Today’s Byte Size News

Oracle takes a Country Music Detour 🤠

Are your cowboy boots collecting dust? It's time to dust them off because Oracle is moving to Nashville ! Adding quite the number to the Tennessee budget, Oracle scored a sexy $175 million incentive from Nashville with an extra $65 million sprinkled in from the state to set up its campus in 2021. Don't worry, no extra city incentives sweetened this deal before Oracle made its big announcement. Oracle's attraction to Tennessee isn't just good food and country music, but the booming healthcare industry. With over 300,000 people filling out the healthcare employment roster and adding a whopping $68 billion to the region's kitty, it's no mystery why Oracle is belting out 'Tennessee here I come!'

ByteDance's TikTok Turmoil 😱

Would you rather shut a business down entirely or sell it off? ByteDance chose option A and would rather slam the door on TikTok than consider Tag Sale Sunday. The U.S provides only a quarter of TikTok's revenue and represents a measly 5% of ByteDance's active users across all platforms. Pushed against a tight deadline for sale, and the probability of a slashed sale price, ByteDance deemed keeping its pride intact a better option. Selling would also mean parting with the algorithm whizz kid powering TikTok’s video recommendations, and frankly, that was just a complication too many.

Dawning of the Robotics Renaissance 🤖

Got tin men fantasies? Well, you're in luck! Over the next decade, androids are marching off movie screens and into industrial spaces and everyday life. The wizards of AI have transformed robot capabilities, enabling learning from online text, images, and videos. Strap yourselves in folks, it's time to explore the modern robotics industry, the trailblazing technologies, the significant players and the societal effect from their entrance.

Voyager 1 Decodes Interstellar Spacecraft Signals 🚀

Breaking news: NASA engineers, proving they're real-life Tony Stark’s, managed to restore a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. With Voyager's location being a staggering 15 billion miles away, each command and its response took two long days. After delivering gibberish data since November, NASA's boffins tracked the issue to a chip, possibly damaged by an off course cosmic ray or old age. Now repaired, it’s 'All systems go' for the interstellar explorer.

llamafile is Mozilla’s Pet Project 🦙

What's hairy, has four legs, and is making big waves on Github? It’s Mozilla’s llamafile project! Four months in and it's become one of the platform's top three repositories. llamafile is taking tech by storm as it allows users to run a variety of large language models on consumer hardware. From its humble v0.1 beginnings, the recent release has introduced support for various open models and some impressive CPU inference performance upgrades. llamafile - more like Dramafile, amirite?