ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps (2 minute read)
OpenAI has released ChatGPT and Whisper AI APIs for developers. ChatGPT is a model for generating coherent text and is priced at $0.002 per 1,000 tokens (about 750 words). The Whisper API is priced at $0.006 per minute. It accepts audio inputs in multiple formats and can transcribe audio to text with accuracy comparable to a skilled human transcriptionist. OpenAI has modified its terms of service to no longer use data submitted for service improvements, including model training.
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This is Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (8 minute read)
Meta has announced its roadmap for augmented and virtual reality products. The company plans to launch its first pair of smart glasses with a display and a neural interface smartwatch to control them in 2025 and its first full-fledged AR glasses in 2027. Later this year, the company will release its flagship Quest 3 headset, which will be two times thinner than its predecessor, at least twice as powerful, and slightly more expensive at $400. A more 'accessible' headset codenamed Ventura is planned for release in 2024
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Meet the world’s first artificial energy island (2 minute read)
Princess Elisabeth Island is an artificial energy island being developed by Elia, a Belgian electricity transmission system operator. It will act as a hub for electricity transmission, receiving power from the Princess Elisabeth Zone, the second Belgian offshore wind zone, and from interconnectors with other European countries. Construction is expected to begin in early 2024 with completion in mid-2026 and full connection to all wind farms and the mainland by 2030. The Belgian government has awarded the project a grant of €100 million. A video about the project is available in the article.
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Microsoft unveils Kosmos-1, an AI language model with visual perception abilities (3 minute read)
Microsoft researchers have introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that is capable of analyzing images for content, solving visual puzzles, recognizing visual text, and understanding natural language instructions. The model is seen as a step towards building an artificial general intelligence that can perform tasks at the same level as humans. Kosmos-1 can analyze images, read text from an image, and write captions for images. Microsoft plans to make Kosmos-1 available to developers.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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MRSK (GitHub Repo)
MRSK is a web app deployment tool that features zero downtime. It works seamlessly across multiple hosts and can be used to deploy any type of web app that can be containerized. It was built for Rails applications but can be used with other types of apps. MRSK can be used with cloud services or on bare metal servers and can be set up in minutes.
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Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning (14 minute read)
This article explores the CSS anchor positioning API and presents a variety of solutions for tethering elements. Currently, developers must rely on tracking positions, using wrapper elements, or introducing extra markup with JavaScript, which can be challenging and inefficient. The CSS anchor positioning API is a CSS API for tethering elements, allowing developers to size and position one element based on the size and position of another.
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Tesla Investor Day news hub: Master Plan Part 3, new vehicle platform and more (2 minute read)
Tesla held its first Investor Day at Gigafactory Texas in Austin yesterday. At the event, CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Master Plan Part 3, which outlined plans to scale to 20 million vehicles per year by the end of the decade. Tesla discussed long term expansion plans, its generation 3 platform, capital allocation, and supply chain strategies. It also announced new factories, including Gigafactory Mexico. A video recording of the event is available in the article.
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Four Experts on Tech Hiring Talk About Where the Jobs Are (8 minute read)
Despite fears of artificial intelligence leading to mass unemployment, the unemployment rate for computer and mathematical occupations is just 1.5%, far below the 3.9% for the overall workforce. This article features interviews with four experts in the tech hiring scene on why humans are still needed in the tech sector. There is still enormous demand for people who know how to work with big data and AI can't replace jobs that require understanding human needs.
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