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In today's Techpresso:
🤖 Apple explores making personal robots
💰 Google could soon start charging a fee for AI-powered search results
⚛ Microsoft says it has developed the most error-free quantum solution yet
🖼 ChatGPT now lets you edit AI images created in DALL-E
📸 Scientists complete world’s biggest camera for ‘greatest movie of all time’
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Apple explores making personal robotsLINK
Apple is exploring personal robotics, with preliminary projects including a mobile robot and a table-top robotic device, amid searching for new revenue streams.
The company's switch to robotics comes after abandoning an electric vehicle project, with efforts focused within its hardware engineering and AI divisions.
Despite these developments, Apple's entry into the robotics market has received a mild market reaction, and the company has yet to officially commit to launching these products.
💰 Google could soon start charging a fee for AI-powered search resultsLINK
Google is considering a premium search service that leverages generative AI, potentially transforming the search engine landscape.
The premium AI-powered search could be incorporated into Google's existing subscription services, offering advanced AI capabilities possibly through Google One or Workspace.
Google's exploration into AI-assisted search aims to find a balance between leveraging new technology and maintaining its substantial ad revenue, with normal search remaining free and ad-supported.
⚛ Microsoft says it has developed the most error-free quantum solution yetLINK
Microsoft and Quantinuum announced they have developed the most error-free quantum computing system to date, capable of running over 14,000 error-free experiments.
The new system combines physical qubits into virtual ones for improved error diagnostics and correction, achieving an error rate 800 times better than using physical qubits alone.
This advancement could lead to "Level 2 Resilient" quantum computing, promising practical applications and the eventual goal of tackling critical issues like climate change and drug research.
🖼 ChatGPT now lets you edit AI images created in DALL-ELINK
OpenAI's DALL-E now includes image editing tools within ChatGPT on web and mobile platforms, and introduces preset style suggestions for image creation inspiration.
DALL-E 3 has been integrated with ChatGPT, allowing users to easily describe what they want in an image without crafting a detailed prompt themselves.
To address concerns about AI-generated image trustworthiness, DALL-E 3 has started adding visible watermarks and metadata to images, though these measures can be circumvented.
📸 Scientists complete world’s biggest camera for ‘greatest movie of all time’LINK
Scientists have completed the world's biggest camera, the 3,200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera, after two decades of work.
The LSST Camera, weighing 3 metric tons and featuring a 1.57 meter lens, will be used atop a telescope in Chile to explore the universe, including searching for dark matter.
This camera is anticipated to produce "the greatest movie of all time" and the most detailed map of the night sky ever assembled, enabling new insights into cosmic mysteries.
Other news you might like
Google’s new Gemini-powered AI feature for Gmail has leaked.LINK
Meta’s AI image generator struggles to create images of couples of different races.LINK
AWS plans hundreds of job cuts as Amazon downsizing continues.LINK
OpenAI's Sora just made its first music video and it's like a psychedelic trip.LINK
X begins to grant users blue checkmarks based on the number of premium followers they have.LINK
The FCC will vote to restore net neutrality later this month.LINK
Latest research and tools
LLocalSearch: a locally running search aggregator that leverages multiple Language Learning Models (LLMs) to answer questions directly on a user's machine without requiring external API keys, featuring a web interface and easy deployment.LINK
Logik: an open-source FPGA toolchain by Zero ASIC that automates the conversion of RTL to bits through synthesis, placement, routing, bitstream generation, and analysis, with support for a wide range of features comparable to commercial toolchains, installable via PyPi.LINK
SableDb: a key-value NoSQL database that leverages RocksDB for storage and supports the Redis protocol, aiming to offer lower memory costs and higher capacity than Redis, with features like Redis-compatible access, support for up to 64K databases, asynchronous replication, and TLS connectivity, developed in Rust and compatible with Linux, macOS, and Windows through the use of WSL2.LINK
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