Apple is developing a tabletop robotic device with an iPad-like
display mounted on a robotic arm. The arm will be able to tilt and
rotate the display
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APPLE AIMING TO LAUNCH TABLETOP ROBOTIC HOME DEVICE AS SOON AS 2026
WITH PRICING AROUND $1,000 (1 MINUTE READ) [5]
Apple is developing a tabletop robotic device with an iPad-like
display mounted on a robotic arm. The arm will be able to tilt and
rotate the display. The robot will serve as a smart home command
center, a video conferencing machine, and a home security monitoring
tool. It will leverage Siri and Apple Intelligence to respond to an
array of verbal commands, recognize different voices, and
automatically orient the display to face users in the room. Apple
plans to launch the device in 2026 or 2027 at a price of around
$1,000.
APPLE WILL LET OTHER DIGITAL WALLETS INTO APPLE PAY, AND EVEN BE THE
DEFAULT (2 MINUTE READ) [6]
Apple will let apps offer NFC functionality through the Secure
Element on iOS devices starting with iOS 18.1. Developers will have to
pay fees to access payments and secure transactions. iPhone users will
be able to set the default payment app triggered by double-clicking
the side button. Apple's move to open up its contactless system
broadly follows its settlement with the European Commission as part of
an antitrust action.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
STOKE SPACE'S INITIAL LAUNCH PLANS AT CAPE CANAVERAL TAKE SHAPE (5
MINUTE READ) [7]
Stoke Space is a five-year-old launch startup that aims to develop
the first fully reusable rocket. Last year, the US Space Force awarded
Stoke and three other startups launch pad real estate at Florida's
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The company plans to redevelop the
historic Launch Complex 14 in time for its first launch in 2025.
Stoke's reusable upper stage, which will drive launch prices down by
an order of magnitude, unlocks possibilities such as the ability to
return cargo from orbit and land anywhere on Earth.
RESEARCH AI MODEL UNEXPECTEDLY MODIFIED ITS OWN CODE TO EXTEND
RUNTIME (7 MINUTE READ) [8]
Sakana AI recently announced an AI system called The AI Scientist
that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously by using AI
language models. During testing, the system unexpectedly began to
attempt to modify its own experiment code to extend the time it had to
work on a problem. The experiment shows why it is important to not let
an AI system run autonomously in a system that isn't isolated from the
world. Screenshots of the code the system generated to extend its
runtime are available.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
CSVS ARE KINDA BAD. DSVS ARE KINDA GOOD (10 MINUTE READ) [9]
CSVs have issues when the formatting isn't perfect. While there are workarounds for this, a better option is to switch to
delimiter-separated values (DSVs). ASCII has several defined delimiter characters: using just two of them can solve most edge cases that CSVs
have issues with. This article discusses the idea of DSVs and presents
an example of a DSV reader/writer written in Python.
PRACTICES OF RELIABLE SOFTWARE DESIGN (8 MINUTE READ) [10]
This article details eight practices that a software engineer used
when writing a fast and small in-memory cache. These practices were
developed over the engineer's career and are things they wouldn't have considered when they were less experienced. They include using
off-the-shelf tools, going from idea to production quickly, using
simple data structures, and making tests easy.
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MISCELLANEOUS
INSIDE THE "3 BILLION PEOPLE" NATIONAL PUBLIC DATA BREACH (15 MINUTE
READ) [11]
National Public Data is a data aggregator that provides services
based on the large volumes of personal information it holds. These
services are used by investigators, background check websites, data
resellers, mobile apps, applications, and more. The company was
breached and its records started being leaked in April. The records
were publicly posted last week. This article takes a look at what the
data contains. There are no email addresses in the social security
number files, and at least some of the data is not associated
correctly.
FORMER GOOGLE CEO DOES DAMAGE CONTROL OVER REMOTE WORK COMMENTS (3
MINUTE READ) [12]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Stanford's School of
Engineering. While answering a question about Google's lag in
artificial intelligence development, Schmidt complained about Google's work-life balance, saying that companies that want to compete
shouldn't let people work from home and only come in one day a week.
He noted the history of dominant tech companies missing out on the
next wave of industry and played up the importance of hard-charging
founders like Elon Musk. Schmidt has since said he misspoke about
Google and its work hours and that he regrets his error.
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QUICK LINKS
A CALIFORNIA BILL TO REGULATE A.I. CAUSES ALARM IN SILICON VALLEY (8
MINUTE READ) [13]
The new bill, if signed into law, would require companies to test the
safety of powerful AI technologies before releasing them to the public
and allow California's attorney general to sue companies if their
technologies cause serious harm.
MUSK'S NEW GROK UPGRADE ALLOWS X USERS TO CREATE LARGELY UNCENSORED
AI IMAGES (4 MINUTE READ) [14]
Grok does not appear to refuse prompts involving real people and it
doesn't add watermarks to its outputs.
NINTENDO COMPLETELY SAT OUT THE VIDEO GAME GRAPHICS WARS. IT'S
WINNING ANYWAY (8 MINUTE READ) [15]
Instead of innovating on technology, Nintendo has mastered the
dopamine-reward system.
INSIDE THE SNOWFLAKE-DATABRICKS RIVALRY, AND WHY BOTH FEAR MICROSOFT
(12 MINUTE READ) [16]
Microsoft has been investing in its own competing data analytics
service called Fabric.
DISNEY SAYS MAN CAN'T SUE OVER WIFE'S DEATH BECAUSE HE AGREED TO
DISNEY+ TERMS OF SERVICE (4 MINUTE READ) [17]
The terms and conditions the man agreed to when he signed up for a
free trial of Disney+ (which he canceled during the free trial) say
that any dispute, except for small claims, is subject to a class
action waiver and must be resolved by individual binding arbitration.
EPIC JUDGE SAYS HE'LL `TEAR THE BARRIERS DOWN' ON GOOGLE'S APP
STORE MONOPOLY (2 MINUTE READ) [18]
Epic has asked the court to force Google to let rival stores live
inside Google Play.
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