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OpenAI is holding a developer conference on November 6. It will be unveiling major updates to ChatGPT, including custom chatbots, a business subscription, and connections to Google and Microsoft. A complete list of upcoming features has been leaked on X. This article discusses these upcoming features, which include a new tool called Gizmo that can create and manage custom chatbots.
xAI has launched an AI chatbot called Grok. The chatbot is able to answer questions that other AIs might dodge. Grok is still in an early beta phase as it has only had two months of training. It is available to a select number of users. A link to the waitlist to sign up for a chance to use the bot is available in the article. Grok will be a feature for X Premium+, which costs $16 per month.
Diamond Foundry is producing synthetic diamond wafers for use with silicon microchips. Using synthetic diamond wafers allows silicon chips to run at least twice as fast as their rated speed. Intel is producing purified glass for substrates. The glass is being used to improve power efficiency and communication between chips. These types of new technologies may be the next great turn in the hardware manufacturing industry.
Scientists working at the world's largest fusion reactor, Japan's JT-60SA experimental reactor, have achieved first plasma. The reactor was successfully switched on, but it is still a long way from being able to carry out any meaningful tests or produce any power. Lessons learned from operating JT-60SA will guide the development of ITER, the first fusion reactor expected to generate more power than it uses. JT-60SA is expected to reach full power in the next two years.
While coding is a crucial part of the software development profession, it is just the tip of the iceberg - the software development role combines many different skills, mindsets, and disciplines. The difference between a developer and a great developer is the breadth and depth of their approach to delivering value. This article looks at what makes a great developer. Topics covered include focusing beyond the code, efficiency, the joy of tinkering, tech detox, and the art of approximation.
Docusaurus helps developers build documentation websites with minimal effort. Meta Open Source has released a new major version of Docusaurus with exciting new features and upgraded dependencies. The release contains some breaking changes. This article goes through some of the highlights in the release.
Joining a startup can be exciting as you can see your work make a real direct impact and you can grow in ways that you aren't able to in other companies. The biggest reason people join startups is for the potential reward if the startup makes a successful exit. The earlier you join, the bigger your reward - joining too early increases the risk you end up with nothing, and joining too late may mean a significantly smaller payout. This article looks at this issue and discusses the optimal trade-off between risk and reward.
YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers is now in full swing, affecting virtually anyone who uses an ad blocker all around the world. Using ad blockers violates the platform's policies. The crackdown has resulted in hundreds of thousands of uninstalls for ad blockers. Some users have found that switching ad blockers temporarily stops YouTube's anti-ad blocking behavior.
A team at X is building a marketplace for people to buy usernames unused by the people who originally registered them.
Companies that achieve product/market fit exhibit the same prototypical metrics curves and subjective experiences.
Orchestration is a crucial tool for getting AI applications to the shipping point.
SpaceX is aiming to conduct its second flight test of the Super Heavy rocket and its Starship upper stage in mid-November.
The number of each CPU core type has diversified with the M3 Pro - this article looks at some of the factors involved in comparing CPU performance across Apple's expanded range of M-series chips.
This article contains a brief recap of the major developments in the AI research, industry, and open-source space in 2023.
Intuit's budgeting app Mint is shutting down. Mint will be absorbed into Intuit's Credit Karma on January 1. It is unclear whether Credit Karma will receive the budgeting features Mint is known for. Mint offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Credit Karma offers similar features, but it doesn't have the same budget tracking tool.
Elon Musk announced on Thursday that SpaceX has achieved breakeven cash flow. It is unclear whether the milestone was hit on an operating basis or for a specific time period. SpaceX's valuation is now at around $150 billion. Musk is considering spinning off Starlink and making it public through an initial public offering likely after 2025.
The Matic is a fully autonomous robot vacuum that can clean floors without getting stuck on cables or toys. It processes things visually instead of spatially, making it less prone to common robot vacuum pitfalls. Mapping is all done on-device, so it doesn't require an internet connection to run. The Matic is now available for preorder with delivery planned for March next year.
Researchers have been puzzled for years over the fact that water held in hydrogels evaporates at a significantly higher rate than could be explained by the amount of heat that the water was receiving. New research has concluded that under certain conditions, light can directly bring about evaporation without heat at an even more efficient rate than with heat. The phenomenon may play a role in the formation and evolution of fog and clouds, so climate models will need to consider the new factor to improve accuracy.
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Chrome 120 is now available in beta. It includes many updates for Chrome Extension developers. Extensions can now manage collections of user scripts and determine when and how to inject them on web pages. The limit on enabled static rulesets has been raised to 50, and the total number of allowed static rulesets is now 100. Chrome 120 adds the ability for extensions to create, read, update, and delete reading list entries. More on the update is available in the article.
tailspin is a log file highlighter. It allows users to view any log file of any format without any setup or configuration. tailspin highlights numbers, dates, IP addresses, UUIDs, URLs, and more. All highlight groups are customizable. tailspin is easy to integrate with other commands.
Bill Gates participated in a fireside chat at Chatham House in London last month. The conversation centered around climate change and global development and why they both demand urgent action. Gates believes that it's not enough to make the planet livable, we also need to make it a better place to live. This article contains a transcript of the conversation.
Typing in qwerty can be uncomfortable, so Jonas Hietala set out to design his own keyboard layout. The main goals for the project were to relieve his RSI and to optimize the layout for his usage. Hietala used a Ferris split keyboard with 34 keys to create his final setup. This article goes through his experience in creating a custom layout and discusses his learnings from the project.
He faces up to 115 years in prison.
DoltgreSQL is a Postgres-flavored version of Dolt, a version-controlled SQL database.
The PC market is likely to remain split for a long time to come, with Apple continuing to capture the bulk of segment profitability.
Geist is a new font family for Vercel.
NASA has launched an app with augmented reality features and an interface for learning more about the International Space Station.
Stable 3D, currently available in private preview, is an AI-powered app that generates textured 3D objects for modeling and game development platforms.
Google only shows ads on about 20% of queries. One of the company's most closely guarded secrets - which search terms make the most money - was revealed during the company’s antitrust trial this week. While the list only shows data for a week in September 2018, it's the first time anything like this has been revealed before. The top 20 queries from that list are available in the article. The top three queries by revenue were ‘iPhone 8’, ‘iPhone 8 Plus’, and ‘auto insurance’.
A new report shows how far Apple wants to go into healthcare and explains why it hasn't gotten there yet. The company’s ambitions have been slowed in parts by concerns that mistakes in the field of healthcare could tarnish its public perception. Another obstacle has been getting FDA approval for its technologies. This article details some of the health features that Apple has considered releasing over the years.
The Dream Chaser spaceplane is almost ready to fly. The plane's foldable wings and fuselage are covered in ceramic tiles to shield the spacecraft from the heat of atmospheric reentry. It will be the first commercial spaceplane capable of orbital flight. The ride back down to Earth will be at no more than 1.5 Gs. Each spaceplane is designed for a minimum of 15 flights. It will be able to haul up to 12,000 pounds into space and bring back about 4,000 pounds of cargo.
40% of people faint at least once in their lifetime. Researchers have discovered a neural pathway that connects the heart to the brain stem that, when activated in mice, causes them to become immobile almost immediately. This pathway may hold the key to understanding fainting. Further study of the pathway could inspire new treatment approaches for fainting due to cardiac causes.
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Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML. The service allows customers to buy access to Nvidia GPUs for a defined amount of time. Customers will be able to reserve and schedule GPU instances for future dates for just the amount of time required. The price to access these resources will vary depending on supply and demand.
Bear Blog doesn't use client-side JavaScript. This post describes how it logs traffic without using JavaScript or server logs - only CSS. The site triggers a CSS rule whenever a user hovers their cursor over a page that makes a URL request to record data. The resulting system can track unique users without storing IP addresses un-hashed. The code for the system is available in the article.
Windows Mobile came too early - Android had the benefit of copying the iPhone, while Microsoft started development in 2000 with the Pocket PC 2000 operating system. Apple was able to invent the future by considering what the core functions of a cell phone would be years later. AI could be going down the same path as Window Mobile, especially with Biden's recent executive order, which is rooted in the past yet arrogant about an unknowable future, proscriptive instead of adaptive, and the most cynical attempt at regulatory capture the tech industry has ever seen.
The Biden-Harris administration has issued an executive order on artificial intelligence that is about 20,000 words long. The order tries to address the entire range of AI benefits and risks and will likely shape every aspect of the future of AI. This article takes a look at some of the policies in the executive order and how they may impact openness in AI.
Disney is buying up Comcast's stake in Hulu for an expected $8.61 billion.
This repository contains LangChain templates that serve as a set of reference architectures for a wide variety of popular LLM use cases.
Distil-Whisper is a distilled version of Whisper that is 6 times faster and 49% smaller.
Microsoft's Phi 1.5 model is now multimodal, meaning it can view and interpret images.
Preliminary benchmark results indicate that the entry-level M3 chip with an 8-core CPU performs up to 35% faster than the M1 and 20% faster than the M2.
Netflix will make every fourth episode ad-free during binge-watching sessions.
Apple revealed brand new Macs with the latest version of the company's in-house chip at its Scary Fast event. Apple's M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips are the first PC chips made using the 3-nanometer process. They come with an updated GPU that supports ray tracing, mesh shading, and Dynamic Caching, a memory optimization feature. The new Macs include a 24-inch iMac, 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros, and an entry-level MacBook Pro.
WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week as it struggles with a massive debt and hefty losses. Its shares have fallen roughly 96% this year. The company is considering filing a Chapter 11 petition in New Jersey. It had entered into an agreement with creditors for temporary postponement of payments for some of its debt, but the grace period is nearing an end.
Superlensing is a way to see things that are smaller than the wavelength of light. Two researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute recently developed a superlensing technique that doesn't require any actual lenses. They achieved this by using calculations on electromagnetic field recordings. While the method is not the first nor the highest resolution technique available, it is much faster and less costly than other techniques.
A group of influential funding agencies called cOAlition S has been pushing for change in the scholarly publishing world over the past five years by pressuring journals to allow immediate open-access publishing. Its most recent proposal puts forward an even broader transformation in the dissemination of research. The group's new goal is to make all versions of an article and its associated peer-review reports be published openly from the outset without the authors paying any fees and for the authors to decide when and where to first publish their work.
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