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Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI,
has launched an 'AI native' education platform called Eureka Labs. The
company aims to create AI teaching assistants to guide students
through course materials. These AI assistants will work with human
teachers to allow anyone to learn anything. The venture's first
product will be an undergraduate-level class that will help students
train their very own AI. Eureka Labs will run both digital and
physical classes.

GIANT PIXEL 9 LEAK GIVES US OUR FIRST REAL-WORLD LOOK AT THE FOLD,
FASTER CHARGING SPECS, AND MORE (5 MINUTE READ) [6]

The Taiwanese version of the FCC has leaked photos and details of the
entire Pixel 9 series. The photos confirm that Google is moving the
Pixel Fold's inner selfie camera to the corner of the screen and
adding a new square camera arrangement. The Pixel 9 series will
feature faster charging speeds and Thread support. It is expected to
launch at the Made by Google event on August 13. The leaked pictures
are available in the article.

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AIR-DEFLECTING SHIELD ALLOWS ATHLETES TO RUN LIKE THE UNIMPEDED WIND
(3 MINUTE READ) [7]

The Airshield is a device that allows runners to train without
experiencing any air resistance. Currently a prototype, the Airshield
allows athletes to run faster than they are able to unaided, allowing
their bodies to learn the neuromuscular sequences required to run at
that speed. The wedge-shaped open-backed cart is towed behind an
electric go-kart, which is steered along a running track by a human
driver. Pictures and a video of the Airshield being used are available
in the article.

STARTUPS ARE BUILDING BALLOONS TO HOIST TOURISTS 100,000 FEET INTO
THE STRATOSPHERE (2 MINUTE READ) [8]

France-based Zephalto, Florida-based Space Perspective, and
Arizona-based World View are just three of the startups currently
building balloons to hoist tourists to the stratosphere. Most of these
balloons will reach heights of 15 to 19 miles above the Earth's
surface. At that height, the outside of the capsules will be
essentially a vacuum and the sky will be a deep black. Passengers will
not experience weightlessness. There will be no physical requirements
for passengers to board the balloons. Seats on the balloons range from
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

DECENTRALIZING DEVREL (14 MINUTE READ) [9]

This article looks at how Hugging Face approaches developer
relations. Hugging Face is well known for being a startup whose large
online community also translates to massive multi-thousand-people
meetups all over the world. The community-centric company prioritizes
giving the spotlight to community members and collaborators as much as
possible and provides compute and no-strings-attached cash grants to
community members and communities. It also helps maintain open-source
libraries and closely collaborates with other tools. The company aims
to always take a collaborative approach to working with other groups, open-source platforms, and libraries.

LESSONS LEARNED IN 35 YEARS OF MAKING SOFTWARE (7 MINUTE READ) [10]

This blog post contains a list of lessons learned by a developer from
35 years of making software. The advice covers topics such as
relationships, chasing interests, how people see the world, different
mindsets to develop, and more. A lot of career progression in
white-collar work is gained through developing relationships.

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MISCELLANEOUS

WHY FTC NEEDS TO RETHINK TECH REGULATION (6 MINUTE READ) [11]

The current regulatory system isn't set up to consider regulations in
a long-term fashion in our technology-driven world. The FTC wants to
create opportunities for non-Big Tech companies, but the reality of
the technology ecosystem is very different. Many companies with the
potential to grow bigger are staying private to avoid public market
scrutiny. Regulators need to rethink what constitutes a monopoly in
the digital age.

INTERVIEWING EPIC GAMES FOUNDER/CEO TIM SWEENEY & AUTHOR/ENTREPRENEUR
NEAL STEPHENSON (68 MINUTE READ) [12]

This article contains an interview with Tim Sweeney, Founder and CEO
of Epic Games, and Neal Stephenson, the author who coined the term
'Metaverse'. The interview discusses the Metaverse, thoughts on its technological and economic growth, Apple's Vision Pro, blockchains,
the ethics of generative AI, and much more.

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Amazon is keeping tabs on the number of hours corporate employees
spend in the office to prevent them from leaving immediately after
badging in.

GOOGLE'S $500M EFFORT TO WRECK MICROSOFT EU CLOUD DEAL FAILED (4
MINUTE READ) [16]

Google offered a $500 million alternative deal to a group of cloud
providers to maintain its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft.

APPLE IS FINALLY EMBRACING ANDROID'S CHAOS (3 MINUTE READ) [17]

iOS 18 gives users tools to easily customize the app icons on their
homescreen and put app icons wherever they want.

SO YOU WANT TO COMPETE WITH OR REPLACE OPEN SOURCE (5 MINUTE READ)
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Winning in open source means embracing the fact that you will share
the commercial market for the software with other entities.

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Safari 17.0 adds link tracking protection, blocking network loads of
known trackers, advanced fingerprinting protection, and more to
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Virtual reality headsets are devices designed for selfish
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