It's been a while since I did a tech roundup! A lot has been announced in the way of AI—let's dive in. Anthropic has released updates, including a "computer use" mode that will control your computer with AI, allowing you to automate cumbersome
An emerging trend that I think is as exciting as AI and crypto is local-first development. The general idea is that apps should be able to work offline, support realtime collaboration easily (e.g. editing the same document in Google Docs) when online, and that users should be able to
Apple's CloudKit framework offers a secure way to store app data and make it available to all of a user's Apple devices, tied to their Apple account. I was looking into it recently, and I noticed that they also have the ability to use it on
We were building a page that used query parameters to filter a list of items. I'll use a generic example for this post: let's say we have a Next.js SSR local news website where we have two views that display different lists of articles using
OpenAI introduces GPT Store At OpenAI's first developer conference, Sam Altman announced a way to create custom AI bots and share them on the OpenAI platform. They also announced a whole range of new features, and what better way to summarise it than by using their own tool?
Here's a PDF copy of my slides from my talk "What's new in CSS in 2023" at Web Directions Summit.
You can now create AI avatars for training videos with D-ID. But these are not your average 3D avatars from Meta or Apple. They look photorealistic. Welcome to a new (uncanny?) world of mandatory training videos! AI researchers have come up with a novel approach for content creators to battle
AI OpenAI will host its first developer conference on 6 November. And startups in incubator Y Combinator's program have presented their ideas: 5 neat AI startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2023 batch | TechCrunchIt’s Y Combinator Demo Day for companies in the incubator’s Summer 2023 cohort.
Apple's new iPhone launch event is scheduled for the 13th September, where they're expected to release a new iPhone 15 with a USB-C port and a new Apple watch. They may also switch to titanium for the shell for both. Apple EventsWatch the latest Apple event
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel: There is now a reverse image lookup that uses facial recognition to find all images of a person publicly on the web: Possibly the most disturbing AI website on the internet. Upload a photo of a person, and AI will find ALL of the
AI Google Chrome will summarize entire articles for you with built-in generative AIThe AI-powered notes in Chrome are launching first on Android and iOS.The Verge 🔴 Finally! NVIDIA has finally made the code for Neuralangelo public! It has the ability to transform any video into a highly detailed 3D environment,
An AI-generated deep fake has been making the rounds—I think it's pretty convincing: [NEW] - Joshua Avatar 2.0 🤖✨. Both of these video clips were 100% AI-generated, featuring my own avatar and voice clone. 🎙️🎥 We've made massive enhancements to our life-style avatar's video