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Neuralink’s Human Trial 🧠, Google's Privacy Dilemma 🕵️‍♀️, Atomos Space Up & Running 🚀

This week's TechToks: Neuralink's first human trial, Google's privacy controversy, Atomos Space's first mission, Github trends featuring AI developments, and more!

Game Changers

Neuralink's first human patient, a 29-year-old paralyzed man, has experienced significant life improvements from the brain-chip implant, enabling activities like playing video games solely with his mind, despite acknowledging the technology's imperfections and the need for further development. 2433 votes. Author: /u/SpaceBrigadeVHS

Daily Picks

Atomos Space's first demonstration mission, dubbed Mission-1, faced several challenges including communication issues and rapid spacecraft rotation, which the company was able to largely resolve through software updates and establishing high-bandwidth communications, allowing them to assess spacecraft health and prepare for upcoming propulsion system testing.

Federal investigators ordered Google to disclose information about viewers of certain YouTube videos, a move deemed by privacy experts as unconstitutional and potentially turning innocent viewers into criminal suspects.

Butternut AI is the world's first AI-powered website builder that creates full-fledged, multi-page websites from a single prompt. Simply enter your business name and keywords to get a tailored website that is customizable, fully responsive and has built-in SEO

SEO AI Writer automates blog content creation by analyzing top Google search results, crafting structured outlines, and integrating keywords for optimized posts, along with the ability to generate relevant images.

Devika is an advanced AI software engineer that can understand high-level human instructions, break them down into steps, research relevant information, and write code to achieve the given objective, aiming to revolutionize the way we build software by providing an AI pair programmer.

The gpt-prompt-engineer repository provides a tool that generates, tests and ranks prompts for tasks based on AI models such as GPT-4, GPT-3.5-Turbo, and Claude 3 Opus, after receiving a description of the task and some test cases from the user.

Engineering Blogs

The article describes a machine learning-based approach to optimize real-time communication (RTC) bandwidth estimation, which involves network characterization, offline model learning and parameter tuning, and a hybrid model architecture that combines time series and non-time series data to improve accuracy.