Subj : Tesla's disastrous quarter 🚗, Vision Pro Personas 🧍‍♂️, Bun supports Windows 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Wed Apr 03 2024 10:34 am --YsCSiccD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tesla reported a drop in vehicle deliveries in the first quarter=C2=A0 = Sign Up [1]|Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR =09=09TO= GETHER WITH [Dollar Flight Club] [4] TLDR 2024-04-03 TLDR EXCLUS= IVE OFFER: SPEND $1 TODAY & SAVE UP TO $50K ON TRAVEL (SPONSOR) [4]=20 = TLDR has your back this year. TRY DOLLAR FLIGHT CLUB FOR JUST $1 IF Y= OU SIGN UP IN THE NEXT 12 HOURS [4] to save up to $2K on every single fli= ght, every year, for life. 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Spatial Personas is = still in beta.=20 TESLA SHARES FALL AFTER DELIVERIES DROP 8.5% FROM A Y= EAR AGO (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 Tesla reported a drop in vehicle deliv= eries in the first quarter. Deliveries are the closest approximation of s= ales reported by Tesla. The numbers for the quarter fell far below even t= he most bearish of analysts' expectations. Tesla faced numerous challenge= s in the first quarter. The company has scheduled an earnings call on Apr= il 23 to discuss quarterly results.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FU= TURISTIC TECHNOLOGY BLINK TO GENERATE POWER FOR SMART CONTACT LENSES = (3 MINUTE READ) [7]=20 A team from the University of Utah has developed= an all-in-one hybrid energy-generation unit designed specifically for ey= e-based tech. The device combines a flexible silicon solar cell with a de= vice that converts electrolytes within tears into energy. It can reliably= supply enough electricity to operate smart contacts and other ocular dev= ices. The system is an exciting development in the realm of smart contact= lenses as the field has been held back by a lack of a sustainable powe= r source.=20 NEW BRAIN CAP LETS PEOPLE PLAY VIDEO GAMES WITH THEIR MIND= S (3 MINUTE READ) [8]=20 Researchers have created a wearable brain-co= mputer interface (BCI) that allows wearers to play games using their mind= s. The cap can be used without extensive calibration or the invasive surg= ical procedures required by other BCIs. It has been tested on healthy peo= ple with no motor impairments who were able to use it to control robots w= ithin minutes. The technology has yet to be proven on people with disab= ilities.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE B= UN 1.1 (37 MINUTE READ) [9]=20 Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for running= , building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Its 1.1 upd= ate contains thousands of bug fixes, tons of new features and APIs, and W= indows support. 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    Apple's Spatial Personas fo= r the Vision Pro bring your FaceTime callers into the room (3 minute read)<= /strong>

    The Apple Vision Pro's new Spatial Pers= onas feature creates floating animated portraits in users' session spaces, = using AI to sync the avatar to match users' head, mouth, and hand movements= .. It uses real-time movement tracking to create a more personal sensation o= f the other user being in the room. 2D tiles are still the default. The fea= ture works with up to five users on a FaceTime call. Spatial Personas is st= ill in beta.
    Tesla shares fall after del= iveries drop 8.5% from a year ago (3 minute read)

    Tesla reported a drop in vehicle delive= ries in the first quarter. Deliveries are the closest approximation of sale= s reported by Tesla. The numbers for the quarter fell far below even the mo= st bearish of analysts' expectations. Tesla faced numerous challenges in th= e first quarter. The company has scheduled an earnings call on April 23 to = discuss quarterly results.
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    Science & Futuristic Technology

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    Blink to Generate Power for= Smart Contact Lenses (3 minute read)

    A team from the University of Utah has = developed an all-in-one hybrid energy-generation unit designed specifically= for eye-based tech. The device combines a flexible silicon solar cell with= a device that converts electrolytes within tears into energy. It can relia= bly supply enough electricity to operate smart contacts and other ocular de= vices. The system is an exciting development in the realm of smart contact = lenses as the field has been held back by a lack of a sustainable power sou= rce.
    New Brain Cap Lets People P= lay Video Games With Their Minds (3 minute read)

    Researchers have created a wearable bra= in-computer interface (BCI) that allows wearers to play games using their m= inds. The cap can be used without extensive calibration or the invasive sur= gical procedures required by other BCIs. It has been tested on healthy peop= le with no motor impairments who were able to use it to control robots with= in minutes. The technology has yet to be proven on people with disabilities= ..
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    Programming, Design & Data Science

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    Bun 1.1 (37 minute read)

    Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for runnin= g, building, testing, and debugging JavaScript and TypeScript. Its 1.1 upda= te contains thousands of bug fixes, tons of new features and APIs, and Wind= ows support. This post details the changes in Bun 1.1. The Bun team is curr= ently hiring for its in-person team in San Francisco.
    Lightning Whisper MLX (GitH= ub Repo)

    Lightning Whisper MLX is an incredibly = fast implementation of Whisper optimized for Apple Silicon. It features bat= ched decoding for higher throughput, distilled models for faster decoding, = and quantized models for faster memory movement. Lightning Whisper MLX is 1= 0 times faster than Whisper CPP and four times faster than the current MLX = Whisper implementation.
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    Google to Fight Cookie Hija= cking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser (5 minute read)

    Malware can hijack login sessions by ac= cessing browser cookies. Google is trying to mitigate this threat with a ne= w system called Device Bound Session Credentials, which uses encryption to = prevent hijacking attempts. It will develop the system openly on GitHub as = a public coding project. There is already a prototype of the system running= as an experiment for some users on Chrome Beta. Google plans to kick off m= ore trials of the system with website developers and users by the end of th= e year.
    California introduces 'righ= t to disconnect' bill that would allow employees to possibly relax (3 minut= e read)

    A new 'right to disconnect' proposition= introduced in California, if passed, would make employers in California la= y out exactly what a person's hours are and ensure that they aren't require= d to respond to work-related communications while off the clock. There are = exceptions for emergencies and salaried employees may have periods in which= they may have to work longer hours. Companies would be fined a minimum of = $100 for wrongdoing. It is unclear how much support exists for the bill, wh= ich follows similar legislation in other countries.
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    Yahoo is buying Artifact, t= he AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (4 minute read)

    Yahoo is acquiring Artifact=E2=80=99s t= ech rather than its team - Artifact's co-founders will be 'special advisors= ' for Yahoo but won't be joining the company and the company's five remaini= ng employees have either gotten other jobs or are planning to take some tim= e off.
    The =E2=80=98Meta AI mafia= =E2=80=99 brain drain continues with at least 3 more high-level departures = (7 minute read)

    At least three high-level Meta AI emplo= yees, including senior director of engineering Erik Meijer, senior director= of generative AI Devi Parikh, and research scientist Abhishek Das, have de= parted from the company in the past few weeks to strike out on their own.
    Amazon gives up on no-check= out shopping in its grocery stores (2 minute read)

    Amazon is switching its 'Just Walk Out'= system to 'Dash Carts', where customers scan products as they put them int= o carts.
    Bringing Python to Workers = using Pyodide and WebAssembly (16 minute read)

    This post explains how Cloudflare integ= rated a Python implementation into workerd, an open-source Workers runtime,= going into how Python Workers work, what its team learned in the process, = and what's next for the company.
    Timeline of the xz open sou= rce attack (13 minute read)

    'Jia Tan', the attacker who implemented= the first serious known supply chain attack on widely used open source sof= tware, worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression li= brary for over two years.
    We all live on a knife's ed= ge, and it's fine (9 minute read)

    We live on the edge of experiencing his= toric global catastrophes every day - the solution is to have many people w= orking on a large number of solutions to make these catastrophes even less = likely.
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