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Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2

Plus: Nvidia’s newest chips are designed to run AI at home

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January 09, 2024

In Today’s Edition 

  • Waymo’s driverless cars are finally ready for the highway 

  • Carta Is Accused Of Unethical Tactics By Linear (5 minute read)

  • Nvidia’s newest chips are designed to run AI at home

  • Tiger Woods ends Nike partnership after 27 years

  • From LG to samsung, transparent LED displays that project films on glass shake up CES 2024 (3 minute read)

  • Scientists restore vision in mice, achieve 170-fold gene editing boost

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Waymo’s driverless cars are finally ready for the highway 

Waymo's fully driverless vehicles will soon start carrying passengers to and from their destinations on Phoenix's freeways. The company will start by offering driverless rides to just employees and their friends before opening up the service to other paying passengers. Waymo will use the data and feedback collected from these passengers to improve the service as it increases the number of miles it drives on highways. Using highways will allow Waymo to provide faster routes, especially for customers traveling to Phoenix's airports.

Carta, a software company for managing cap tables, faces accusations of misusing sensitive startup information for its own goals, including unauthorized outreach for secondary share sales. Unfortunately, Carta CEO Henry Ward's apology hasn't resolved trust issues, leading some customers to consider switching platforms.

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Nvidia is playing up its strength in consumer GPUs for so-called “local” AI that can run on a PC or laptop from home or an office. These chips have long been Nvidia’s bread and butter, aimed at running video games, but the company says this year’s graphics cards have been improved with an eye toward running AI models without sending information back to the cloud. The new chip can be used to generate images on Adobe Photoshop’s Firefly generator or to remove backgrounds in video calls, or even to make games that use AI to generate dialogue.

Mark Steinberg, Tiger Woods’ longtime agent, told CNBC that the golfer made a business decision to not renew with Nike. It’s not clear where Woods’ next sponsorship home will be. It’s not clear where Woods’ next sponsorship home will be.

📱Tech Nuts

Apple's Vision Pro headset will be available beginning on Friday, February 2 at all US Apple store locations and the US Apple Store online. Pre-orders for the device will begin on Friday, January 19. More than 1 million apps across iOS and iPadOS will work automatically on the Vision Pro since visionOS leverages existing developer frameworks. The Vision Pro will be available starting at $3,499 with 256GB of storage.

From LG to samsung, transparent LED displays that project films on glass shake up CES 2024 (3 minute read)

LG and Samsung have unveiled transparent LED displays that project movies and images on glass-like holograms. LG's Signature OLED TV has a single see-through glass display that uses wireless AV transmission and reception technology to eliminate all kinds of wires other than the power source around the transparent screen. Samsung's transparent MICRO LED display can animate motionless surroundings and objects. Pictures and videos of both displays are available in the article.

🎁Miscellaneous

Scientists at MIT and Harvard have designed tiny virus-like particles that can carry prime editors into mouse cells with a high success rate to correct a genetic disorder. The technique improves the editing process by 170 times in human cells. It was able to correct genetic mistakes and restore vision when tested on mice with genetic eye problems without creating any unintended changes.

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The world's first stock market crash, the South Sea Bubble, occurred in 1720, involving speculation on the trading of shares of the South Sea Company

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