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T-Mobile recently announced price hikes on older smartphone plans, shocking customers who believed in the Un-contract promise made back in 2017. The promise stated that only customers could decide to change what they paid, and if T-Mobile increased prices, they would cover the final month’s bill if customers chose to cancel within 60 days. Despite […]
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The author introduces a collaborative ASCII drawing project using Telnet, allowing users to draw on a shared canvas by connecting to `telnet bram.town`. They provide details on user input with xterm terminals and how to render output. The author shares their experience of debugging and the importance of setting certain parameters correctly to prevent client […]
Caltech’s Edward C. Stone, a giant in space physics and planetary astronomy, passed away at 88 after six decades at Caltech. Best known for leading NASA’s Voyager project for 50 years, Stone led the twin spacecraft to explore the outer planets and interstellar space. His legacy includes overseeing 21 JPL missions, the Mars Pathfinder, and […]
A $1,000,000+ competition has been launched to push forward progress in open artificial general intelligence (AGI). Current AI systems such as LLMs excel at memorization but lack the ability to truly reason or adapt to novel situations. The ARC-AGI evaluation is a groundbreaking measure of general intelligence, challenging even the most advanced AI systems. Despite […]
Summary: Learn about upgrading password-based accounts to passkeys in this video series. Discover the benefits of improved security and ease of sign-in, along with new features for credential manager apps. Chapters cover automatic passkey upgrades, shipping and deploying passkey support, improvements for credential managers, and updating appearance in the new Passwords app. Surprising content includes […]
Lynn Conway, an American computer scientist and electrical engineer, was known for her contributions to the Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution. She invented dynamic instruction handling and worked at IBM in the 1960s. She later joined Xerox PARC and DARPA, where she helped develop new technologies. Conway faced challenges as a transgender woman, which led […]
Founders in Silicon Valley often justify their significantly larger equity stakes compared to early employees by citing the risk they took in starting a company. However, a lesser-known practice called founder liquidity allows founders to sell shares during new funding rounds to secure financial stability while employees remain all-in. This lack of transparency leads to […]
The author spent a month exploring how to create better workflows that combine human intuition with machine intelligence, focusing on the significance of designing better notations for understanding ourselves, the world, and our place in it. The post delves into the diversity of notations, including writing systems, mathematical notation, dance notation, and music notation. The […]
Rare Earths Norway has discovered Europe’s largest rare earth elements deposit, challenging China’s control over the market. With 8.8 million metric tons of total rare earth oxides, this deposit in Norway could play a crucial role in the clean energy transition. The company hopes to contribute to the EU’s goal of extracting 10% of its […]
The content discusses NVIDIA GPUs and their programming models, focusing on SIMT, SIMD, and SMT. The SIMT model is a hybrid between vector processing and hardware threading, offering both flexibility and efficiency. SIMT is a more flexible version of SIMD, with SMT being even more flexible, but less efficient. The content highlights the benefits and […]