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Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages that recommend tags to help you find closely related subjects. The experiments are only available to 50% … Read more

Meta Connect 2024 kicks off today at 10 a.m. PT, with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The developer event is set to focus on Meta’s XR (VR and AR) platforms, the metaverse, and the Facebook parent’s open source generative AI platform, Llama. Some new hardware, including the Meta Quest 4, updates to the Meta … Read more

The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle to realizing blockchain’s full potential, web3 proponents argue, is that decentralized services are incredibly hard to build. Tomasz Tunguz, best known for his popular startup … Read more

Anyone who works at a computer for eight-plus hours a day will likely know that the amount of tools and “context switching” required to stay productive can be overwhelming. “Where did I put that file?” “How do I manage all my Bluetooth devices?” “How quickly can I switch from my to-do list, to my GitHub, … Read more

The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have no moat” — and AI2 showed that today with the release of Molmo, a multimodal AI … Read more

Supabase, the open source developer platform and Postgres database service that started out as an alternative to Google’s Firebase, on Wednesday announced that it has raised an $80 million Series C round led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures. With this, Supabase has now raised a total of $196 million, including a Series B round … Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, launching September 26th, is Princess Zelda’s first standalone adventure. Her debut solo outing does an excellent job of establishing Zelda as a protagonist unique and separate from that green guy. But the game’s sparse environments, formulaic dungeons, and simplistic platforming and puzzles ultimately swallow her up, making Zelda … Read more

The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy. But I have been puzzled for some time by Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and star witness of the FTX trial. Now, after her sentencing, I believe what she did is weirder and perhaps sadder. … Read more

Radian Aerospace has moved one step closer to achieving the “holy grail” of spaceflight: a reusable space plane that can take-off from an airfield and land on a runway like a conventional airplane. The startup just announced completion of a series of ground tests in Abu Dhabi earlier this summer.  The tests were completed with … Read more

“Heartstopper” Season 3: Joe Locke and Kit Connor discuss teenage vulnerability, eating disorders, and the art of saying “hi!” Source link