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SpaceX filed an application with the US FCC on December 6 for authorization to equip some of its Starlink satellites with direct-to-cellular hardware. The FCC recently authorized SpaceX to launch 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites before the end of the decade. If the direct-to-cellular hardware is approved, Starlink will be able to provide voice, messaging, and basic web browsing capabilities to mobile devices. SpaceX plans to offer smartphone coverage as soon as 2024.
Apple plans to upgrade and potentially expand its lineup of external displays. It is reportedly working on multiple new monitors with Apple Silicon inside. One of the new monitors is a new version of the Pro Display XDR, which may not be released until after the new Mac Pro as the computer is further along in development than the monitor. The Apple Silicon chips will allow the screens to use less resources from their attached computers.
This video looks inside Helion Energy's facilities. Helion's Trenta fusion generator is a completely novel approach to achieving nuclear fusion. It creates two mirrored rings of plasma on each side of the reactor and fires them at each other sequentially, activating powerful magnets to squeeze and compress the rings. The collision raises the plasma temperature to tens of millions of degrees and creates a fusion reaction, releasing a tremendous amount of energy in the process.
Researchers at the University of Houston claim they have a new vaccine that blocks fentanyl from entering the brain. Rats that received the vaccine during tests could produce anti-fentanyl antibodies that stop the drug's effects and allow it to exit out of the body via the kidneys. The vaccine did not cause any adverse side effects or cross-react with other opioids. The researchers still need FDA approval to begin clinical trials, but they hope that the vaccine could be sold within three to four years.
This article discusses the internals of GitHub Copilot. It looks at a reversed-engineered version of Copilot's codebase, prompt engineering, snippet extraction, model invocation, telemetry, and much more. A link to the code and a tool for exploring the reverse-engineered codebase is available in the article.
Starship is an infinitely customizable prompt for any shell. It is compatible with the shells on most common operating systems. Starship can be as minimal or feature-rich as required.
Secrets-based access control doesn’t scale. Each secret increases risk, and developers hate juggling hundreds of credentials. Companies like Google and Facebook have discovered that identity-based access is the way forward.
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Elon Musk has made a promise that there will be votes about major policy changes in the future. The first vote is on whether Musk will continue as Chief Twit. Musk had only planned to temporarily operate as Twitter's CEO and has said under oath that he would find someone else to run the company. He claims that Twitter is on its way to bankruptcy and that it will need to find a CEO who can keep the company alive.
People will likely use chatbots to look up all types of information in the future. This article discusses how a developer created a chatbot based on their favorite podcast. The chatbot was designed to look through a podcast's content library and answer questions as if it was the podcaster. Being able to turn any collection of text into a chatbot will have significant positive business implications.
This article contains excerpts from an interview with Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, about the things he learned from DALL-E 2 and what the next decade will be like for AI.