Tesla Cybercab announced: Elon Musk's robotaxi is finally here (3 minute read)
Tesla has unveiled the Cybercab, a new electric vehicle dedicated to self-driving that lacks a steering wheel or pedals. It will need approval from regulators before going into production. The robotaxi features a futuristic design with doors that open upward and a small cabin with only enough space for two passengers. It doesn't have a charging plug - the vehicle will use inductive charging to regain power wirelessly. Tesla plans to have the Cybercab in production by 2026, although that could be delayed until 2027.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Can Apple Watch measure blood pressure? Not yet — but here's how the science would work. (5 minute read)
This post explains the science behind blood pressure detection on the wrist, past medical literature on using deep neural networks to glean signals from consumer wearables, likely limitations of wrist-based blood pressure sensors, and how doctors and patients can incorporate the technology into medical practice. 120 million people in the US have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, but only 23% have it under control. A continuous blood pressure monitor could help give real-time feedback on dietary choices and help control the condition, which in turn could lower heart attack rates.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Nixiesearch (GitHub Repo)
Nixiesearch is a hybrid search engine that can learn the intent of a visitor by fine-tuning data. Unlike other vector search engines, it supports facets, rich filtering, sorting, and autocomplete. Nixiesearch will not return hallucinated responses. It doesn't support sharding or analytical queries over deeply-nested documents. The project is focused on consumer-facing search.
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Forking is Beautiful (1 minute read)
FreeWP is a fork of WordPress started by a former WordPress community member. The last decent fork attempt for WordPress was ClassicPress in 2018, which started over disagreements about Gutenberg being integrated into core. WordPress itself started as a fork of the b2/cafelog project. Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, strongly encourages anyone who disagrees with the direction WordPress is headed in to join the FreeWP fork.
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Generative AI's Act o1 (22 minute read)
Research in AI is progressing from 'thinking fast' to 'thinking slow', unlocking a new cohort of agentic applications. The focus is now shifting to the development and scaling of the reasoning layer, which could endow AI systems with deliberate reasoning, problem-solving, and cognitive operations at inference time that go beyond rapid pattern matching. This essay explores how the consolidation of the foundational LLM layer has set the stage for the race to scale higher-order reasoning and agentic capabilities, and discusses a new generation of killer apps with novel cognitive architectures and user interfaces.
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The FBI secretly created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes (2 minute read)
The FBI created an Ethereum-based token called NexFundAI as part of an investigation into price manipulation in crypto markets. The investigation resulted in the SEC charging three market makers and nine people for allegedly engaging in schemes to boost the prices of certain crypto assets and the DOJ charging 18 people and entities for widespread fraud and manipulation in crypto markets. The DOJ reportedly secured $25 million from fraudulent proceeds that will be returned to investors.
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