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Headlines 🔥
Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down
Hertz is selling its EVs because it botched the rollout for ride-share drivers
X-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees
The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you
Google’s Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are matching their best prices to date
As Disney pushes toward streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024
OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots
Samsung’s Galaxy phones will soon work as a PC webcam for Microsoft Teams
Alaska Airlines Flight 1282: How could iPhones survive a 16,000-foot drop?
Top Product 📲
Lex is a modern word processor designed to enhance the writing experience through AI integration and collaboration features. Key aspects of Lex include:
AI Feedback: Users can receive AI-generated feedback on drafts, brainstorm ideas, or rewrite sections of their document.
Comments: The platform offers a polished commenting system with keyboard shortcuts for easy navigation.
Versions: Lex allows users to experiment with different ways of expressing ideas without losing their original content.
Mobile Web Accessibility: It supports mobile web use, enabling collaboration without the need for app downloads.
Live Collaboration: Users can share a link and collaborate in real-time, seeing what others are typing as it happens.
Publishing: Lex provides the option to send read-only links for others to view the written content.
Commands: The platform includes AI shortcuts for finding the best words, generating ideas, and more.
Title Ideas: With a single click, users can get a list of AI-generated title ideas.
Track Changes (Coming Soon): A feature similar to Google Docs’ track changes, but with additional functionalities.
Simplicity and Efficiency: Lex is praised for its minimalist interface and efficient AI capabilities, positioning itself as a potential replacement for traditional word processors like Google Docs.
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Top Book Recommendation 📚
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.
Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly—understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray—statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.
As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.
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