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Nuclear Fusion Propulsion Drive 🚀, AI in Healthcare Concerns 🏥, and iPhone Holograms 🔮
Today's TechToks: RocketStar revolutionizing space travel, generative AI stirring debate in healthcare, AngeList's Co-Founder latest venture Airchat, trending GitHub repositories, and more!
🤯 Game Changers
The most impactful articles of the day
RocketStar successfully demonstrated its fusion-enhanced pulsed plasma propulsion drive, which could potentially reduce transit times to Mars from weeks to days, and the company is preparing for upcoming test flights to further validate the technology. |
🧐 Daily Picks
Curated picks and most shared articles on techtok.today
Naval Ravikant's new social app Airchat focuses on audio-based communication rather than text, aiming to foster more natural human interaction, with features like asynchronous audio posts and transcription, while facing challenges around content moderation and monetization.
The growing use of generative AI in healthcare raises concerns among both professionals and patients about its readiness, limitations, and potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes and biases in medical diagnosis and treatment.
A proposed technique for computer-generated holography using incoherent light from a mobile phone screen, achieving three-dimensional color image reproduction through a cascade of holograms solved via an inverse problem, demonstrated with an iPhone and a spatial light modulator.
Apple removes popular Game Boy emulator iGBA from its App Store due to concerns over spam and copyright violations, disappointing users who relied on the app to play classic games on their iOS devices.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
Reader is a tool that converts any URL to an LLM-friendly input, allowing for improved output from your language models and RAG systems, with a simple prefix of https://r.jina.ai/.
Parler-TTS, an open-source text-to-speech model provides a fully open-source text-to-speech model capable of generating high-quality speech in the style of a given speaker, based on Lyth and King's paper, with a lightweight 600M parameter model released as Parler-TTS Mini v0.1, trained on 10.5K hours of audio data.
The STORM system assists in writing Wikipedia-like articles from scratch using large language models and Internet search, breaking down the process into a pre-writing stage for research and outline generation, and a writing stage for article generation and polishing.
📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt
AutoRepurpose is a tool to make it supa easy to repurpose YouTube videos and grow your social media 10x faster. Currently, we convert YouTube videos into Twitter threads and LinkedIn posts. Support for newsletters is coming soon.
Wasting time watching lengthy YouTube videos and wish there was a quicker way to understand your content? Try YouTube Video Summarizer powered by ChatGPT! This free tool that allows you to generate concise summaries of any YouTube video effortlessly.
Today from Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
Amazon Bedrock's knowledge bases now support custom prompts and setting a maximum number of retrieved results for the RetrieveAndGenerate API, aiding in generation of relevant, context-specific responses without needing to retrain foundation models. |