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Big Tech & Startups

iOS 17.2 arrives with new Journal app and spatial video capture support (3 minute read)

iOS 17.2 is now available for compatible devices. The update includes a new Journal app designed to get users writing about events in their lives with prompts that draw from data on their phones. The update also adds the option to record spatial videos. Other features include the ability to set the iPhone 15 Pro's Action Button to translate phrases, new Weather widgets, new features for the Messages app, Qi2 support for the iPhone 13 and 14, and more. Apple also recently released watchOS 10.2 and tvOS 17.2.

Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round (3 minute read)

Mistral AI has closed its Series A funding round, raising around $415 million. The company, which is valued at roughly $2 billion, is opening up its commercial platform today. The platform will allow developers to access the Mistral 7B model, Mistral-medium, and the new Mixtral 8x7B model, which uses a router network to process input tokens and choose the most apt group of parameters to give answers. Mixtral 8x7B has been released under the Apache 2.0 license and is available as a free download.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

The race between Intel, Samsung, and TSMC to ship the first 2 nm chip (7 minute read)

The world's leading semiconductor companies are racing to make 2-nanometer processor chips to power the next generation of technologies. Smaller transistors mean less energy consumption and higher speeds. The chip industry pulled in well over $500 billion in global chip sales last year and demand is projected to grow further. Several companies say they will be ready to ship 2nm ships in 2025.

GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors (2 minute read)

General Motors will use Autocar's hydrogen fuel-cell technology to power a range of its heavy-duty work vehicles. Hydrotec power cubes are lightweight, enabling large payloads, excellent range, and quick refueling. The first vehicles with the power cubes will go into production in 2026. Hydrotec technology is currently being sold to commercial and military customers, but there are plans to offer residential versions of the technology in the future.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Biome (GitHub Repo)

Biome is a performant toolchain for web projects that aims to provide developers with tools for maintaining the health of their projects. It features a fast formatter and performant linter for JavaScript, TypeScript, and JSX. Biome is designed to be used interactively within an editor. It can format and lint malformed code as it is being written.

Huh? (GitHub Repo)

Huh? is a simple library for building interactive forms and prompts in the terminal. It can be used as a standalone application or be integrated into Bubble Tea applications. Huh? contains a first-class accessible mode for screen readers. Examples of how to use the library are available.

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Miscellaneous

Why Are We Surprised That Startups Are So Freaking Hard? (10 minute read)

Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang recently said that if he could be 30 again, he wouldn't start a company as the work he put into Nvidia wasn't worth it. This article explores Huang's statement from a founder's perspective with a focus on figuring out why it's such a surprise to people that building a startup would be hard. No matter how successful a company is, nearly every founder says that the work was much harder than they thought it would be. This doesn't happen in fields like sports, where athletes work hard for decades but they are never surprised about how hard it was.

Google Provides Insight into the Top Search Trends of 2023, and the Last 25 Years (3 minute read)

Google's latest 'Year in Search' overview highlights the most searched topics over the past year. It provides global and regional insights as well as interactive displays, games, and more. Google added a new element dedicated to historic Search trends to celebrate 25 years of Search. It allows users to see how things have evolved over the years and how that's reflected in the top trends.

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What’s new in AWS innovation? (Sponsor)

The AWS innovation Ambassadors Podcast showcases use cases such as generative AI, cloud cost optimization, scaling workloads, and more. Listen to the latest episode

TikTok becomes first non-game app to reach $10B in consumer spending (3 minute read)

TikTok entered 2023 with more than $6.2 billion in consumer spending already and then added another $3.8 billion throughout the year.

Wi-Fi 7 is nearly here – 2024 could be the year wireless speeds get turbocharged (2 minute read)

Wi-Fi 7 offers speeds of up to 40 Gbit/s - five times quicker than Wi-Fi 6.

Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (4 minute read)

It is unclear what the outcome of the case will be as Epic never sued for monetary damages - it wants the court to tell Google that every app developer has total freedom to introduce its open app stores and billing systems on Android.

Marmot (GitHub Repo)

Marmot is a distributed SQLite replicator that creates robust replications between nodes by building on top of fault-tolerant NATS JetStream.

The hidden depths of the input element (11 minute read)

This article looks beyond the various types that HTML's input element can embody to lesser-known attributes that make the element more usable, accessible, and applicable to more situations.

Beeper is working with iMessage yet again, though Apple is likely to fight it (4 minute read)

Beeper Mini now requires signing in with an Apple ID - developers are working on a fix to bring back the phone-number-only method available at Beeper Mini's launch.

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Apple's 3D video feature 📱, Google's 2023 top searches 🔎, Mistral launches LLM API 🤖

TLDR 2023-12-12

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