What’s New in the 2023 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation
Bun 1.0…Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun.
Starting your day with #copilot telling you what matters in your inbox and suggest key steps to address what is needed will take less than your morning pour over #MSEventpic.twitter.com/z0R7HE3LbW
Apple Taps New Chief for Team Developing Watch’s Glucose Tracker…”…Apple Inc. has named a new leader for its secret group working on a noninvasive blood sugar monitor, putting a veteran iPhone and Mac chip executive in charge of one of the company’s most ambitious forays into health technology…”
Experimenting with Machine Learning to Target In-App Messaging
“…Sources: Meta is exploring whether to show ads in WhatsApp and charge a subscription fee to use the app without ads; WhatsApp denies working on such a feature…”
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $147,000
The SoftBank-backed company that lets you buy glasses over WhatsApp
DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.
Revel, the car subscription startup from Spain, raises $123M to take its business up a gear
First Pass Ranker and Ad Retrieval, Ad Level Optimization for Reddit Ads
“…In 2022, AirPods reportedly brought in $14.5 billion in revenue. Assuming a 50% profit margin, that’s over $7 billion in profit just from a single product. To put this into perspective, AirPods is more profitable than Uber, Spotify, Airbnb, Snapchat and eBay. Combined…”
AI-powered brain implants help paralyzed patients communicate faster than ever
California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems…New system scans over 1,000 cameras for signs of smoke—with 77 hits so far.
Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis and die if climate crisis continues, scientists warn…The average critical temperature beyond which photosynthetic machinery in tropical trees begins to fail is 116 degrees Fahrenheit (46.7 degrees Celsius).
Drought affecting Panama Canal threatens 40% of world’s cargo ship traffic
Nvidia press release announcing the company’s financial results, which include a quarterly revenue of $13.51 billion, up 101 percent from a year ago and 88 percent from the previous quarter.
“…Some of the world’s biggest advertisers, from food giant Nestle to consumer goods multinational Unilever, are experimenting with using generative AI software like ChatGPT and DALL-E to cut costs and increase productivity, executives say…”
Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
OpenAI said it had acquired digital products company Global Illumination, in what comes as the first known acquisition by the storied artificial intelligence firm
Neuroscientists decode song from brain recordings, revealing areas dealing with rhythm and vocals
Excellent deep dive on GPU supply and demand. Covers everything from startups' needs to public cloud capacity to the chemicals required for producing GPUs (!!). https://t.co/fVXLE2jDmFpic.twitter.com/9jonl7dWBy
Zoom Ends No-Meeting Wednesday Policy, Calling It ‘Barrier to Collaboration’
“…Once again we can learn about IT strategy and architecture from popular culture: the engine room matters…”
Volume Down, Subtitles On: 51% of Us Read Along With Our Favorite Shows
Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
Jeli is bringing generative AI to incident report analysis
July was world’s hottest month on record, climate scientists confirm
Video calls are coming to X, formerly Twitter, CEO confirms
In this situation, I would chose to learn the language my tools were written in. If I were using Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, or Terraform, then I would be learning Go over Python.
Mainly so I could troubleshoot, extend, or contribute back to the tools I rely on. https://t.co/3RlPGo4Sgo
Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
Qualcomm, NXP Team Up to Develop Rival to Arm Chip Standard
Apple Tops 1 Billion Paid Subscriptions, Services Revenue Climbs to Record $21.2 Billion in June Quarter
AWS segment sales increased 12% year-over-year to $22.1 billion…Amazon’s online advertising unit just brought in over $10 billion in the second quarter
Microsoft kills Cortana in Windows as it focuses on next-gen AI
Spotify introduces new product to help software development teams with A/B testing
The Transformative Power of Generative AI in Software Development: Lessons from Uber’s Tech-Wide Hackathon
Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
Google is offering an on-campus hotel ‘special’ to help lure workers back to the office
Hackers Could Have Scored Unlimited Airline Miles by Targeting One Platform
Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
🔹 list: keep your Twitter feeds 🔹 stack: support undo/redo of the word editor 🔹 queue: keep printer jobs, or send user actions in-game 🔹 heap: task scheduling 🔹 tree: keep the HTML document, or for AI decision 🔹 suffix tree:… pic.twitter.com/swDVhv4YEx
Meta launches Llama 2, a source-available AI model that allows commercial applications
Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription“…It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions…”
Google restricting internet access to some employees to reduce cyberattack risk
Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
Nvidia nears deal for stake in Lambda Labs – report
US government launches the Cyber Trust Mark, its long-awaited IoT security labeling program
Microsoft launches vector search in preview, voice cloning in general availability
Tesla launches ‘Charge on Solar’ to charge your cars with sunshine“…Your vehicle will charge from solar and the grid when your current charge level is below the left sun slider. After your vehicle’s charge level passes the sun slider, your vehicle automatically switches to only charge on excess solar up to your charge limit…”
“Telecom Italia…about 25 years ago a group of executives from the carrier flew to California to meet Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, with an audacious plan to buy the tech company at a time it was struggling to make headway against rivals like International Business Machines Corp…”
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October
“…The newest feature of ChatGPT…It’s called “custom instructions,” and it gives you a place to tell your chatbot the things it should always know about you and how you’d like it to respond to your questions. …It should be particularly helpful on mobile devices…”
GitHub’s Copilot Chat AI feature is now available in public beta
Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work
Mojo is a newly presented programming language that combines the simplicity of Python with the speed and memory security of Rust. Mojo programming manual
“…As of May 2023, around 440 nuclear reactors were operating in 33 countries with a capacity of 390GWe, according to the World Nuclear Association, while a further 60 power reactors are being constructed in 15 countries including China, India and Russia…”