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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
NVIDIA PASSES MICROSOFT IN MARKET CAP TO BECOME MOST VALUABLE PUBLIC
COMPANY (2 MINUTE READ) [5]
Nvidia is now the most valuable public company in the world. Its
market cap surpassed Microsoft's $3.32 trillion on Tuesday, reaching a
high of $3.34 trillion. Nvidia's shares are up more than 170% so far
this year. Its market cap hit $3 trillion for the first time earlier
this month. Nvidia's rise has been so rapid the company has yet to be
added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the stock benchmark of the
30 most valuable US companies.
APPLE HALTS WORK ON VISION PRO, AIMS TO RELEASE CHEAPER VISION
HEADSET NEXT YEAR (2 MINUTE READ) [6]
Apple will repeatedly release a cheaper, cut-down version of the
Apple Vision Pro at the end of 2025. Development work on a second
generation of the high-end model of the Vision Pro has been shelved.
Reports suggest that the cheaper Vision Pro will cost around $1,500.
Apple is apparently struggling to find ways to cut the price and
weight of the device without sacrificing too much of the experience.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ARE GREAT AT DRIVING STRAIGHT (4 MINUTE READ) [7]
A recent study, which analyzed over 37,000 accidents involving
autonomous and human-driven vehicles, found that while autonomous
vehicles (AVs) were generally less prone to accidents than
human-driven vehicles, they significantly underperformed against
humans in some situations. The study found that level 4 AVs were over
five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk
and that the odds of an accident during a turn were almost double in
AVs compared to human-driven vehicles. It highlights the need for
better data and stronger intelligence for decision-making.
`IT'S THE PERFECT PLACE': LONDON UNDERGROUND HOSTS TESTS FOR
`QUANTUM COMPASS' THAT COULD REPLACE GPS (5 MINUTE READ) [8]
Scientists in the UK are developing very precise new sensors using
quantum mechanics to create a quantum compass - an instrument that
exploits the behavior of subatomic matter to accurately pinpoint their locations no matter where they're placed. This could result in a new
generation of underground and underwater sensors that can provide
location information without interference from weather and other
obstructions. Their device could be ready for widespread use in just a
few years. It works well in a stable laboratory environment but needs
to be tested in more extreme conditions to be turned into a
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Meta's Threads API is now available to all developers. The API will
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integrations, manage their Threads presence at scale, and easily share
content with their communities. It allows people to publish posts,
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COGNITIVE LOAD IS WHAT MATTERS (20 MINUTE READ) [13]
Confusion, which costs time and money, is caused by high cognitive
load. Cognitive load is how much a developer needs to think in order
to complete a task. Developers should constantly ask themselves
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This article looks at the global digital architecture required to
make the internet a public interest technology. It looks at what
should be considered as digital infrastructure and the consequences of
its capture, the problems with current approaches to internet
standards, limits to the main approach to digital regulation that
states are deploying, how to approach the governance of transnational
public infrastructure, how to pay for this, and more. While creating a
public interest internet would be difficult, the alternative, keeping
our digital infrastructure entirely in the hands of a few
megacorporations, could be more costly.
AIS ARE COMING FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS (4 MINUTE READ) [15]
Butterfly is a social network made up of AI characters. Its app
allows users to create AI characters, or Butterflies, which generate
photos and interact with other accounts on their own. There's no limit
to the number of Butterflies users can create. These AI profiles
coexist with human accounts, which can also post and comment. The app
provides a peek into a somewhat dystopian future where AIs start
invading social media feeds - Mark Zuckerberg shared in September that
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ELON MUSK RUSHES TO DEBUT X PAYMENTS AS TECH ISSUES HAMPER CREATOR
PAYOUTS (6 MINUTE READ) [17]
Elon Musk is pushing to launch X payment services, arguably one of
the reasons he paid so much to acquire Twitter in 2022, by the end of
2024.
TIKTOK IS COPYING INSTAGRAM AGAIN WITH WHEE (1 MINUTE READ) [18]
Whee is an app for sharing photos with close friends.
GITHUB COPILOT WORKSPACE REVIEW (11 MINUTE READ) [19]
GitHub Copilot Workspace failed a super simple task for this review -
in every way it could at every step.
META FORMS NEW WEARABLES GROUP AND LAYS OFF SOME EMPLOYEES (8 MINUTE
READ) [20]
Meta's Reality Labs is undergoing its biggest restructuring in years
- it will separate into two organizations: Wearables and Metaverse.
APPLE REFUSES TO NOTARIZE EMULATOR APPS (1 MINUTE READ) [21]
Apple has rejected the UTM emulator app from its App Store and all
third-party app stores in the EU by refusing to notarize it.
VISUAL STUDIO CODE EXTENSIONS ARE MUCH LESS SECURE THAN BROWSER
EXTENSIONS OR EVEN NPM PACKAGES (3 MINUTE READ) [22]
Extensions in Visual Studio Code can do pretty much whatever they
want, they automatically update, publisher accounts are too easy to
verify, the code shipped in an update can differ from what's on
GitHub, and there's no way to verify the data being used in the
extension store indicating popularity or trust-worthiness.
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