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Airbnb's Icons allow you to drift off in the ‘Up' house or rest in Prince's ‘Purple Rain' mansion (4 minute read)
Airbnb's Icons is a new collection of experiences hosted by big names in music, film, television, arts, sports, and more. Current entertainment-focused Icons include a floating replica of the house from 'Up', a night in a VIP lounge with Kevin Hart, and a living room performance from Doja Cat. The experiences are all priced at under $100 per guest. Only a limited number of requests will be selected for each experience via a lottery. Airbnb also rolled out other new features this week, including the ability for groups of guests to more easily book trips together.
May 01 | AI
Meta Releases ExecuTorch Framework for LLM on Edge Devices (4 minute read)
Meta's ExecuTorch Framework is a post-training quantization toolkit that enables running Llama models on various iPhone and Galaxy devices. It is able to get as much as 11 tokens per second on mobile phones running 7B sized language models.
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May 01 | Design
Bumble's app redesign lets women automate conversation starters (1 minute read)
Bumble's updated app introduces the "Opening Move" feature, designed to help women initiate conversations quickly with prewritten prompts or custom messages that the app sends to all matches. The refresh includes "dating intention" badges and profile enhancements, which aim to foster better match insights.
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