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Google CEO says more job cu=
ts are needed in 2024 in order to reach =E2=80=98ambitious goals=E2=80=99 (=
2 minute read)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned emp=
loyees that more job cuts are coming this year. The company leadership is p=
reparing its AI goals for the year and will publish its 2024 objectives and=
key results this week. Pichai says that the layoffs won't be at the scale =
of last year's reductions and will not touch every team. Alphabet shares ju=
mped 55% last year and its revenue in the third quarter returned to double-=
digit growth alongside a rebound in the digital ad market.
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Everything Samsung announce=
d at its Galaxy S24 event today (5 minute read)
Samsung just held its Galaxy Unpacked e=
vent, announcing three new smartphones to start the new year. It also intro=
duced an artificial intelligence platform. The Galaxy S24 Ultra has a 6.8-i=
nch QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X display with a 1-120Hz refresh rate. The Samsung=
Galaxy S24 boasts a 6.2-inch FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X display that supports =
a 1-120Hz refresh rate, and the Galaxy S24 Plus features a 6.7-inch QHD+ di=
splay. All phones come with Samsung's new Vision booster, which enhances ou=
tdoor visibility with its 2,600-nit peak brightness. Galaxy AI includes fiv=
e key features: Live Translate, Interpreter, Chat Assist, Note Assist, and =
Transcript Assist.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Meet Helios, a new class of=
space tug with some real muscle (2 minute read)
Space tugs are miniature spacecraft tha=
t ferry small satellites to designated orbits. They are particularly useful=
for satellites that launch as part of a rideshare mission that seek to rea=
ch a different altitude or inclination than that of the primary payload. Im=
pulse Space has built an in-space tug that can haul bigger satellites to mo=
re distant orbits. Helios is sized to fit within a Falcon 9 fairing and des=
igned to fly on any medium- or heavy-lift vehicle to boost its capability. =
It will allow satellites to reach geostationary orbit within a day at a muc=
h lower cost than current alternatives.
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AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-=
level AI system for geometry (5 minute read)
AlphaGeometry is an AI system that solv=
es complex geometry problems at a level approaching a human Olympiad gold m=
edalist. It can solve 25 out of 30 Olympiad geometry problems within the st=
andard Olympiad time limit - the average human gold medalist solves 25.9 pr=
oblems in the same time. AlphaGeometry uses a neural language model with a =
rule-bound deduction engine to find solutions. Its output is both verifiabl=
e and clean and it uses classical geometry rules with angles and similar tr=
iangles just as students do.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Beware of misleading GPU vs=
CPU benchmarks (4 minute read)
Nvidia's RAPIDS project claims that cuD=
F, a GPU-based Pandas replacement, is up to 80 times faster than Pandas. Wh=
ile these speed-ups are impressive, they're also misleading. The benchmarks=
compare against Pandas running on a single CPU core - while the Pandas lib=
rary is single-threaded, fixing this doesn't require using a GPU. It also i=
gnores costs - switching to a GPU may make things faster, but they are sign=
ificantly more expensive. GPUs may still be an appropriate solution for som=
e tasks, but it will require careful experimentation to determine if they a=
re right for the use case and budget.
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Brace yourself, IPv6 is com=
ing (5 minute read)
AWS will start charging around $4 per m=
onth for IPv4 addresses on February 1. While IPv6 is clearly a good thing, =
there are still challenges to switching to it. The biggest challenge to glo=
bal adoption is ISP support. A lot of developer tools aren't set up for IPv=
6 yet. If you want to ensure your company continues to run smoothly after F=
ebruary 1, start making as many changes as possible now.
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I spent the morning with th=
e Apple Vision Pro (11 minute read)
Apple is giving select members of the m=
edia Vision Pro demos this week. This article describes to readers what the=
experience is like. The demo aims to walk through as many elements as poss=
ible in roughly 60 minutes, from face scans to the spatial desktop to movie=
watching, while unfortunately skipping over gaming. The author wasn't full=
y convinced the device was a compelling buy at $3,500 as the price is prohi=
bitively expensive for the majority of people interested in the system and =
there is still a lack of Vision Pro-specific apps on the system.
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Amazon reportedly unsatisfi=
ed with a paid version of Alexa, faces internal conflict (3 minute read)
Amazon has been working on a paid subsc=
ription for Alexa, but there have been company conflicts revolving around t=
he new technology. Alexa Plus will supposedly feature all the functionaliti=
es that the current Alexa offers, but with a more personalized and conversa=
tional AI. It is expected to launch on June 30. Amazon has been struggling =
to improve the AI, which still provides inaccurate information, and reduce =
costs.
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Kindllm (Website)
Kindllm is a large language model chat =
web app optimized for the Kindle.
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