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
Uber has finally turned a profit! CEO Dara Khosrowshahi also mentioned that they are developing an AI chatbot for customer service, marketing, and other automated tasks. Rumour is it that Bob Iger might have returned to Disney to sell it to Apple, which would be the deal of a lifetime.
The Line NEOM is a new urban area planned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to be built in its northwestern Tabuk Province. The site is north of the Red Sea, east of Egypt across the Gulf of Aqaba and south of Jordan. The total planned area of NEOM is
AI The AI artist community keeps coming up with amazing images generated in Midjourney. Check out the cover image above (you can view the whole series here) and these 3D text effects: Meta has released Llama 2, their open-source large language model. The release includes model weights and starting code
Threads has passed 100M users in five days since its launch last week, overtaking ChatGPT as the fastest growing app of all time (for comparison, ChatGPT reached 100M users in the first two months, which was a record at the time). It's the dream to have a large
Well the big talk of the week: Meta has launched Threads, their Instagram Twitter competitor and it passed 2 million users in the first 2 hours! I've played around with it on the first day: the UI is nicely done and leveraging your Instagram network is a pretty
AI Toyota has released a generative AI tool for designing cars: 1. Toyota Design AI Toyota (yes that company lagging in EVs somehow cares about AI) released generative AI for car design: pic.twitter.com/W3ve7ppYEA — Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy (@aakashg0) June 27, 2023 Artists have also been sharing
AI news Meta has announced Voicebox, a generative AI model that can help with audio editing, sampling, and styling. It can remove unwanted background audio like car horns or dogs barking, and generate speech in different languages. Introducing Voicebox: The Most Versatile AI for Speech Generation | MetaVoicebox is a generative
NASA has released a new X-plane designed to reduce fuel consumption. Ford and GM have agreed to adopt Tesla’s EV charging connector (as opposed to the CCS standard other manufacturers use), so customers will be able to use Tesla's charging stations starting next year. Tesla has the
Sydney F-Enders and SydCSS Presentations This week, I gave a presentation on Advanced Testing in Playwright at the Sydney F-Enders meetup on Tuesday and What's new in CSS in 2023 at SydCSS on Thursday. Here are my slides. WWDC23 Well the big news of the week of course
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Well, it's only 4 sleeps away from the biggest Apple reveal since over a decade ago: the AR/VR headset! Apple have a nice little teaser AR graphic that you can play with on your iPhone: 0:00/1× And some specs have been leaked: apparently each eye
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Generative AI in Photoshop Photoshop has released some amazing new generative AI features this week! You can now select an area and generate new AI imagery for that area with a text prompt. Three versions are generated and you can pick the best one. The tool can also remove objects
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This week, Apple rolled out Tap to Pay in Australia, with Westpac and Tyro Payments the first payment platforms to offer this feature to business customers. Apple also previewed new iOS 17 accessibility features that include the ability to clone your own voice, aimed at people with early ALS who