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https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to…
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it…
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/04/project-liberty-bid-to-buy-tik-tok-protect-user-rights/ It’s very hard to tell who has the upper hand on this. Did TikTok actively seek the extension? Or US avoiding a Gen Z revolt? Sure, 170m users in…
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/18/tech/google-wiz-acquisition/index.html Google is still very much an advertising company, only around 20% by revenue from non-ads related business. They are good with indexing data. Should you really trust them with…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other…
https://decrypt.co/303263/former-sec-chair-gary-gensler-to-go-back-to-school-to-teach-ai Sure, he had the power to slow down crypto adoption at the SEC. But ultimately he failed. When he “lost” to BlackRock and others for the crypto ETFs applications,…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27zwp7jpxo Not saying that BBC shouldn’t care about the AI summary showing false “information”. In the ideal world, we want all automated summaries to be accurate too, to take it…
https://a16z.com/llmflation-llm-inference-cost Since the launch of GPT-3 in November 2021, the cost of LLM inference has plummeted by a factor of 1,000, with predictions suggesting a continued decrease of approximately 10x…
You probably don’t need to know how the maths behind AI works, but it is a good idea to know that current “generation” (or buzz) of AI is mainly based…
https://medium.com/@eplt/how-to-upgrade-to-ios-15-from-betas-or-rc-version-3054cb07e561 Reminder, if you have been using iOS 18 beta, it’s time to switch off the Beta update toggle before the GM version. Usually, GM will be the final released…
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/apple-says-its-ai-models-were-trained-on-googles-custom-chips-.html Another reminder that Nvidia is not the only player for AI chips even if they are the best. A little surprised that Apple didn’t have their M2 Ultra farm…
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-says-whatsapp-has-100-million-daily-active-users-in-the-u-s/ When many countries can say that their default chat app is Whatsapp, that’s not true in America. Very odd.