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If you've ever dreamt of driving hands-free, Tesla just made your dream a touch cheaper. They have slashed the cost of their Full Self-Driving (FSD) to a puny $99 a month! This comes in anticipation of the deployment of FSD v12, a huge leap from previous versions, powered entirely by AI. In another first, Tesla dealers are now mandated to provide FSD demo drives for all new deliveries. Existing owners, rejoice! A one-month free trial of the system is up for grabs (only in North America though, sorry, rest of the world).
In what could be termed revolutionary, a change in Apple's App Store Review Guidelines has led to console and classic game emulators finding their way to the App Store. Pioneering this change, Emu64 XL, a Commodore 64 emulator, and iGBA, a Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color emulator have already raced into the App Store and that too for free. While these emulators need to play nice with content regulations and privacy guidelines, dark clouds of enforcement loom overhead.
Enter Project Red. This facility in Nevada is making headlines by powering a local grid purely with geothermal energy. Here's how: water is pumped miles deep into the ground, warming up courtesy of the Earth's hot core, and then brought back up to power generators. They've borrowed some cool techniques from the oil and gas industry to make the process reliably cheap. This could potentially unlock the use of geothermal power in numerous new locations. Still, wondering why this is a big deal? It's time to dig deep!
Startup, Max Space, is aiming for the stars, literally. They want to launch gigantic habitats into Earth's orbit by the end of this decade. These habitats have been designed smartly to minimize the mass and volume of the payload that needs to be transported to space. The grand reveal? The company plans to launch these habitats using SpaceX's rockets in 2027 and 2030. Their first off-Earth test is scheduled for two years from now.
This PostgreSQL extension could just become your best friend if you're about improving query performance. It supports generic parameters and materialized views and can identify tables and columns obfuscated by views. Time to make friends with it?
Truss, a startup, shared lessons from their exciting journey after releasing several features heavily leveraged by GPT. While they agree that GPT is helpful, they also offered a reality check - it's not going to replace everyone's jobs. So, breathe out, guys! Instead, they noted how it reduces the entry barrier to ML/AI.
With the AI craze surging, relocating to the Bay Area seems an option worth considering. It boasts unparalleled knowledge and risk-culture, ideal for budding founders and techies. But move over Bay Area, other places are catching up fast. Still, the concentration of companies, developers, and investors in the Bay is unbeatable, giving significant impetus to job searches, networking, and career growth.
Exponential growth, beware! The scaling law hypothesis suggests that we're on a cliff-edge with AI systems. Their capabilities are predicted to grow exponentially as we pump in more data and computing power. Dario Amodei, the brain behind GPT-2 and GPT-3, delved into the growth dynamics of AI, its adoption by the society, energy consumption, and a lot more in an enlightening interview not to be missed.
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