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Daily Update 2023-01-18

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Big Tech & Startups

ChatGPT will be coming to our API (1 minute read)

ChatGPT will be available soon on OpenAI's API and Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service. OpenAI has updated ChatGPT based on feedback from the research preview. A link for the ChatGPT API waitlist is available.

New M2-powered MacBook Pros and minis have 8K video, Wi-Fi 6E, dozens of cores (2 minute read)

Apple has unveiled new MacBook Pros and Mac minis based on its M2 Pro and M2 Max chips. The M2 chips enable 8K video output, Wi-Fi 6E, up to 96GB of unified memory, and an extended battery life. The M2 Pro is 25 percent faster than the M1 Pro chip for Xcode compiling. The M2 MacBook Pros and minis can be preordered now and will be available on January 24.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

A woman receives the first-ever successful transplant of a living, 3D-printed ear (2 minute read)

A woman has received a 3D-printed ear transplant as part of the first clinical trial of human-cell-3D-printed grafts. The cells for the ear were grown from cells taken from the patient. Results from the trial so far are promising. If the transplant is successful, the researchers will explore how other replacement body parts can be created via 3D printing.

Scientists gave a robot a sense of smell with locust antennae and AI (2 minute read)

Researchers from Tel Aviv University recently published a paper about a robot that can identify smells with 10,000 times more sensitivity than some specialized electronics. The robot features a set of desert locust antennae connected to a system that measures signals produced by the antennae when they detect a smell. It can reliably differentiate between eight 'pure' odors. Locusts have been used previously to detect cancer cells and bombs.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Git security vulnerabilities announced (3 minute read)

The Git project has released new versions to address security vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities affect Git's commit formatting mechanism, .gitattributes parser, and $PATH lookup in Windows and may result in arbitrary code execution. A link to a complete report about the vulnerabilities is available in the article.

Gluon (GitHub Repo)

Gluon is a framework for creating desktop apps from websites using system installed browsers and NodeJS. It supports Chromium and Firefox based browsers as the frontend. Gluon features fast build times and tiny bundle sizes. It works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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Miscellaneous

Nest smart thermostat co-founder is back with a new device for the home, focused on food (4 minute read)

Matt Rogers, founder of Nest Labs, launched his latest venture focused on combating food waste on Tuesday. Mill is a kitchen bin that dehydrates food waste overnight, turning it into 'food grounds' that can be shipped back to the company via mail. The food grounds are repurposed into an ingredient for chicken feed and sent to farms. The service currently costs $33 a month.

After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas (4 minute read)

In this Twitter thread, Nikita Bier, who just sold his social app (Gas) to Discord after selling his first app (TBH) to Facebook, discusses lessons learned throughout 10 years of building consumer apps. Topics covered include testing, targeting, habit formation, customer behavior, and retention.

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Pure.css (Website)

This website contains a set of small CSS modules that can be used in any web project.

The Art of Knowing When to Quit (3 minute read)

Our culture's impulse is to wring every last cent out of any creative endeavor, but it is important to know when and how to bring something to an end.

Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees tomorrow (2 minute read)

Microsoft is said to be looking at cutting around five percent of its workforce.

Meetings for an effective eng organization (15 minute read)

Many meetings are bad, but they can be an exceptionally valuable part of an organization if they are done correctly.

cleanlab (GitHub Repo)

cleanlab is a package that automatically detects problems in a machine learning dataset and provides clean labels for training and flagging errors in data.

With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great (8 minute read)

The first installment of interest payments for the $13 billion of debt Elon Musk used to fund Twitter's takeover is rumored to be due as soon as the end of January.

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ChatGPT API 🤖, vulnerability discovered in Git 👨‍💻, Nest cofounder's next-gen waste bin 🗑️

Daily Update 2023-01-18

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