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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
APPLE LAUNCHES NEW 13-INCH AND 15-INCH MACBOOK AIR WITH M3 CHIP,
SUPPORT FOR TWO EXTERNAL DISPLAYS, FASTER WI-FI (2 MINUTE READ) [5]
Apple has announced next-generation M3 MacBook Airs in 13-inch and
15-inch sizes. Besides the M3 chips, the new laptops feature an
upgraded Neural Engine, up to 2x faster Wi-Fi, and the ability to
connect to two displays at once - when the laptop lid is closed. The
overall design of the M3 MacBook Air is the same as the M2 model. The
new MacBook Airs can be ordered from the Apple online store starting
at $1099 for the 13-inch and $1299 for the 15-inch model. Shipping
will start on March 8.
THE AI WARS HEAT UP WITH CLAUDE 3, CLAIMED TO HAVE "NEAR-HUMAN"
ABILITIES (4 MINUTE READ) [6]
Anthropic's Claude 3 apparently sets new industry benchmarks across a
range of cognitive tasks. The company claims that it approaches
'near-human' capability in some cases. Claude 3 has three models:
Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet (which powers the Claude.ai chatbot),
and Claude 3 Opus (available through a subscription service). All
three models feature a 200,000-token context window and are available
through an API. Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on a range of widely used
benchmarks.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
BLUE ORIGIN IS GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT DEVELOPING A HUMAN SPACECRAFT (3
MINUTE READ) [7]
Blue Origin's new chief executive Dave Limp is working to instill a
more productive culture at the firm. The company plans to launch its
own heavy-lift rocket later this year, possibly as soon as August. It
has been developing hardware to fly on the heavy-lift rocket,
including a transfer vehicle for ferrying satellites into precise
orbits, and working on a private space station called Orbital Reef.
Blue Origin is now hiring staff to develop a commercial space
transportation system for humans.
AWS ACQUIRING DATA CENTER CAMPUS POWERED BY NUCLEAR ENERGY (3 MINUTE
READ) [8]
Amazon Web Services purchased a data center campus powered by a
nearby nuclear power station in Pennsylvania for $650 million. The
nuclear power plant has been in operation since 1983. It will supply
AWS with electricity for 10 years as part of the purchase agreement.
The data center campus comprises 1,200 acres. AWS also plans to invest
$5.3 billion in Saudi Arabia over the next few years to create an AWS Infrastructure Region.
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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE
THE HUNT FOR THE MISSING DATA TYPE (16 MINUTE READ) [9]
While developers see graphs everywhere and use them to analyze all
sorts of systems, there is almost no graph support in any mainstream
language. This is because there are too many different kinds of
graphs, representations of each kind of graph, and graph algorithms.
Also, graph algorithm performance is very sensitive to graph
representation and implementation details. Languages don't support
graphs in their standard libraries because there are too many design
decisions and tradeoffs and too much maintenance burden. This also
explains why programmers avoid third-party graph libraries - they're
either too limited to too slow.
CSS FOR PRINTING TO PAPER (17 MINUTE READ) [10]
This article explains how CSS controls how webpages look when
printed. It covers the @page property, @media print, element
positioning, how to handle multi-page documents with repeating
elements, and more. An 'essentials cheatsheet' is provided at the end
of the article.
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MISCELLANEOUS
GOOGLE CO-FOUNDER SERGEY BRIN SAYS IN RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCE THAT
COMPANY `DEFINITELY MESSED UP' GEMINI IMAGE LAUNCH (7 MINUTE READ)
[11]
Alphabet co-founder Sergey Brin, who came out of retirement to work
on AI, spoke to a group of artificial intelligence enthusiasts over
the weekend at the 'AGI House' in Hillsborough, California, about AI's
impact on search and how Google might maintain its leadership position
as AI continues to grow. Brin commented on the launch of Google's
image generator, saying that the company messed up due to a lack of
thorough testing. He also spoke about other topics such as virtual and augmented reality hardware and Gemini's potential impact on products
like Google Maps and Street View.
AGGREGATOR'S AI RISK (27 MINUTE READ) [12]
The Internet made publishing and distribution zero marginal cost
activities. It created a new world of abundance, but it also created a
new type of power given to those who had the ability to make sense of
that abundance. Allowing anyone to publish didn't further decentralize
power - new powers emerged to control discovery. Generative AI flips
that paradigm around, collapsing all published knowledge into a single
answer. This answer is unlikely to make everyone happy. A potential
solution to this problem is to personalize AIs so they do a better job
of giving people what they want to see.
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focus on featuresÄrather than wrangling infrastructureÄthey can
innovate faster [13], ensure consistent SLAs, shorten feedback loops,
and scale code health and security. This article suggests a frontend
workflow that helps you achieve all four of these goals. Read the
article [13].
ELYSIAJS (GITHUB REPO) [14]
ElysiaJS is a Bun TypeScript framework that features end-to-end type
safety, a unified type system, and an outstanding developer
experience.
EPIC GAMES HACKERS SAY THEY FAKED THE WHOLE THING (2 MINUTE READ)
[15]
Mogilevich, a group that faked a hack on Epic Games, sold fake data
to eight buyers without providing proof of the hack.
GLEAM VERSION 1 (10 MINUTE READ) [16]
Gleam is a programming language that makes writing and maintaining
software systems predictable and stress-free - it is easy to read and understand and can be learned in just a few hours.
MIT JUST RELEASED DIRECTIONS FOR COMMERCIALIZING PEROVSKITE SOLAR
CELLS (4 MINUTE READ) [17]
The paper is essentially a guidebook for how to tune perovskite
surfaces to make sure that energy is not lost due to defects.
GOOGLE LAUNCHES $5M PRIZE TO FIND ACTUAL USES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS
(2 MINUTE READ) [18]
While quantum computers can perform specific tasks faster than
classical computers, none of these tasks have real-world applications.
DEPLOYING FIBER IN THE HOME (27 MINUTE READ) [19]
Wiring a connection to a building entrance is not enough - this post
documents a DIYer's experience of upgrading their building's wiring
directly to their home.
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