Happy birthday to the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore (of "Moore’s Law"). About 60 years ago, he predicted that the number of transistors on computer chips would double roughly every two years. Image: Intel
TECHNOLOGY
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Stanford’s Robotic Boot Reduces Energy Use While Improving Mobility
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Stanford's new robotic boot proves tech isn't just hype.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 3 janvier 2025
It makes you feel 30 pounds lighter, helps you walk 9% faster while using 17% less energy, and adapts to your unique stride.
This isn't just cool tech—it's life-changing mobility for those who need it most.
By choosing… pic.twitter.com/jKM6iKl61RStanford's new robotic boot proves tech isn't just hype. It makes you feel 30 pounds lighter, helps you walk 9% faster while using 17% less energy, and adapts to your unique stride. This isn't just cool tech—it's life-changing mobility for those who need it most. By choosing
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AI dramatically speeds up presentation creation now
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It’s crazy to think how much faster presentations can be with AI now
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MIT’s Toroidal Propeller Design Transforms Drone Noise Reduction
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MIT's breakthrough: A toroidal propeller design that makes drones whisper-quiet.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 3 janvier 2025
With the drone market heading to $54.6B by 2030, this innovation could transform everything from farming to emergency response.
The future of drones might just be a lot quieter.
For those… pic.twitter.com/VtfRTudhNRMIT's breakthrough: A toroidal propeller design that makes drones whisper-quiet. With the drone market heading to $54.6B by 2030, this innovation could transform everything from farming to emergency response. The future of drones might just be a lot quieter. For those
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Pro Phone RAM Limits: 16GB Hardware, 5GB App Constraint
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16gb on the latest pro phones, but the system doesn’t let any app use more than 5gb. haven’t tested this myself yet though. maybe I’ll do that tonight
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Nvidia Gains While Google, Astera Face Pressure
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Astera, Google out, Kopin, Nvidia, in The new year starts with a raft of new recommendations, including dumping pricey Astera Labs, avoiding Google and Uber, snapping up Kopin, and hanging onto Nvidia. https://
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Battery consumption during AI inference remains high but manageable
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it’s still high, but this is only at the time of inference, so if you have a question or two you won’t really see your battery drop in realtime or something like that
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Year-End AI News Timeline and 2025 Outlook
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Happy New Year! After a week offline with family for Christmas in Minnesota, it's finally time to start revving back for 2025. I'll probably write something more reflective later, but here's an EOY timeline I wrote pre-holidays that recaps some of the AI news from the past year:
