🕶️ VR Meetings, ML Data Quality, and Jetpack's Performance Leap
Today’s pick
Microsoft Teams now supports 3D and VR meetings. Microsoft is launching its immersive 3D meetings inside Microsoft Teams today. Microsoft Mesh, the company's mixed reality platform, is coming out of preview and being integrated into Teams to let people gather in virtual spaces with or without a VR headset. By Tom Warren via The Verge
𝕏: Who the FUCK asked for this instead of, you know, actually improving Teams - thot leedurr (@DocDre)
Anomalo's machine learning approach to data quality is growing like gangbusters. When Anomalo’s co-founders left Instacart in 2018, they thought they could put machine learning to work to solve data-quality problems inherent in large datasets. Five years later, the company’s idea is even more relevant as data quality takes center stage with large language models. By Ron Miller via TechCrunch
𝕏: Excited to announce @anomalo_hq's Series B today, led by @SignalFire with participation from @databricks Ventures, @NorwestVP, @FoundationCap, and @TwoSigmaVC. - eshmu (@eshmu)
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What's new in the Jetpack Compose January '24 release. Today, as part of the Compose January ‘24 Bill of Materials, we’re releasing version 1.6 of Jetpack Compose, Android's modern, native UI toolkit that is used by apps such as Threads, Reddit, and Dropbox. This release largely focuses on performance improvements, as we continue to migrate modifiers and improve the efficiency of major parts of our API. By Ben Trengrove via Android Developers Blog
𝕏: Compose 1.6.0 has been released. This is what's new in the Jetpack Compose. - Performance improvement (~20% improvement in scroll performance) - Configuring the stability of external classes - Strong skipping mode - Jaewoong Eum (@github_skydoves)
Why Making Face Computers Cool Isn't Easy. The device, which includes high-resolution displays and sensors that track eye movements and hand gestures, is one of Apple’s most ambitious products. It bills the headset as the beginning of an era of “spatial computing,” which blends data with the physical world to make our lives better. Imagine giving a presentation with digital notes shown in the corner of your eye, for example. By Brian X. Chen via The New York Times
White House science chief signals US-China co-operation on AI safety. The US will work with China on the safety of artificial intelligence systems in the coming months, the White House's top science adviser has said, signalling a rare co-operation between the two powers. Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told the Financial Times that, despite Sino-US trade tensions over AI, the countries would work together to lessen its risks and assess its capabilities. By Madhumita Murgia via Financial Times
𝕏: White House science chief signals US-China co-operation on AI safety “Steps have been taken to engage in that process,” Prabhakar said of future collaboration with China on AI. “We have to try to work [with Beijing].” - Paul Triolo (@pstAsiatech)
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