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Kemmerer, Wyoming, will soon be home to the most advanced nuclear facility in the world. It will hopefully come online in 2030. There is still a review process to be completed - TerraPower will build out the non-nuclear parts of the facility in the meantime. Started by Bill Gates in 2008, TerraPower is leading the country and the world in developing safe, next-generation nuclear technology.
Solar-powered planes could lead to new alternatives for aerial surveillance and telecommunications. Aviation giants, telecommunication companies, venture investors, and the military are already spending millions of dollars developing the technology. These planes never need refueling and can stay in the air as long as the sun is shining. Advances in battery technology have finally made it feasible to power a solar plane through the night.
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When hiring for functional programming languages, you primarily pick from either resume spammers, bright undergraduates, or senior engineers who only want to work with that particular language. Resume spammers can be safely ignored. Bright undergraduates can be a source of great potential. Senior engineers who only want to work with a particular language may look like the best candidates, but they may be too focused on the tool to see the goals of the business.
This page contains a list of terms and core concepts for developers in the payments team of an online business or payments service provider. It can be frustrating to work in an environment without understanding the terminologies used in every conversation. The page attempts to simplify the concepts to bring developers up to speed with payments.
Apple's new Apple Intelligence system will use Private Cloud Compute to ensure any data processed on its cloud servers is protected in a transparent and verifiable way. Many of Apple's generative AI models can run entirely on a device powered by an A17+ or M-series chip. When a bigger model is required to fulfill a generative AI request, Apple Intelligence only sends relevant data to complete the task to special Apple silicon servers. Customer data will not be saved for future server access or used to further train models. The server code used for Private Cloud Compute will be publicly accessible.
A study of more than 1,500 employees found that a quarter of executives and a fifth of HR professionals hoped that return-to-office (RTO) mandates would result in staff leaving. While people did quit when RTO mandates were enforced at many of the largest companies, it wasn't enough - many of the layoffs in the past 12 months were believed to be a result of too few people leaving in protest of RTO mandates. Many employees feel that management wants them back in the office to monitor them more closely. This has resulted in the growth of an office culture that is even more performative, suspicious, and divisive than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nokia placed a call over a cellular network using the 3GPP Immersive Video and Audio Services codec, which lets people hear spatial audio in real time.
Microsoft is reportedly working on a true handheld gaming device.
Triplebyte was a technical recruiting company for software engineers with an excellent brand delivering a well-liked product.
Current methods for detecting fake images are fairly effective, but generators are getting better.
Modern CSS allows developers to override font metrics with @font-face properties like size-adjust, ascent-override, and descent-override.
Digital infrastructure ultimately requires physical infrastructure - the more computing needed, the more physical infrastructure is required.
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Apple announced at WWDC 2024 that it is integrating ChatGPT into a variety of native experiences on iOS devices. It plans to eventually expand to use voice and other capabilities.
Apple has unveiled its "Apple Intelligence" AI suite, which has features like a conversational Siri, AI-generated "Genmoji," and GPT-4o integration for complex requests. The capabilities will be exclusive to newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs. They will roll out in English with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall. Apple has emphasized privacy with on-device processing and "Private Cloud Compute" for off-device tasks and allowed independent privacy verification.
The Gboard team has outlined how they use SFT on a PaLM2-XS model to fix sentence and paragraph-level errors in written text on device. They found dramatic improvements and usage due to latency optimizations.
The team at Snap Research was able to reduce the size of the Stable Diffusion UNet model from 1.72 GB down to 219MB while increasing performance with their new quantization scheme. The quantization method is somewhat complex, but paints a strong path forward in running generative models on consumer hardware.
Apple introduced "Apple Intelligence" at WWDC 2024. Apple Intelligence is an AI system integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that features advanced generative models for various everyday tasks like text refinement, notification summarization, and image creation. Emphasizing responsible AI development and user privacy, this system combines on-device and cloud capabilities to enhance user experiences across Apple products.
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A Jupyter Notebook that combines the experience of OpenAI's code interpreter with the familiar development environment of a Python notebook.
OVMR is a new method that enhances open-vocabulary recognition by combining textual descriptions and exemplar images.
The Predictive Dynamic Fusion (PDF) framework enhances multimodal learning by addressing reliability and stability issues.
AI image generation has progressed from creating images based on text descriptions since 2022. Using a child's game analogy, this article explains how these models refine noisy inputs to produce detailed and specific images, showcasing the rapid advancements and potential of AI in visual creativity.
Researchers have introduced a new framework that integrates active stereo principles into standard passive cameras without using a physical pattern projector.
Asana has introduced "AI teammates" to handle tasks like triaging requests and organizing project details proactively, aiming to improve efficiency and output quality. This new feature, demonstrated at Asana's Work Innovation Summit, is integrated into the workflow, acting like a human team member but remaining under human supervision.
Great model from Tsinghua KEM group trained on 10T tokens with support for 26 languages.
DIRECT-3D is a new diffusion-based 3D generative model that creates high-quality 3D assets from text prompts.
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Fidelity International has tokenized a money market fund on JPMorgan's Onyx Digital Assets blockchain. It has joined the Tokenized Collateral Network to improve efficiency and reduce transaction costs and operational risks.
Based on other ETH products and market analysis, K33 Research estimates that ETH ETFs could see around 1 million ETH of inflows in their first five months. It looked at the market share of ETH vs. BTC on CME futures contracts, finding that ETH trading demand is typically 35% of BTC's.
Berachain V2 focuses on technical architecture developments, keeping its tri-token model and proof of liquidity incentive structure the same. It introduces BeaconKit, an EVM-focused development framework that allows any Ethereum execution client to be compatible with Berachain V2. This upgrade also introduces single-slot finality, greater efficiency, and an increased limit of 256 validators.
OP Mainnet introduced permissionless fault proofs, moving it into Stage 1 of decentralization with plans to extend these capabilities to more chains like Base and Metal. This upgrade enhances security by allowing any user to challenge invalid withdrawals and includes fail-safes like a Security Council that can revert the system to a permissioned state if necessary. OP Mainnet aims to eventually reach full decentralization in Stage 2.
Cryptoeconomic security has historically been defined as ensuring the cost of corruption is higher than its profit, but modeling adversaries is extremely complex as they may act irrationally. StakeSure redefines security by redistributing slashed funds to the protocol. It is secure as long as the redistributable stake is greater than the harm from corruption to the protocol. This concept is analogous to insurance on packages: a sender chooses how much insurance they want, and if the package is lost, money is distributed to them, regardless of what else happens in the supply chain.
Overinvestment in crypto infrastructure obfuscates product-market fit for consumer crypto apps, emphasizing VC gains on L1 tokens over practical use cases. Projects are now pivoting to chain abstraction, solving the chain and liquidity fragmentation problem created by too many L1s. Galxe has quietly become a leader in this space, finding sector dominance with airdrop distribution and building an identity layer, chain abstraction vault, and the upcoming Gravity Chain.
A Solana validator who performed a sandwich attack had stake delegated to it from the Solana Foundation removed. MEV does not occur natively on the chain since there is no mempool. The Solana Foundation, which delegates less than 16% of all SOL staked, did not want to support exploiting retail trades. The validator can continue running but will not be foundation-subsidized.
BullpenFi's first product, a highly advanced Telegram trading bot, was designed as an all-encompassing platform for retail on-chain trading. The platform includes a mobile-first wallet that simplifies security with passkeys and recovery email, a trading interface that streamlines project evaluation and trading, and generative insights that filter and present relevant crypto discussions (especially from Crypto Twitter) directly within Telegram.
A proposal to combat MEV suggests that each user could have their own block producer to make their own blocks, potentially avoiding unwanted MEV.
This post has 20 fun facts about random topics in Web3, for example, the ETH ICO price was $0.31, 20% of Bitcoin has been lost forever, and the highest gas fee in Ethereum's history was 1,400 gwei (0.04 Ether).
Since launching on May 28, the UK's crypto ETNs (equivalent to ETFs) have only generated $500,000 in volume.
UwU Lend is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that functions as a liquidity market, allowing users to deposit and borrow digital assets.
At WWDC 2024, Apple introduced “Apple Intelligence,” integrating AI across devices with on-device processing for privacy. iOS 18 brings new customization and Photos app updates, macOS Sequoia offers iPhone control from a Mac, and iPadOS 18 adds a calculator and handwriting tools. Siri now supports ChatGPT for voice and text interactions.
Telegram has launched new features that improve messaging experience and allow users to express themselves more freely. With the update, you can add animated effects to messages, place captions above media, discover public posts with global hashtags, and hide text snippets using collapsible quote blocks.
Apple has announced the winners of its Apple Design Awards, with Procreate Dreams winning the 'Innovation' category, marking the third award for the Procreate team. Procreate Dreams, a new 2D animation tool for iPad, has revolutionized animation with innovative touch-first features, garnering praise for its creativity and usability.
Apple is expected to debut "Apple Intelligence" at its Worldwide Developers Conference, focusing on valuable and reliable AI features, with potential improvements to Siri and on-device functionalities like offline transcriptions. The company is aiming for smooth, seamless AI implementations, possibly avoiding reliance on LLMs due to hallucination issues and potential backlash.
Adobe has faced a series of public relations issues, resulting in a loss of trust among creative professionals due to perceived indifference and lack of transparency. Actions like allowing AI-generated images "in the style of Ansel Adams" on Adobe Stock have further upset the photography community, potentially impacting the company's long-term success.