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Dec 7, 2023

Brace for Impact, Here Comes Personalized AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Run natively on edge devices, personalized AI assistants will get wild, and weird, soon.

Dec 7, 2023

SpaceX’s next Starship launch could feature key refueling test

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX may aim to conduct a propellant-transfer demonstration on Starship’s third flight.

Dec 7, 2023

A look inside the United States’ first-ever certified “Blue Zone” located in Minnesota

Posted by in categories: education, life extension

ALBERT LEA, Minnesota (WCCO) — Living to 100 may seem like a major feat, but there are communities around the world where it’s common — they’re called “Blue Zones.”

Minnesota native Dan Buettner is one of the foremost experts on how they work. Buettner’s new Netflix documentary and New York Times bestsellers reveal the secret recipe to longevity.

Dec 7, 2023

There will be a point where we solve aging — this decade is that moment in time

Posted by in categories: life extension, Peter Diamandis

XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis on the biggest prize the world has ever seen – and why a successful outcome will mean we’ll all be winners.

Dec 7, 2023

Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default

Posted by in category: encryption

Years after Mark Zuckerberg said encrypted chats were coming to Messenger, it’s finally being enabled by default.

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger, finally fulfilling a promise that’s been in the works for quite awhile.


The switch to default has been in the works for a long time.

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Dec 7, 2023

Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Google has been an ‘AI-first company’ for nearly a decade.


Google let OpenAI take the lead in the AI race — now, it’s mounting a comeback.

Dec 7, 2023

Google’s Bard chatbot is getting way better thanks to Gemini

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Google’s chatbot is the best place to try out its new supposedly state-of-the-art model — can it catch up to ChatGPT?

While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever, Google’s Bard has been something of an afterthought.


Is this the moment Bard finally catches up to ChatGPT?

Dec 7, 2023

McDonald’s will use Google AI to make sure your fries are fresh, or something?

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

The fast food company says it will be applying generative AI to its operations starting in 2024.

McDonald’s is partnering with Google to deploy generative AI beginning in 2024, when “thousands” of stores will get hardware and software upgrades.


AI is on its way to a drive-through near you.

Dec 7, 2023

Apple joins AI fray with release of model framework

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Apple’s machine learning research team quietly releases a framework called MLX to build foundation models.


Apple released MLX, a framework to build AI models.

Dec 7, 2023

How AI assistants are already changing the way code gets made

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.

Two weeks into the coding class he was teaching at Duke University in North Carolina this spring, Noah Gift told his students to throw out the course materials he’d given them.