AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app (2 minute read)
OpenAI has released a free ChatGPT app for iPhones in the US. The app supports voice input and it synchronizes chat history with the web version of the AI assistant. ChatGPT Plus subscribers have access to similar features as the web version. The app will roll out to more countries in the coming weeks. It will be available for Android 'soon'. Screenshots from the app are available in the article.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Physicists Create Biggest-Ever Schrödinger's Cat (3 minute read)
Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have created a sapphire crystal that exists in a quantum-mechanical superposition of two vibrational states. The 16-microgram crystal is the largest object ever to exist in the state of quantum superposition. Larger objects do not follow quantum mechanics, even though they are composed of particles that obey the rules of quantum mechanics. Finding larger quantum superposition states is a way for scientists to stretch the limit of observed quantum-mechanical objects.
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Sanctuary AI’s new humanoid robot stands 5’7″ and lifts 55 lb (2 minute read)
Sanctuary AI has unveiled a bipedal robot called Phoenix. The robot is 5'7" and weighs 155 pounds. It is capable of lifting up to 55 pounds and traveling at up to three miles an hour. Phoenix has hands with 20 degrees of freedom. The company claims that Phoenix’s hands rival human hand dexterity. Phoenix is designed to be a general-purpose robot. A video showing the robot's design is available in the article.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs (5 minute read)
This page contains a small suite of command-line tools for working with ChatGPT and GPT-4. llm is a tool for sending prompts to OpenAI APIs. ttok is a tool for counting and truncating text based on tokens. strip-tags is a tool for stripping HTML tags from text and outputting a subset of a page based on CSS selectors. These tools are designed to support working with language model prompts using Unix pipes.
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NuxtLabs UI (GitHub Repo)
This package provides everything related to UI when building a Nuxt application. It supports HMR, dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, and bundled icons. Nuxt is a framework for creating type-safe, performant, and production-grade full-stack web applications and websites with Vue.js.
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Critics say Google’s new .zip and .mov domains will be a boon to scammers (12 minute read)
Google added eight new top-level domains (TLDs) to the internet two weeks ago. Security experts have warned that two of these domains, .zip and .mov, may cause confusion when displayed in emails, social media, or elsewhere. Threat actors can easily register domain names with these TLDs to lure people into clicking and downloading malicious content. Google said in a statement that it would monitor the usage of the new TLDs for any threats.
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Meet Spacetop, a radical new laptop with no screen (8 minute read)
Sightful's Spacetop laptop uses augmented reality glasses to create a 100-inch virtual display. The laptop does not have a screen. It is designed for business travelers who want a massive private display. The Spacetop has an optimized Arm processor and runs on an open-source Android operating system. The tethered headset provides a 53-degree diagonal field of view. Pictures and a video showing off the device are available in the article.
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Jesth (GitHub Repo)
Jesth is a human-readable data serialization format that can create documents that contain an eclectic set of sections representing various types of data.
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