THE APPLE VISION PRO

The App Store includes some gems that shouldn't be overlooked.

SPAM ATTACK ON TWITTER/X RIVAL MASTODON HIGHLIGHTS ‘FEDIVERSE’ VULNERABILITIES

Mastodon server administrators have been advised to switch over registration to approval mode and block disposable email providers to help combat the problem.