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Elon Musk apparently vetoed plans for Tesla to build a $25,000 electric car in favor of developing robotaxis. He finally relented when aides revealed a plan to build both a robotaxi and an inexpensive small car side by side. A $25,000 electric car would be a game changer for the auto industry. Tesla's Master Plan always called for using money made from early models to bring down the cost of future vehicles.
Apple will likely unveil this year's newest iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods at its fall event on Tuesday. This page contains a list of the products expected to be announced at the event along with industry reports, analyses, and the latest rumors. It also discusses what likely won't be unveiled at the event but may appear in the near feature.
The life expectancy of someone in the US infected with HIV is currently about the same as the rest of the population. This is largely due to antiretroviral therapy, a daily treatment regimen that decreases the level of HIV in a person's blood to the point it's no longer detectable or transmittable. There have been a handful of people over the last couple of decades that have been able to reach undetectable HIV levels while off treatment, essentially meaning they've been cured of the disease. New universal cures are now on the horizon.
The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) has come to an end. It exceeded NASA's initial goals, demonstrating capabilities that could help future astronauts explore Mars. It will also make it possible to generate oxygen for powering spacecraft. MOXIE has generated 122 grams of oxygen since the experiment kicked off two years ago. It works by converting Mars' plentiful carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for running, building, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Version 1.0 is now available. Bun is a drop-in replacement for Node.js and a JavaScript bundler with an esbuild-compatible plugin API. It also functions as an npm-compatible package manager and a Jest-compatible test runner. Bun can run virtually any Node.js application in the wild.
NGINX Unit is a universal web app server that serves static media assets and runs application code in seven languages. It is intended as a universal building block for any web architecture. NGINX Unit's native RESTful JSON API enables dynamic updates with zero interruptions and flexible configuration. It has a complex asynchronous multithreading architecture that ensures security and robustness.
Flexport founder Ryan Petersen has rescinded dozens of employment offers two days after Dave Clark's departure as CEO. Petersen says that the company is also looking to lease out office space. The moves are intended to get company costs under control. It appears that Flexport is now shifting from a growth at any cost strategy to curbing spending and becoming profitable.
This article contains an adapted excerpt from Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk. The book is set to be published on September 12. This chapter describes Musk's involvement with the company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) project. The newest version of FSD imitates what humans do. This presents some issues, as even the best drivers fudge traffic rules.
Japan has successfully launched a rocket with a lunar lander - the lander will attempt a Moon landing in February if all goes well.
Studios can game Rotten Tomatoes and boost movie ratings.
Elysia is a fast and friendly Bun web framework that automatically infers types from code.
A look into why software prices are surging despite reduced spending - software costs are rising as budgets tighten, and companies are still waiting for long term investments to pay off.
This article contains advice on how to pass job interviews from someone who has completed more than hundred interviews as an interviewer at Amazon, Meta, and Datadog.
This document is a collection of resources on the different aspects of frontier model training created to help people learn about the field and use the information to help inform their own models.
Chrome is getting a big redesign to celebrate its 15th birthday. The redesign will bring Google's 'Material You' design language to Chrome. Other updates from the latest version of Chrome include a more comprehensive menu, an upgraded Safe Browsing blocklist, and AI in the sidebar. Screenshots of the redesign are available in the article.
Cruise, a company backed by GM, is set to soon begin mass production of its fully autonomous vehicle, pending regulatory approval. The vehicle will not have a steering wheel or pedals. Its lack of traditional human controls means that Cruise requires an exemption from the federal government's motor vehicle safety standards. The government body responsible for processing the exemption is expected to make a decision on the matter soon, maybe even before the end of the month.
Scientists from the Weizmann Institute have grown embryo models that resemble real early human embryos without using sperm, eggs, or a womb. The embryo models look like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. They release hormones that turn pregnancy tests positive in the lab. Realistic embryo models could provide an ethical way for scientists to study the earliest moments of life. The scientists claim that it would be impossible to achieve a real pregnancy using their embryo models.
Researchers have created human-pig chimeric embryos that, when transferred to surrogate pig mothers, were shown to have kidneys that contained mostly human cells. This is the first time that scientists have grown a solid humanised organ inside another animal. The kidneys are not able to be used for transplantation in their current form as they are not entirely human. There are still plenty of legal and ethical challenges to overcome before this work will see any clinical applications.
μDSV is a JavaScript library for parsing well-formed CSV strings. It is mostly RFC 4180 compliant. μDSV supports quoted values containing commas, escaped quotes, and line breaks. It will eventually be able to handle 99.5% of use cases without adding complexity or performance trade-offs to support the remaining 0.5%.
LotusDB is an extremely fast advanced key-value store. It combines the advantages of log-structured merge (LSM) trees and B+ trees. LotusDB has much lower read and space amplification than typical LSMs.
This article covers Elon Musk's history with AI. It includes anecdotes about his discussions with Larry Page before Google purchased DeepMind, his role in co-founding OpenAI, why he split with OpenAI, and many other stories. Musk's xAI is currently aiming to create an AI bot that can write computer code, reason, think, and pursue truth to compete with OpenAI's GPT series.
ChatGPT's traffic has declined for the third month. There are signs that the decline is coming to an end. School coming back into session in September may have boosted ChatGPT's traffic and usage. ChatGPT is still one of the top 30 websites in the world.
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Google Chrome's new Privacy Sandbox ad platform, which is rolling out with the new Chrome today, allows web pages to generate a list of advertising topics to share with other websites.
Most software will never produce more value than it cost to develop.
An article about Mustafa Suleyman, one of the co-founders of DeepMind, and his views on how AI will affect our lives in the future.
The biggest gain for Nvidia has been in boosting number representation in its GPUs.
Alaz is a Ddosify BPF agent that can inspect and collect Kubernetes service traffic without code instrumentation, sidecars, or service restarts.
Exceptional startups have an exceptional CEO, executive team, investors, talent, and product.
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Apple is reportedly spending millions of dollars a day on AI product research with the goal of creating a Siri that can automate tasks involving multiple steps. Most of the budget is dedicated to model training, which requires a lot of expensive hardware. The company has been working on large language models for four years, but it is unclear what it has achieved with its multi-year lead. Apple's internal chatbot apparently boasts greater capabilities than OpenAI's GPT-3.5 model, but is less intelligent than GPT-4.
This article tells the inside story of the transition between CEOs for Disney over the last few years. Bob Iger announced that he would step down as Disney's CEO in February 2020, picking Bob Chapek as his successor. Iger's plan would have him stay at the company as an executive chairman for 22 months. Chapek was fired in November 2022 and Iger became CEO again, with an extended contract through to 2026. Chapek says that his tenure at Disney was 'three years of hell'.
LK-99 is a complicated chemical. While it isn't a room-temperature superconductor, it has many interesting properties. This article takes a look at some of these properties to explain why LK-99 behaves the way it does. The nature of LK-99 made it difficult for scientists to determine the source of its behaviors.
Semiglutide was originally developed to treat type 2 diabetes. It may also reduce heart failure and provide more general cardiovascular benefits. Weekly injections of the drug can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack by 20%. While scientists don't entirely know how the drug works, studies show that it may have many other uses, such as in reducing alcohol consumption. The manufacturer that produces the drug plans to seek regulatory approval in the US and Europe for more uses.
This article discusses how to build and scale applications that use large language models. It took GitHub three years to develop GitHub Copilot from idea to production. The team used a three-stage plan for development: they identified an impactful problem space for their LLM application, created a smooth AI product experience, and then got the application ready and usable for general availability. Further resources on developing LLM applications are provided at the end of the article.
Commit Mono is a neutral programming typeface designed to create a better reading experience. It is designed to be quietly useful without an eye-catching design or any confusing ligatures. Commit Mono is inspired by common fonts. It uses an innovative technique that creates better spacing positions while preserving monospacing to improve kerning, creating a superior reading experience compared to other monospaced fonts.
This article looks at the evolution of the tunneling industry and current opportunities for disruption. Instead of complaining when stuck in LA traffic, Elon Musk thought downwards and wondered why the hundreds of meters of real estate underground were unused. A lot of infrastructure for public transport globally is already built underground. Building underground could help humans deal with weather issues and provide much-needed room for human population growth.
Cory Doctorow's latest book, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, presents a case for disrupting Big Tech, arguing that Big Tech's walled gardens are fenced in by legal structures, not feats of engineering. Forcing interoperability could break down these walls and make the Internet freer and more democratic. This article features an interview with Doctorow, where he discusses how interoperability could break up monopolies in Big Tech and beyond.
Modern cars, which are outfitted with all sorts of data collection devices, are terrible at privacy and security.
This article looks at statistics, anecdotes, and other evidence to make the case that the internet runs on PHP.
A transcript of a podcast where Arun Gupta, Intel's general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives, talks about making software greener and safer.
The trick is to refine some of the time spent doing other tasks into learning time - for example, listen to podcasts while commuting to work.
SpaceX is still waiting for FAA license approval for the second test launch.
Google is under investigation for monopolistic practices, with accusers alleging the company gained dominance in the search engine market through business partnerships.
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Apple is developing a low-cost MacBook series to compete with Chromebook models. The new line could be launched as early as the second half of 2024. It will have a metal casing made out of different materials from other MacBooks. Educational institutions have rapidly adopted Chromebooks over the last few years compared to iPads. This is the first rumor regarding the new MacBook series, so expectations should remain guarded.
Google is rolling out new updates to its mobile apps and services. The At a Glance widget will offer more helpful information about events, travel, and local weather. Wallet will be updated to make it easier to upload passes with barcodes or QR codes. The Lookout app will be able to describe scenes intelligently and answer follow-up questions. Android Auto is getting the ability to join audio-only Zoom and Webex calls. The Android logo has been redesigned.
More than 200 scientists have signed a letter calling for responsible research into ways to trap carbon dioxide in oceans. The group wants to take urgent action on the climate crisis without triggering any new problems by using oceans to help the fight. There are a lot of unknowns about the side effects of adding more carbon dioxide into the sea. The letter calls for controlled field trials to evaluate carbon removal strategies, third-party reviews of trial results, and safeguards to prevent unintended or adverse consequences.
A team of researchers from Texas A&M University in College Station successfully froze and revived small colonies of mature corals for the first time. The revived coral in the study only survived a few days after thawing due to stress from the process. Cryopreserving chunks of living corals could save them from extinction. Corals are dying and coral reproduction is struggling due to warming seas and acidity from human-caused climate change.
Raylene Yung became an engineering manager at Facebook in 2011. She then moved to Stripe and watched it grow from 200 to over 1,500 employees over the next four years. Yung built Stripe’s product management team, defined career growth and recruiting frameworks, ran the core Payments business, and spun up the company’s global engineering hub in Singapore. This article features an interview with Yung where she discusses career growth for engineers. In the interview, Yung shares career lessons and covers roadblocks that can appear at every stage of an engineering career. She also provides guiding questions to help readers make the right decisions.