Macs to Get AI-Focused M4 C=
hips Starting in Late 2024 (1 minute read)
The entire Mac lineup may get the M4 ch=
ip in late 2024 and early 2025. The chip will start appearing in the iMac, =
MacBook Pros, and Mac mini machines first before being implemented into the=
MacBook Air, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro. The M4 processor is expected to come=
in at least three varieties. It will feature an improved Neural Engine wit=
h an increased number of cores for AI tasks.
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Humane AI Hands-On: My Life=
So Far With a Wearable AI Pin (9 minute read)
While the Humane AI Pin could be the fu=
ture of wearables, it doesn't currently have enough consistency or connecti=
vity. This article reviews the device and describes what it is like using i=
t. There is still a lot of room for improvement, for example, the laser dis=
play can be hard to read and the interface can be difficult to navigate. Th=
e device also overheats after a few minutes of use.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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ESA Satellites to Test Razo=
r-Sharp Formation Flying (3 minute read)
The European Space Agency will launch a=
mission later this year to demonstrate precision formation flying in orbit=
to create artificial solar eclipses. The mission will involve a pair of sp=
acecraft that will fly about 144 meters apart, with one spacecraft acting a=
s a disc to block out the sun from the other spacecraft. This will allow th=
e ESA to study the Sun's highly ionized atmosphere. The formation flying te=
chnology could be used for other future missions as well.
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Researchers find a new orga=
nelle evolving (4 minute read)
Endosymbiosis is a process in which a o=
nce free-living organism is incorporated into a cell. This can result in th=
e organism becoming an organelle, a compartment within cells surrounded by =
membranes that performs specialized functions. Researchers may have found a=
new case of the extremely rare event. An organelle devoted to fixing nitro=
gen from the atmosphere is being observed in the process of specialization.=
Called a nitroplast, the organelle is limited to a single lineage of algae=
, likely due to its relatively recent origin, with the relationship between=
the nitroplast and its host cell only dating back about 100 million years.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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I asked 100 devs why they a=
ren't shipping faster. Here's what I learned (14 minute read)
The things that slow devs down depend o=
n the company size, culture, the nature of the product, and the composition=
of the team. This article looks at what engineers from big tech companies =
think is slowing them down. Many devs say that build, compile, and deployme=
nt times are the main things slowing them down. Other factors include depen=
dency bugs, complicated codebases, development processes, tests, and review=
s.
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Predictive CPU isolation of=
containers at Netflix (11 minute read)
Computer architecture design has evolve=
d towards adding various levels of caching between compute units and the ma=
in memory to hide latency. These caches are partially shared among the CPUs=
, so perfect performance isolation of co-hosted containers is not possible.=
Netflix's team was able to meaningfully improve both the predictability an=
d performance of its containers by taking some of the CPU isolation respons=
ibility away from the operating system and moving towards a data-driven sol=
ution involving combinatorial optimization and machine learning. This post =
explains the process in detail.
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Apple opens access to used =
iPhone components for repair (7 minute read)
Apple has opened its iPhone repair proc=
ess to include used components for the iPhone 15. Customers and independent=
repair shops will be able to fix iPhones starting this fall using compatib=
le components, including the battery, display, and camera. Face ID will not=
be available when the feature first rolls out but will be implemented late=
r. Apple has no plans to sell refurbished parts for user repairs.
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Amazon CEO Touts AI Revolut=
ion While Committing to Cost Cuts (6 minute read)
In his annual letter to shareholders, A=
mazon CEO Andy Jassy laid out a vision for how generative AI could become t=
he company's next pillar of growth. The company has invested $4 billion in =
AI startup Anthropic and added prominent computer scientist and AI expert D=
r. Andrew Ng to its board. Amazon is taking a three-pronged approach to AI =
innovation: it will focus on AI models, applications built on top of the mo=
dels, and the chips that power the technology. The company is optimistic th=
at a lot of world-changing AI will be built on top of AWS.
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On dependencies and resilie=
nce (13 minute read)
The software development culture shift =
towards more dependencies is creating more products and companies that rely=
on closed-source software or APIs for their full functionality - this coul=
d have future negative implications.
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The UX of UUIDs (8 minute r=
ead)
This article details several improvemen=
ts to UUIDs that enhance their usability and efficiency in applications, pr=
oviding a better experience for both users and developers.
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