John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/john-walker-1949-2024/4305
Scanalyst
John Walker (1949 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we announce Johnβs death on Friday, February 2, 2024. He was born in Maryland, USA to William and Bertha Walker, who preceded him in death. John is survived by his wife Roxie Walker and a brother, Bill Walker of West Virginia.β¦
Bard is now Gemini, and weβre rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced https://blog.google/products/gemini/bard-gemini-advanced-app/
Google
Bard becomes Gemini: Try Ultra 1.0 and a new mobile app today
Bard is now known as Gemini, with a mobile app and an Advanced experience that gives you access to our most capable AI model, Ultra 1.0.
I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner https://willempennings.nl/balancing-cube/
Sora: Creating video from text https://openai.com/sora
Openai
Sora
Turn your ideas into videos with hyperreal motion and sound.
Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/02/magika-ai-powered-fast-and-efficient-file-type-identification.html
Googleblog
Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
Magika code and model are freely available starting today in Github under the Apache2 License.
Think Python, 3rd Edition https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython/
My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder https://mtlynch.io/solo-developer-year-6/
Show HN: htmz β a low power tool for HTML https://leanrada.com/htmz/
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon users https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/cellular-outage-in-us-hits-att-t-mobile-and-verizon-users-downdetector-shows-.html
CNBC
AT&T cellular service restored after daylong outage; cause still unknown
A cellular outage Thursday hit thousands of AT&T users in the United States, disrupting calls, text messages and emergency services in major cities.
The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children https://20y.hu/~slink/journal/xylophone-duplo/
Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere https://ok-robot.github.io/
OK-Robot: What Really Matters in Integrating Open-Knowledge Models for Robotics
OK-Robot is an open framework for zero-shot, natural language pick-and-drop system in arbitrary homes.
Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution https://effectiviology.com/shirky-principle/