Nvidia announced a personal AI supercomputer called Digits at CES. It
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BIG TECH & STARTUPS

NVIDIA ANNOUNCES $3,000 PERSONAL AI SUPERCOMPUTER CALLED DIGITS (3
MINUTE READ) [5]

Nvidia announced a personal AI supercomputer called Digits at CES. It
can handle AI models with up to 200 billion parameters. Similar in
form to a Mac Mini, Digits has a starting price of $3,000. Each system
comes equipped with 128GB of unified, coherent memory. Two systems can
be linked together to handle models with up to 405 billion parameters.


LIVE UPDATES CES 2025: NVIDIA, SAMSUNG, SONY, TOYOTA REVEALS, PLUS
MORE (WEBSITE) [6]

CES 2025 is currently being held in Las Vegas. This page contains
live updates from the annual consumer tech conference. AI will likely
be the focal point of most companies' presentations - AI-powered
devices are expected to be covered extensively through the event.
Robotics and transportation are also core topics at CES.

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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

LG JUST UNVEILED THE WORLD'S FIRST BENDABLE GAMING MONITOR (2 MINUTE
READ) [7]

The LG UltraGear GX9 45GX990A is a bendable gaming monitor with an
ultra-high 5K2K resolution that can accurately depict rich blacks,
vibrant colors, and dynamic brightness levels with pinpoint accuracy.
It can curve its 45-inch body to 900R curvature, providing a level of
immersion that is rarely offered by more conventional monitors. The
screen has the performance specs to back up its stylish looks. LG has
not released the price or commercial release date for the screen.

IN 2025, PEOPLE WILL TRY LIVING IN THIS UNDERWATER HABITAT (7 MINUTE
READ) [8]

Ocean exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest
to enable scientists to live on the sea floor at depths of up to 200
meters. It is currently developing and testing a small modular habitat
called Vanguard that is capable of housing up to three divers for up
to a week or so. Vanguard is a steppingstone to a more permanent
modular habitat system called Sentinel set to launch in 2027. Deep is
aiming for a permanent human presence in the ocean by 2030. Its plans
are possible thanks to an advanced 3D printing-welding approach that
can print these large habitation structures.

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PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

HOW I PROGRAM WITH LLMS (28 MINUTE READ) [9]

This post contains a summary of a developer's personal experiences
using generative models while programming over the last year. The
developer currently uses large language models regularly while
programming and considers their benefits a net-positive on their
productivity. They discovered some often-repeated steps that can be
automated and are currently working with a team to build them into a
tool specifically for Go programming.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF GHOSTTY (6 MINUTE READ) [10]

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator that uses
platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. It contains many modern
opt-in features that can improve the terminal experience. This article
provides a review of Ghostty from a user's point of view. Overall,
Ghostty improved the reviewer's setup - while setup took some time, it
wasn't a big deal.

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MISCELLANEOUS

MICROSOFT IS USING BING TO TRICK PEOPLE INTO THINKING THEY'RE ON
GOOGLE (3 MINUTE READ) [11]

Searching for Google on Bing (without signing in) takes users to a
page that looks a lot like Google. It's a clear attempt from Microsoft
to make Bing look like Google for this specific search query. Other
search results return without the special interface. Bing still
surfaces search results for Google underneath the spoofed Google UI.
Microsoft has used similar tactics over the years to convince people
to switch to its products.

DELL ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW BRANDING WITH DELL, DELL PRO, AND DELL PRO MAX
LAPTOPS (5 MINUTE READ) [12]

Dell is rebranding its laptop and desktop lines for 2025. It has just
dropped its longtime model names for more simplified nomenclature.
Dell's laptop and PC series will now be simply labeled as Dell, Dell
Pro, and Dell Pro Max, with base, Plus, and Premium versions of each.
The Dell, Dell Plus, and Dell Premium series will be the models
previously labeled as either Inspiron or XPS, the Dell Pro series
replaces the Latitude line, and the Dell Pro Max will replace the
Precision workstation line.

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QUICK LINKS

THE NON-BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO RAG (SPONSOR) [13]

RAG is more than simple text retrieval. Learn about the 5 layers of
RAG architecture, model evaluation, data management, and more. Read
the guide by Elastic [13]

HOW UBER AND LYFT ARE GEARING UP FOR THE ROBOTAXI REVOLUTION (8
MINUTE READ) [14]

Uber and Lyft are preparing to bring driverless taxis to several
cities in the US this year.

AMERICA'S FIRST BIRD FLU DEATH REPORTED IN LOUISIANA (4 MINUTE READ)
[15]

The person was over 65 and reportedly had underlying medical
conditions - they were hospitalized with the flu after exposure to a
backyard flock of birds and wild birds.

META'S ZUCKERBERG ADDS UFC'S DANA WHITE, TWO OTHERS TO BOARD (3
MINUTE READ) [16]

Meta has added UFC CEO Dana White, investor and former Microsoft
executive Charlie Songhurst, and CEO of Exor NV John Elkann to its
board.

WHO WOULD HAVE WON THE SIMON-EHRLICH BET OVER DIFFERENT DECADES, AND
WHAT DO LONG-TERM PRICES TELL US ABOUT RESOURCE SCARCITY? (11 MINUTE
READ) [17]

We produce far more materials than we did in the past, yet prices
have barely changed, which suggests that we're not close to running
out of these materials any time soon.

THEY SQUANDERED THE HOLY GRAIL (20 MINUTE READ) [18]

Apple made the holy grail of remotely attested trusted compute, but
its AI is much worse than integrations made with Ollama on the same
device, which would be just as private.

THIS IS NOT YOUR LAST JOB (4 MINUTE READ) [19]

People who like to learn and grow will change their roles many times throughout their lifetimes.

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