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Google has eliminated around a thousand positions across its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, Core engineering, and Assistant teams. The company may still be planning further layoffs. Google's parent company Alphabet employed 182,385 employees as of September 30 last year. The layoffs so far represent around half a percent of the company's total employees.
SpaceX has successfully sent and received its first text messages using the T-Mobile network spectrum through one of its new direct-to-cell satellites. The new satellites are expected to provide text messaging services around the world sometime this year, with voice and data services beginning sometime in 2025. They are equipped with custom silicon, phased array antennas, and advanced software algorithms. The satellite-to-phone service should work just about anywhere on the planet, but it will be most useful in areas with no coverage due to terrain limitations, land-use restrictions, and other factors.
The Electric Transformer House is an expandable luxury mini-home with 400 square feet of living space, solar panels, and much more. The RV features a luxurious interior, smart tech, and clean energy for off-grid capabilities. It has a gourmet kitchen, a spacious living and dining room, and a private bedroom. Its cockpit features a flexible dashboard/office desk, integrated entertainment, drive assist tech, and a Starlink connection. Pictures and videos showing the RV in both its vehicle and mini-home modes are available in the article.
Orienspace declared a complete success after launching a rocket at sea into low-Earth orbit on Thursday. Its rocket deposited a total of three satellites into orbit using its Gravity 1 commercial launch system. The three-stage, 100-foot-tall spacecraft is the world's largest solid launch vehicle. Launching from the sea offers several advantages, including less chance of damage and lower costs.
GitHub Actions can be used for batch jobs. Developers can submit work to the service and receive the results later on asynchronously. actions-batch is a command-line tool that is essentially an API that turns GitHub Actions into a time-sharing computer. It creates new GitHub repositories, writes a workflow that runs 'job.sh' upon commits, and triggers jobs when a local bash file is written to the repository as 'job.sh'. actions-batch can be used for jobs like building kernels and running machine learning inference using Llama2.
Google's cloud unit will stop charging data transfer fees when customers want to leave. The change applies to all customers globally. Data transfer fees are a profitable source of revenue for tech companies and they can reduce churn as they punish clients for going elsewhere. Google is part of the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of companies whose aim is to reduce or eliminate data transfer fees. Alibaba, Microsoft, and Oracle are also members of the alliance.
Google disabled tracking cookies for 30 million Chrome users last week, about 1% of the browser's user base. Analysts estimate that the change made cookieless users bring in 30% less revenue. Google plans to block cookies for all users by the end of the year and replace them with a new tracking system called the Privacy Sandbox. The new system will keep all user data on users' devices but let companies still know what topics they're interested in.
Bridge-based ranking is a way to score and rank content by adjusting for user polarization. The algorithm works by attempting to model why content receives the reactions it gets and then correcting for bias. It can cancel out the effects of bias. This article explains Bridge-Based Ranking and shows how and why it works. Bridge-based ranking allows communities to self-moderate by preventing influence from user polarization.
Renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that Apple will have between 60,000 and 80,000 Apple Vision Pro units available on launch day.
The affected employees will be given the chance to be interviewed to be considered for a position as a product manager.
Making the Rabbit R1 a piece of hardware allowed the company to create something capable of all the potentials of its LAM technology while lowering entry barriers for early adopters.
Microsoft's shares rose in 2023 partly due to hope from investors that the company would be able to expand by selling AI services to businesses.
While Discord isn't in dire financial straits, it has yet to become profitable and is still trying to revive user growth after the pandemic surge.
If Kotlin doesn't make a significant move by 2025, its popularity will decline and reach a critical point.
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Swarovski has developed a pair of AI powered binoculars that can identify 9000 different kinds of birds and wildlife. They can also capture photos and videos.
At CES, Amazon showcased new generative AI-powered Alexa experiences from developers Character.AI, Splash, and Volley. The experiences enhance the smart assistant's interactivity and creativeness.
Together Compute has been exploring many different Transformer alternatives. It has released a retrieval model that outperforms many closed embedding models for retrieval tasks.
It turns out that prompting models for few shot benchmarks can give anywhere from 4-88% accuracy on the task, depending on the prompt. This research shows how to scientifically improve your prompts.
This paper presents a thorough overview of deep learning's role in blind motion deblurring, a key area in computer vision. It covers everything from basic concepts and limitations of traditional methods to a detailed comparison of modern techniques like CNNs, GANs, RNNs, and Transformers.
Researchers have developed a new framework to better understand and analyze singing voices. By using self-supervised learning on isolated vocal tracks and focusing on out-of-domain generalization, they made progress in tasks like singing voice similarity and synthesis, improving upon existing technologies.
This study demonstrates that adding simple language explanations to code significantly improves how language models translate between 19 different programming languages, especially for complex codes.
This project tackles the challenge of distilling large language models into smaller student models. The researchers discovered a consistent optimal capacity gap for different student models and used the insight to create MiniMA, a 3B model distilled from a 7B teacher model. MiniMa sets new benchmarks in efficiency and performance.
This model has been trained in both offensive and defensive security. It is a general purpose coding model that can assist in cyber security tasks. This means you can use it to secure your networks and learn how to protect from different hacks and vulnerabilities.
This post explores how eigenvalues change for different Kernel Matrices and what that means for learning properties.
NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jensen Huang discusses on this podcast how he leads his company in the face of accelerating change, sharing insights on how founders can integrate AI into their business in order to not be left behind.
Nous Research, creators of the best open fine-tuned models available, have raised seed funding to continue building models.
People think that AI is going to replace a lot of jobs because everyone thinks that everyone else's job is easy. The desire to remove humans from the equation is based on ignorance. Even with the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and this can't be avoided. People want to appeal to other humans and be seen and understood.
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Circle Internet Financial, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has filed a confidential draft S-1 document with the SEC for an initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the proposed offering have not yet been determined. USDC is the second-largest stablecoin, with a market cap of about $25 billion. Circle's initial public offering is expected to take place after the review process, subject to market and other conditions.
The first day of trading for the newly launched spot Bitcoin ETFs exceeded expectations. The new funds managed to clear a total volume of $4.5 billion, indicating strong interest from Wall Street investors. Key players like BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust contributed significantly. BlackRock accounted for 22% of the total volume and Grayscale hit a record high daily volume.
Berachain, an upcoming layer 1 blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem, has opened its public testnet. The testnet introduces a unique "proof of liquidity" consensus mechanism, which involves securing the network through ecosystem participants that provide liquidity to its trading infrastructure. Liquidity providers will be rewarded with tokens. Berachain's developers plan for the tokens to have some economic value.
Bitfinity, a new developer in the Ordinal Inscription protocol ecosystem, aims to integrate its Ethereum Virtual Machine with Bitcoin to support Bitcoin-enabled DeFi services using a sidechain on the Internet Computer. It has raised $7 million in funding to achieve this goal. Bitfinity's EVM opens up the Bitcoin ecosystem to novel use cases and applications. The company's future Bitcoin plans include adding BRC-20 tokens to its protocol, which will allow users to create meme-coins on the Bitcoin network.
A complete breakdown of Solana with everything from key metrics to the roadmap to the Solana ecosystem. Solana sustained quarter-on-quarter growth across many metrics in Q4. The Solana Foundation's annual Breakpoint conference, JTO's airdrop, and BONK's Coinbase listing helped drive growth. Catalysts for this year include Jupiter's airdrop, token extensions, and continued progress on Firedancer and TinyDancer.
Timeless tips on how to maximize your profits this bull run. This thread covers portfolio strategies, narrative selection, and bull market frameworks. A portfolio should consist of long-term investments, stablecoins, and a focus on three narratives. Traders may go through multiple narratives throughout the cycle to maximize profits.
The U.S. SEC's approval of bitcoin spot ETFs represents a significant merging of traditional finance and cryptocurrency, potentially transforming both sectors. While simplifying Bitcoin investment for mainstream audiences, this move raises concerns among crypto purists about centralization and deviation from Bitcoin's original decentralizing ethos. However, it's also seen as an essential step for the crypto's growth and wider acceptance.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has endorsed a proposal for a 33.3% increase in the Ethereum block gas limit from 30 million to 40 million units, a change that could enhance the network's capacity for processing transactions and executing smart contracts. The proposal aims to improve network efficiency without necessitating a hard fork, despite potential operational cost increases for nodes, as it can be implemented through validators adjusting their node configurations.
A breakdown of this week’s most important on-chain metrics.
Once-enthusiastic Indian venture capitalists are now retreating from the crypto sector, influenced by stringent regulations by the Reserve Bank of India. This shift, further impacted by restrictive tax policies and actions like Apple delisting crypto apps, marks a significant downturn in India's previously burgeoning web3 and digital assets landscape.
Investment firm Franklin Templeton has changed its X profile picture to one with laser eyes.
Honda has unveiled a new H logo for electrified Hondas. It’s frameless, and the sides of the H are less upright, making it look like two outstretched hands. It’s also a throwback design inspired by the one used in the ‘60s.