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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 (11 minute read)

Apple's Vision Pro headset will be available beginning on Friday, February 2 at all US Apple store locations and the US Apple Store online. Pre-orders for the device will begin on Friday, January 19. More than 1 million apps across iOS and iPadOS will work automatically on the Vision Pro since visionOS leverages existing developer frameworks. The Vision Pro will be available starting at $3,499 with 256GB of storage.

Waymo’s driverless cars are finally ready for the highway (2 minute read)

Waymo's fully driverless vehicles will soon start carrying passengers to and from their destinations on Phoenix's freeways. The company will start by offering driverless rides to just employees and their friends before opening up the service to other paying passengers. Waymo will use the data and feedback collected from these passengers to improve the service as it increases the number of miles it drives on highways. Using highways will allow Waymo to provide faster routes, especially for customers traveling to Phoenix's airports.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

from LG to samsung, transparent LED displays that project films on glass shake up CES 2024 (3 minute read)

LG and Samsung have unveiled transparent LED displays that project movies and images on glass-like holograms. LG's Signature OLED TV has a single see-through glass display that uses wireless AV transmission and reception technology to eliminate all kinds of wires other than the power source around the transparent screen. Samsung's transparent MICRO LED display can animate motionless surroundings and objects. Pictures and videos of both displays are available in the article.

Scientists restore vision in mice, achieve 170-fold gene editing boost (2 minute read)

Scientists at MIT and Harvard have designed tiny virus-like particles that can carry prime editors into mouse cells with a high success rate to correct a genetic disorder. The technique improves the editing process by 170 times in human cells. It was able to correct genetic mistakes and restore vision when tested on mice with genetic eye problems without creating any unintended changes.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

Attacks on machine learning models (7 minute read)

This blog attempts to shine a light on the topic of attacks on machine learning models. It aims to inform readers about neural network attacks, a topic worthy of attention for those deploying machine learning models in production. Machine learning models are just as susceptible to attacks as other systems, but they are extra hard to protect as they have both code and data vulnerabilities. Current defenses are not enough, and real fixes may require massive changes to model development. As long as model development involves pattern matching, attacks can never be truly prevented.

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Cutting-Edge Tech Is at CES 2024. These Are Our Faves Today (7 minute read)

This year's CES underscores how people are increasingly craving more niche devices and longing for the past. It also highlights the ways that AI is becoming more integrated into people's lives. This page presents the best tech highlights as they are announced this week in Las Vegas. The devices so far include a phone that folds backwards, a gaming laptop that weighs only 3.6 pounds, a thermometer that checks blood oxygen and heart rate readings, and a 115-inch 4K LCD TV that's up to five times brighter than most TVs.

State of AI & predictions for 2024 (11 minute read)

This article shares thoughts on the state of AI along with some predictions on where the technology is going. It looks at where products built with AI models are today, focusing on products, markets, and people. The article doesn't cover the technical details of architectures and the infrastructure of AI. This year, open source models will catch up with proprietary models and help push inference to edge devices everywhere.

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They’re not cheap, but Nvidia’s new Super GPUs are a step in the right direction (2 minute read)

Nvidia's new Super GPUs use the same architecture and support all the same features as their non-Super versions but with bumped specs and tweaked prices that make them more appealing.

Missing the point of webassembly (6 minute read)

Webassembly is a fundamental abstraction boundary that divides computing systems into pieces.

America’s first lunar lander in a half-century won’t reach the Moon (7 minute read)

The Peregrine lander appears to have a propellant leak that will prevent it from reaching the Moon.

Twilio CEO Lawson steps down after bruising activist battles (3 minute read)

Jeff Lawson will be replaced by Khozema Shipchandler, a longtime Twilio executive, a move that is unlikely to placate activists who are pushing for the divestiture of the business and possibly the sale of the whole company.

An Overview of Distributed PostgreSQL Architectures (16 minute read)

There are many types of distributed PostgreSQL architectures, each with a different set of tradeoffs - even with state-of-the-art tools, deploying a distributed database system is never a solved problem.

After taking credibility hit, Carta announces it is exiting the secondaries business: “We have decided to prioritize trust” (3 minute read)

Carta claims that the revenue derived from secondary trading on the platform is minuscule compared with its other business offerings.

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