Some jobs are starting to move to 4-day workweeks, but there hasn't been any increase in the number of 80% jobs - 32 hour jobs at 80% salary. These types of jobs would be a low-risk proposition that many people in tech would likely take if it were an option. 80% jobs offer many benefits for both employers and employees, even though they may cost more in terms of overhead. Another option is to offer 90% jobs, giving workers an extra day off every two weeks.
Compliance is mission critical. So is your product roadmap. How do you maintain customer trust AND prevent engineering teams from getting sidelined with tedious, repetitive compliance tasks?
SpaceX's upcoming Starlink for mobile phones will give customers access to LTE text, voice, and data across the globe. It will be able to service unmodified smartphones. SpaceX was originally hoping to launch with T-Mobile, but the companies have been silent about the deal since its announcement. The new Starlink for mobile website indicates that SpaceX plans to launch the voice and text service in 2025.
OpenAI plans to introduce major updates to its API next month, including memory storage and vision capabilities. The new features are expected to be rolled out at the company's first-ever developer conference on November 6. They are designed to attract more developers to pay for access to OpenAI's models. OpenAI is aiming to hit $1 billion in revenue by 2024.
Up to 18 children from the UK, Spain, and the US are being recruited for the world's first trial of a gene therapy to cure auditory neuropathy, a condition caused by the disruption of nerve impulses traveling from the inner ear to the brain. The condition can be caused by a variation in a single gene that produces a protein that allows inner hair cells in the ear to communicate with the hearing nerve. The study aims to deliver a working copy of the gene using a modified non-pathogenic virus. Participants will be monitored for five years to gauge whether the treatment works.
The 69th Annual IEEE International Electron Device Meeting is set to start on December 9. This article presents a teaser of some of the technologies that will be presented at the conference. Chip companies can no longer keep on increasing transistor density by scaling down chip features in two dimensions, so they are now stacking chips on top of each other and building transistors on top of each other within chips. Many of these technologies will likely serve machine learning, an application with an ever-growing need for more processing power.
A clear, friendly guide to mastering the hot new category in cloud-native security that's taking the industry by storm. Wiz partnered with Wiley to create the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) for Dummies eBook. This free 48-page PDF includes everything you _need_ to know
Relative color syntax is a powerful color feature from CSS Color Level 4 in Chrome 119. It creates a smooth path for color manipulation within CSS and offers ways to lighten, darken, saturate, desaturate, and more. Relative color syntax can be used to create a brand color with any color space or syntax and create half opacity variants with much less code. It makes it easy to read the intent of styles and systems. This post helps readers learn the syntax by demonstrating common color manipulations.
This article contains a list of VS Code optimizations that make things easier for developers. Examples include hiding the .vscode folder globally, enabling formatters and linter extensions at the workspace level, and using the built-in terminal. Links to pages with more VS Code tips and tricks are available at the end of the article.
AI is easy - turning a demo into a product is the real challenge. Working with AI is difficult due to having to deal with non-deterministic outputs. Developers get a different result every time they run their code. Evaluating code in AI apps is hard. These issues were key themes throughout the inaugural AI Engineer Summit held this week. This article contains a summary of key takeaways from the summit.
Anyone using the hosted version of WordPress can now connect their blogs to federated platforms like Mastodon. The integration allows blog owners to share their posts on other platforms and receive replies from those platforms. The blogs themselves can be used as fediverse profiles. The feature can be turned on by toggling the 'Enter the fediverse' option from within the Discussion section in WordPress' blog settings.
Caroline Ellison's testimony painted Sam Bankman-Fried as the mastermind behind the FTX fraud and detailed how he manipulated balance sheets, bribed foreign officials, and more.
People with impostor syndrome should view themselves as learning - pay attention to what works and try to understand what's going on when something unusual happens.
A Disney Research team recently presented a brand new robotic character during a keynote address. The robot packs an enormous amount of expression into its child-size body, emoting in a way that makes it seem uniquely alive. It uses a system that leverages reinforcement learning to convert an animator's vision into expressive motions. This article discusses how it was developed and the technology behind it - a video of the robot is available.
The Intermediate Graphics Library is a cross-platform library that commands the GPU. It provides a single low-level interface on top of various graphics APIs like OpenGL, Metal, and Vulkan. The library has been tested for broad device reliability, especially on Android devices as well as the Quest 2/3/Pro. Screenshots are available.
openapi-stack is a collection of libraries and tools for full-stack software development using OpenAPI specification with an API Design First philosophy. It provides a single source of truth for API contracts, type safety and validation, and tools for testing and collaboration. openapi-stack has been battle-tested in production with high test coverage.
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GitHub Copilot costs users $10 per month, but it is costing Microsoft an average of $20 per user per month. Some users are costing the company as much as $80 per month. This is likely why Microsoft decided to charge a lot more for the AI capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot. The costs are also likely why the company is developing its own in-house AI chip sets for its data centers and pushing the adoption of Neural Processing Units across the industry.
Apple has a long history of releasing intriguing first-generation devices followed by second- or third-generation revisions that realize the full potential of the original idea. The company is already working on a next-generation version of its Vision Pro to address early complaints about the yet-to-be-released first-generation model. It aims to reduce the device's size and weight as it is apparently causing neck strain among some testers. The company is also considering changing the way prescription lenses are built into the headset and looking into a lower-end model.
Symbotic and Softbank have created a joint venture called GreenBox Systems that promises to deliver AI-powered logistics and warehousing to small companies. It will provide its services in facilities that different companies will share. GreenBox aims to help companies that can't afford the multi-million dollar investments required to build and operate such facilities in the same way cloud companies make high-end compute tech accessible.
This study is an attempt at developing robot parkour on a small low-cost robot with imprecise actuation and a single front-facing depth camera for perception. It shows how a single neural net policy operating directly from a camera image can overcome imprecise sensing and actuation to output highly precise control behavior end-to-end. The resulting robot is able to high jump on obstacles two times its height, long jump gaps two times its length, do handstands, run across tilted ramps, and more. A video of the robot performing different movements is available.
Datadog analyzed telemetry data from thousands of companies’ serverless applications for its latest research. The report found that serverless is evolving beyond FaaS
GPT Pilot is an AI-powered dev tool that writes scalable apps from scratch. It enables developers to create apps using a description of the kind of app they want to build. GPT Pilot creates apps step-by-step while asking questions for clarification or help when it gets stuck. A video demo is available in the repository.
FTX staff witnessed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto being stolen in real time on November 11, 2022. The company quickly assembled a team to save the assets. It decided to contact BitGo, which had been in talks with FTX for custody of its crypto holdings, to request the immediate creation of cold storage wallets. While BitGo was creating the wallets, FTX temporarily stored its assets on an employee's personal Ledger Nano hardware wallet. The siphoning of funds stopped once the money was moved to the new wallet and the rescued crypto was eventually transferred to BitGo.
This article presents several tips to improve the ergonomics of a programming setup. It makes several product recommendations that can improve the developer experience, for example, Apple's Magic Trackpad for improved comfort and navigation and the Ergodox EZ for a keyboard where users' wrists never have to move. The article also recommends stretching during breaks and managing stress levels by disconnecting from work during non-work hours.
This article presents three models for implementing documentation into a product life cycle and discusses which models are best for different types of organizations.