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If you haven’t seen the video from Figure’s latest robot yet, you should definitely do that right now. The robot takes care of household tasks like laundry, cleaning, and doing dishes, all autonomously. While it is still quite slow, it is clear that humanoid robots working for or side-by-side humans will become reality very soon.
Just as oil and water need an emulsifier to truly combine, East and West Germany still require active bridging efforts — education, dialogue, and mutual respect — to overcome divisions that persist 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
With this latest OS update featuring the new “Liquid Glass” design language, it becomes apparent that Apple is trying very hard to keep up with the competition while adding layers of visual complexity that ultimately sacrifice the user experience for aesthetic appeal.
Very compelling take on the current state of Apple: “Now, however, Apple is increasingly on the periphery, and I think that, more than anything, is what bums people out: no, Apple may not be a sugar water purveyor, but they are farther than they have been in years from changing the world.”
We need to stop celebrating either burnout or dropout and start celebrating depth.
If you’re working with AI, thinking about AI or just thinking about your future, you should watch Aric Floyd’s YouTube video “We're Not Ready for Superintelligence” on the AI 2027 scenario studio which you can find at ai-2027.com. It is both fascinating and terrifying and should be a topic in schools, in politics and governments around the world.
amazon.deLife 3.0 by Max Tegmark explores the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on humanity. It raises philosophical, ethical, and practical questions about how we can guide AI development responsibly to maximise benefits while minimising risks. Although the book was first published 2017 a lot of its themes are more relevant than ever.
Most companies are failing at AI because they’re adding it to broken processes instead of rethinking everything. Here’s what I learned from stepping back and actually building with AI.
I was a strong and vocal defender of Vanilla CSS for a long time but since I started building more and more apps that need proper visuals I started playing with Tailwind CSS and ended up paying for a plus license. It is that good.
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