TLDR 2023-06-02

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Mark Zuckerberg posted a teaser for Meta's Quest 3 headset on Instagram on Thursday. The Quest 3 will launch in the fall for $499. Meta appears to still be spending heavily on the metaverse. Its Reality Labs unit reported an operating loss of $3.99 billion in the company's first quarter while generating $399 million in revenue. The price for the Quest Pro headset that launched last October has been dropped from $1,499.99 to $999.99. A link to the teaser video is available in the article.

AMD was floundering when Lisa Su took over as CEO in 2014. Su was able to take advantage of missteps by Intel and signed deals with many large customers, bringing the company out of trouble and even overtaking rival Intel in market capitalization. AMD now plans to produce chips to break Nvidia's near-monopoly on the processors that power generative AI technologies. The company plans to have AI in every one of its products in five years. This article talks about Su's time at AMD and her plans for the company for the next few years.

Seattle-based startup Hubble Network wants to launch a satellite network that any Bluetooth-enabled device from anywhere in the world can connect to. It aims to build out a constellation of 300 satellites to provide real-time updates for any sensor or device with a Bluetooth low-energy chip. Hubble's technology allows radio signals to be detected around 1,000 kilometers away. The company plans to launch an initial batch of four satellites in January 2024.

Researchers at UCLA and Tel Aviv University have found a way to improve people's memories by stimulating the brain with gentle electric pulses during sleep. The researchers suspected that the part of the brain where memories are initially stored communicates with another part of the brain during sleep as part of the process of memory consolidation. The study confirmed the communication between the two parts of the brain and demonstrated a way to strengthen the connection. The team is now exploring whether AI can help identify brain activity linked to specific memories.

Lance is a modern data format for machine learning. It provides faster random access, a vector index, data versioning, and more. Lance is compatible with pandas, duckdb, polars, and pyarrow. It can be used for building search engines and feature stores, large-scale ML training, and storing, querying, and inspecting deeply nested data.

Chrome's devtools allow developers to watch animations play out in slow motion. This enables easier debugging. Some issues happen too fast and can't be detected without slow motion. To watch animations in slow motion, developers just need to access the console drawer in Chrome devtools and then choose the 'Animations' panel from the 'More' menu. A menu will appear that allows users to set animation speed.

Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. Several self-driving projects have shut down their efforts since. Many people now view self-driving technology as an expensive failure. However, a handful of well-funded projects have continued to work on the technology. This article looks at the current leaders in the self-driving industry, Waymo and Cruise, the state of the industry, the challenges the industry faces, and the future of the industry. It also covers Tesla's Full Self Driving technology.

Falcon is a large language model developed by the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. It offers better performance than LLaMA, a GPT-level large language model developed by Meta. Falcon is the most powerful open-source language model to date. It uses a modified Apache license, which means that it can be fine-tuned and used for commercial purposes. Falcon is the first open-source large language model that extends beyond research limitations.

There is evidence that the tech industry is moving away from credentials, which means that people can worry less about which college they attend or even whether they should attend college.

The new policy will not impact existing workers who primarily work remotely.

Researchers from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Tokamak Energy Ltd recently achieved temperatures of nearly 100 million degrees Celsius in a compact tokamak.

Moore's Law will likely end soon, but humans will likely find ways around bottlenecks and continue innovation.

ko makes building Go container images easy, fast, and secure.

Several dozen employees from security firm Kaspersky were hit with an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits to infect their iPhones to collect microphone recordings, photos, geolocation, and other data.