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Daily Update 2022-11-30

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Amazon's 'Create with Alexa' highlights the intersection of AI and creativity (2 minute read)

Create with Alexa is a new feature on supported Echo Show devices that creates immersive bedtime stories with the help of artificial intelligence. It uses conversational and generative AI to create stories, images, and music for an animated bedtime story experience. The feature can be activated by saying 'Alexa, make a story'. Users can customize the story's setting, tone, characters, and score.

Inside X’s Mission to Make Robots Boring (14 minute read)

Everyday Robots is a project by X, Alphabet's moonshot factory. It has built more than 100 robots in X's Mountain View headquarters, where they are used for tasks such as cleaning the cafeteria. The project aims to create robots that can credibly perform the tasks of human helpers. This article takes a look at the project and the people behind it. Video clips of the robots in action are available in the article.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

World’s first test run of a hydrogen jet engine a success (3 minute read)

Rolls-Royce and easyJet have successfully tested a hydrogen jet engine. The technology could one day erase aviation's greenhouse gas emissions. Electric planes are impractical as batteries are still too bulky for long flights. Hydrogen-powered planes for short flights could hit the market by 2035.

SpaceX Is Preparing to Launch The World's First Private Lunar Lander (2 minute read)

SpaceX is set to launch the first private lander to the Moon on Wednesday. The lander, created by Japanese company ispace, is the first of a program called Hakuto-R. It will touch down on the visible side of the moon in April 2023. The lander will carry a 10-kilogram rover called Rashid built by the United Arab Emirates. Rashid will be the Arab world's first Moon mission.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2022 (6 minute read)

This page will be updated daily with news from AWS re:Invent 2022. It includes announcements and links to further resources for people to dive into. A link to a complete list of all AWS re:Invent 2022 announcements is available. There is also a link to a livestream directly from the show floor.

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Miscellaneous

Apple Announces 2022 App Store Award Winners, Highlighting Best Apps of the Year (3 minute read)

Apple's 2022 App Store Awards highlights the 16 best apps and games as selected by Apple's global App Store editorial team. The winners were selected for their quality, innovative technology, creative design, positive cultural impact, and ability to deliver 'exceptional experiences'. The categories include App and Game of the year for each category of Apple device, as well as five Cultural Impact Winners. A list of the winners this year is available in the article.

Sam Bankman-Fried Addresses Withdrawals, FTX Collapse in Newly Released Audio Interview (5 minute read)

Sam Bankman-Fried discussed FTX's downfall, his lobbying actions, Binance, and his regrets during an audio interview with crypto whistleblower Tiffany Fong. He also discusses why FTX opened up withdrawals to Bahamian accounts briefly and the backdoor that was created to move user funds. SBF continues to claim that everything happened because he greatly mistook how leveraged he was. His lawyers have been unhappy about his decision to speak about the fiasco.

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Scientists Revive ‘Zombie’ Virus After 50,000 Years Trapped in Siberian Permafrost (2 minute read)

The ancient viruses are potentially a significant threat to public health, so they need to be studied as the permafrost melts.

Jack Ma stays in Tokyo during China’s tech crackdown (4 minute read)

Jack Ma has been living in central Tokyo for almost six months, with regular trips outside Tokyo and to the US and Israel.

Astronomers detect “mystery molecule” in exoplanet’s atmosphere (3 minute read)

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of WASP-39b, a gas giant about 700 million light years away.

A former Facebook exec says an employee at a 'large tech company' once complained to the CEO in an all-hands meeting about the quality of company toilet paper (3 minute read)

Tech employees are seeing fewer office perks and this trend will likely continue.

Tales of the M1 GPU (19 minute read)

This article discusses the process of building drivers to make the M1 GPU work with Asahi Linux.

WasmEdge (GitHub Repo)

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