Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users. 

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TLDR 2023-04-18

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Big Tech & Startups

iOS 17 to Support App Sideloading to Comply With European Regulations (1 minute read)

iPhone users will be able to download apps outside of the official App Store in iOS 17. The change will mean that developers will no longer have to pay Apple's 15-30% fees. The EU's Digital Markets Act requires gatekeeper companies to open up their services and platforms to other companies and developers. The law will have a big impact on Apple's platforms. Apple has previously claimed that sideloading apps will create privacy and security issues for users. The company must comply with the new law or risk fines of as much as 20% of its global revenue.
Apple finally launches high-yield Apple Savings account (2 minute read)

Apple Savings is now available to Apple Card users. The service can be used to route Daily Cash rewards into a new 4.15% high-yield savings account. It will allow users to spend, send, and save Daily Cash directly from one place. The 4.15% APY rate is more than 10 times the national average. There are no fees, minimum deposits, or minimum balance requirements to use Apple Savings. Apple Savings is serviced by Goldman Sachs.
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Science & Futuristic Technology

OpenAI’s CEO Says the Age of Giant AI Models Is Already Over (3 minute read)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and that further progress will not come from making models bigger. There are diminishing returns on scaling up model size and physical limits on how many data centers the company can build and maintain. It is unclear what research strategies or techniques OpenAI will use instead for its next-generation models. New model designs, architectures, and further tuning based on human feedback are promising directions that many researchers are already exploring.
The Future of Fertility (35 minute read)

Some scientists believe that sex may no longer be the method by which most people will make babies within the next few decades. While life expectancy has increased over the century, the age at which women lose their fertility has stayed the same. As populations are aging and fewer people are having children at a young age, most countries can no longer take a passive approach to fertility issues. This article takes a deep look at a technology called in-vitro gametogenesis which can create gametes outside of the body using non-reproductive cells.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

Pretty TypeScript Errors (GitHub Repo)

Pretty TypeScript Errors is an extension for VSCode that makes complex TypeScript errors more human-readable and easier to understand. It uses visual features, syntax highlighting, and buttons to direct users to relevant information. Pretty TypeScript Errors supports Node and Deno TypeScript error reporters, JSDoc type errors, and errors in various other file types.
RedPajama-Data (GitHub Repo)

This repository contains a reproducible data recipe for RedPajama data. It can be used to recreate the LLaMA training dataset. The repository contains seven datasets with over 1.2 trillion tokens altogether. All pre-processing scripts and guidelines are provided. A dashboard for exploring subsets of the data is available.
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Miscellaneous

AI, NIL, and Zero Trust Authenticity (14 minute read)

AI technology can now create convincing copies of people's voices and music. This article explores the value of music when anyone can just use someone else's voice. Stars in the future may be able to license their voice and likenesses for people to use in their creations. The value in many songs is that it comes from the artist - it's not all about the music. Keeping track of user-generated content will be a major issue for platforms like YouTube in the coming years.
FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony (3 minute read)

The Free Software Foundation says that Google's decision to remove support for JPEG XL is a sign of the disturbing amount of control the company has over browsers and the web. JPEG XL was introduced as an experimental feature in Chrome version 91 and removed in version 110. Widespread adoption of the format could have resulted in an estimated 25-30% reduction in global bandwidth, but many companies didn't want to adopt it as they had their own standards they wanted to use.
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Quick Links

What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter? (3 minute read)

Protocols are a common language that computers can use to communicate.
iSIM vs eSIM vs SIM: The constantly shrinking ways carriers ID your phone (10 minute read)

A look at the history of SIM cards, how they evolved into eSIMs, and upcoming iSIM technologies.
Adobe teases generative AI video tools (2 minute read)

Adobe has announced plans to add AI video synthesis tools to Premiere Pro and After Effects.
Alien Artefacts (2 minute read)

Alien artifacts are parts of the software ecosystem that are well documented and tested and perform important tasks but are hard to change due to the complexities of the problems they are designed to solve.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns society to brace for impact of A.I. acceleration, says ‘it’s not for a company to decide' (4 minute read)

Sundar Pichai says that every product of every company will be impacted by AI.
SpaceX scrubs first launch attempt of its Starship launch system (3 minute read)

SpaceX canceled Monday's Starship launch attempt 10 minutes before liftoff due to a stuck pressurization valve.

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