On revient de vacances en force avec encore un gros rachat d’Amazon, des nouvelles excitantes à propos de l’IA et des infrastructures interessantes… ou pas !

Perso

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ 

News

• Amazon to Buy Roomba-Maker IRobot for $1.65B / Build With Matter | Smart Home Device Solution
• Climate-Friendly Ethereum Is One Merge Away – IEEE Spectrum
  • Ethereum va passer à la proof of stake, finally, mais l’événement est prévu depuis longtemps 
  • Of course, Ethereum’s move to proof of stake has been six months away for years now. “[We thought] it would take one year to [implement] POS … but it actually [has] taken around six years,” Ethereum’s founder, Vitalik Buterin, told Fortune in May 2021. That’s because building such a model is complex. 
    • Why Ethereum is switching to proof of stake and how it will work
• BlenderBot / You can turn Meta’s chatbot against Mark Zuckerberg  
• Feu vert pour le projet Cargo et son transport souterrain de marchandises – rts.ch – Suisse 
• A superhighway for drones to fly between British cities | The Economist

#AskNiptech

• https://www.journaldugeek.com/2022/08/11/paris-2024-un-laser-anti-drone-veillera-sur-le-public-des-jeux-olympiques/  @Benoit Curdy est-ce que c’est efficace ce genre de système ?
  
• #AskNipTech Pensez-vous (surtout @syde habitué au marché asiatique) que le sujet Taïwan et la « guerre froide » US-CN peut mettre un sérieux coup de frein aux fabricants tech (Apple, Dell et consort) ? Ou à l’inverse que ça va inciter à relocaliser à moyen/long terme la production ?
• DALL-E 2 https://twitter.com/coolman0260/status/1550226436027547648?t=wWrbJEPMjF_tls9soy3RCQ&s=19 

Inspiration

• #DIGITAL DETOX  :: Syde’s vacation 
• #BOOK ::  
  • World Without End: A Novel (Kingsbridge Book 2) by Ken Follet 
  • In Search Of The Miraculous: P. D. Ouspensky
• #PODCAST 
  • « A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states. » — @balajis
• #AUDIOBOOK :: Why Nations Fail

#QUOTE :: “When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl