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TikTok data dilemma 📊, Climate cost of outdoor time ⛅, Gmail's 20-year journey 📧
Today's TechToks: MIT's alarming climate tool, TikTok's data controversy, Gmail's 20-year journey, step-by-step tech building repo, new Product Hunts goodies and more!
Daily Picks
The article discusses a new MIT tool that shows climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080, with other regions also experiencing significant losses in outdoor days due to rising temperatures, while some areas may see gains. |
The article describes enhancements to the llamafile project, significantly improving its performance on CPUs for processing prompts/images with newly written matrix multiplication kernels, achieving speedups of 30% to 500% on various hardware including ARMv8.2+, Intel, and AVX512 architectures. |
Gmail, launched 20 years ago, revolutionized email by offering unprecedented storage space, transforming the way people perceived and used email, and laying the foundation for Google's expansion beyond its search engine dominance. |
TikTok maintains that users control the data that the company collects and are aware of their data being collected through their agreement to the end user agreement but concerns have been raised about the potential risks including misinformation, disinformation, espionage, and large-scale data surveillance. |
Salieri’s Multiverse.ai is an AI-powered sandbox that transforms your ideas into multi-agent, interactive, and illustrated adventures. Craft and share captivating narratives with ease, blending creativity with cutting-edge technology. |
LeadGenSheet is an AI Google Sheet Add-on for startups to find leads, contacts, web info, and send mass emails from Google Sheet. It is the simplest tool for lead generation, enrichment, qualification, and email automation. Add-on: https://bit.ly/leadgenai |
Trending Repos
This repository is a collection of step-by-step guides for building various technologies from scratch, including 3D renderers, augmented reality apps, BitTorrent clients, blockchains/cryptocurrencies, and many other software systems. |
This repository contains the code for AniPortrait, a framework for generating high-quality animation driven by audio and a reference portrait image, as well as face reenactment capabilities. |
Engineering Blogs
The article discusses how to fine-tune the Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 model using Amazon Bedrock model customization, which allows users to adapt the model to unique characteristics in custom datasets and generate personalized images, while ensuring data privacy and network security. |