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Netflix is reportedly developing a live-action Pokémon series | Netflix is in the early stages of developing a live-action Pokémon TV series. Nintendo and Netflix were previously developing a live-action Legend of Zelda series, but it was canceled due to leaks. Netflix has had success with game-based series and it plans to release more. It is also planning to fund and deliver mobile games to its subscribers at no additional cost. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back To Phones If The EU Gets Its Way | The EU's new battery regulations will require a wide range of manufacturers to produce devices with easily removable, replaceable, and recyclable batteries. Devices affected by this law include smartphones and other typical consumer appliances. It also affects batteries for light means of transport, such as e-bikes and e-scooters. The law will mean that many devices will have to be redesigned. Manufacturers have until January 1, 2024, to comply with the law. | 4Miscellaneous
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Dflat (GitHub Repo) | Dflat is a structured data persistence system for mobile. It returns immutable data objects that can be passed down to other systems, fetches data concurrently and synchronously on any thread, and more. Unlike alternatives like Core Data, Dflat is built entirely using Swift. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Apple removes app used in Hong Kong protests after pressure from China | Apple has removed HKmap.live from its App store, stating that it had consulted with the Hong Kong Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau and found that the app was being used to target police and commit crimes. HKmap.live is an app that crowdsources information from users and public sources to mark the locations of police and inform about street closures. It has been widely used by Hong Kong residents during the ongoing pro-democracy protests this year. The developers of HKmap.live said that there was no evidence to support the CSTCB's accusations and that the app never solicited, promoted, or encouraged criminal activity. Apps like Waze, which similarly allow users to track the locations of police checkpoints, remain available on the App Store. The web version of HKmap.live is still accessible on the iPhone. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Flatfile - Data import is broken. We fixed it. (Sponsor) | Flatfile - Data import is broken. We fixed it. . Flatfile is an unmatched toolkit for data import. At Flatfile, they’re able to get your data to you exactly how it need to look without making your implementation team, engineers, or - even worse - your customers have to figure this out themselves.Get started free with Github. | 0Sponsor
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Google just released 1,000 new images of the most gorgeous landscapes in Google Earth View | Google has updated its Google Earth View collection with 1,000 new images of some of Earth's most stunning landscapes as seen from space. The collection now boasts over 2,500 landscapes from across the globe with images optimized for 4K screens. Google Earth View images can be used as wallpapers and screensavers for a range of devices. A link to Google Earth View is available in the article. | 4Miscellaneous
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PatrickStar (GitHub Repo) | Training Pre-Trained NLP Models requires enormous hardware resources, but PatrickStar makes it available to everyone. PTMs are models that are trained with massive data and have learned generic features of the language. PatrickStar makes full use of both CPU and GPU memory to train larger PTMs with fewer GPUs. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Instagram will start removing influencers’ branded posts that advertise vapes, tobacco, and weapons | Instagram will begin to enforce existing rules against advertising vapes, tobacco, and weapon products more strictly. Products such as alcohol and diet supplements will have special restrictions put into place, with age restrictions on who will be able to see the content. New Instagram users have to input birthdates. Facebook's Brand Collabs Manager is being made available to a select group of Instagram creators. These changes were expected when Instagram began hiding the public like count on posts. As Instagram begins to start formally recognizing the work that influencers do, it is more responsible for the posts that these influencers make, so it is essential for it to start taking down posts that don't comply with its rules. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Scientists created artificial skin that can feel pain | Researchers from RMIT have created an artificial skin capable of sensing and reacting to pain. The artificial skin mimics the nerve pathways in the human body that connect the skin to the brain. It can measure changes in pressure and temperature. The skin can differentiate between different levels and types of pain and transmit signals at the same speeds as nerves in the human body. The technology could be used to improve prosthetics, robots, and skin grafts, though much more work is needed before the artificial skin can interface with the human nervous system. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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From floating guts to 'sticky' blood – here's how to do surgery in space | While humans haven't needed surgery in space yet, the time is coming near when it will be necessary as spaceflight is becoming more accessible. Current procedures on the ISS are to stabilize patients enough to transport them back to Earth for surgery. However, that procedure won't work for longer missions, such as trips to Mars. Space travel changes many aspects of how the body works due to changed physics. Experimental surgeries have already been performed on rats in microgravity, resulting in innovations such as magnetic surgical tools. A specialized surgical enclosure could help solve many of the issues associated with the lack of gravity. 3D printing will be an important technology when it comes to equipping space surgeons. Robotic surgery is also another option, but the lag in communications in space is an issue. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Founder Rewind (Videos) | Founder Rewind is a list of videos of famous founders and entrepreneurs from their "early days". Really interesting to see, I gotta say little Bill Gates is adorable. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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FortuneSheet (GitHub Repo) | FortuneSheet is a drop-in JavaScript spreadsheet library based on Luckysheet. It uses a data structure that is compatible with Luckysheet and has features that make it comparable to Excel and Google Sheets. An online demo is available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Trump allegedly ordered former Defense Secretary James Mattis to ‘screw Amazon’ one year before awarding a hotly contested $10 billion defense cloud contract to Microsoft | According to an upcoming book, Trump had ordered former Defense Secretary James Mattis to 'screw Amazon' out of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract that was recently awarded to Microsoft. Mattis had pushed back against the request as he wanted to pursue the contract fairly. Trump has publicly feuded with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the past. The 10-year contract involves helping the Department of Defense move sensitive data to the cloud. Other competitors for the contract included IBM and Oracle. Google had dropped out of the bidding in 2018 over concerns that it would not be able to fulfill the terms of the contract. | 4Miscellaneous
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Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus VR headsets | Amazon has released a Prime Video VR app that will allow Oculus Quest, Go, Rift, and Gear VR owners to stream shows in virtual space. The app supports voice searching, and Amazon will have 10 360-degree videos available to view in its library. Users will be able to view videos from their personal library without a Prime subscription, as long as it isn't VR-specific content. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Designing customized “brains” for robots | Modern robots can move quickly, but computing speeds haven't caught up yet. Gathering environment data and calculating plans takes up a lot of computing power. A team of researchers has developed a system called robomorphic computing, which creates customized hardware designs to best serve a particular robot's computing needs. The custom hardware performs significantly better than off-the-shelf CPU and GPU units. The team is now working on automating the process. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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India’s Going to the Moon, and the Country Is Pumped | India’s plan to send a robotic rover to the south pole of the moon was delayed due to technical issues. Chandrayaan-2 will be the first ever space mission to the moon’s south pole. While India has hundreds of millions of people stuck in poverty, its universities produce some of the best software engineers and scientists in the world, making the country suited to space exploration. In 2008, an Indian space mission discovered water molecules on the moon. Many citizens are filled with a sense of national pride regarding the mission and children are learning about space exploration in special learning programs. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Apple threatens to remove Airbnb from App Store over virtual experiences commission | Apple has demanded a 30% commission for sales of online classes sold by Airbnb and ClassPass. The platforms received notice from Apple once the companies transitioned classes to a virtual format. Other similar businesses have paid fees for years. ClassPass has until the end of the year to comply, but it has already stopped selling virtual classes via its iPhone app. Apple is still negotiating with Airbnb, who had been planning on offering online experiences since before the pandemic. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Robot With Liquid Metal Tendons Can Heal Itself | All robots will eventually break, so researchers have been developing ways to help them fix themselves. Some robots have self-healing polymers, but more dynamic robots require stronger materials. Roboticists from the University of Tokyo have developed a robot leg that can autonomously melt and reform some of its parts, repairing fractures. The leg is designed with a weak point that will break in order to protect the robot's other joints. It currently takes about half an hour to heal after a break, and the parts are significantly weaker afterwards. The researchers are working to optimize the system to increase the healed strength. A video is available that shows the self-healing process. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Ultimate Coding Resources List (GitHub Repo) | This repository contains a collection of the best resources for programming, web development, computer science, and more. Resources include books, courses, coding platforms, algorithm platforms, job sites, and code playgrounds. A quick summary is available for each resource. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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This video shows the most popular programming languages on Stack Overflow since September 2008 (1:27 Video) | This video shows the percentage of Stack Overflow questions for each programming language for every month since September 2008. C# was the leading language until 2012, when Java, JavaScript, and PHP started becoming more popular. JavaScript dominated until 2018, after which Python overtook it. Python is currently the most popular language. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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2-Acre Vertical Farm Run By AI And Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm | Vertical indoor farms allow farmers anywhere in the world to grow food all year while using 95% less water and 99% less land. In recent years, farmers have started using drones, robots, and artificial intelligence to improve crop maintenance. As indoor farms can be located anywhere, they cut down on transportation, which reduces CO2 emissions and prices for customers. Plenty is an ag-tech startup that builds indoor farms. It has already received $400 million in investment capital and it has a deal with Albertsons stores in California to supply 430 stores with fresh produce. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Lens (GitHub Repo) | Lens is a cross-platform user interface for managing Kubernetes clusters. It has support for multi-cluster management, real-time cluster state visualization, terminal access to nodes and containers, and more. A three-minute video is available that explores the Lens UI. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Microsoft’s new ‘Planetary Computer’ project will use global environmental data to support sustainability | Microsoft's Planetary Computer is an endeavor that uses aggregate global environmental data to better understand the challenges faced in planetary health and to provide answers about how to plan for sustainability. The computer will complete tasks such as providing searchable satellite imagery, global species habitat information, and more. This is an evolution of Microsoft's AI for Earth program that was launched in 2017. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies | This post follows the experience of Dalia Awad, a 19-year-old female Computer Engineering student who was offered summer internships at Google and Repl.it. Awad became passionate about programming in high school while building robots for a competition. After completing a coding boot camp on a scholarship, Awad saw a Facebook post about Manara and decided to apply. Manara is a service that connects people in Palestine and the Middle East to positions at global tech companies. The service connected Awad to her potential employers and prepared her for her interviews. Thanks to the preparation from Manara, Awad now is able to choose from offers from two of the most famous tech companies in the world. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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These $50,000 tiny homes unfold out of shipping containers and can be combined into custom houses | Boxabl is a startup that builds tiny homes that unfold out of shipping containers. It is looking to mass-produce modules that can be stacked to create custom buildings. Earlier this year, it released a 375-square-foot prefab studio apartment for $50,000. Images showing how the houses are constructed, as well as pictures inside of a furnished demo home, are available in the article. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook | Users are complaining about Samsung's deal with Facebook to have an undeletable Facebook app pre-installed on new Galaxy phones. Facebook claims the disabled version of the app doesn't collect or send data to Facebook. While other apps like Amazon and Youtube also come pre-installed, users are particularly concerned about Facebook, with one user saying "If I can't delete it, this will be the last Samsung product I ever own." | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Instagram just threw users of its embedding API under the bus | Users of Instagram's embedding API do not receive a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites. This means that embedding an image onto a website rather than hosting it directly does not protect the website against copyright claims. Third parties are still required to obtain the necessary rights to share the content if it is required by law. Instagram is exploring options with giving users more control over photograph embedding. Users can currently block embedding by setting their accounts to private, but this prevents other users from seeing images on the platform itself. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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NASA Found Another Way Into Nuclear Fusion | Lattice confinement fusion is a type of fusion that takes place in the narrow channels between atoms, resulting in a Goldilocks effect where the atoms are neither supercooled nor superheated, but they reach fusion-level energy. The energy required to induce fusion is significantly lower when atoms are packed densely within the atomic lattice of another element. Other methods of inducing fusion require immense temperatures that continue to create logistical problems. Scientists will need to find a way to increase the rate of atomic reactions manyfold before lattice confinement fusion is practical. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Scientists Have Grown Acid-Producing Advanced Mini-Stomachs In the Lab | Scientists from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have created mini-stomachs from human pluripotent stem cells that can contract and produce acid. The scientists turned stem cells into three primary germ layers and used them to generate stomach tissue with abilities close to regular stomachs. The mini-stomachs were transplanted into mice, where they grew a thousand times larger than they usually would in a cell culture and also developed features that had been lacking. The team aims to be able to transplant organoid tissues into human patients by the end of the decade. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Apple announces a way to buy stuff by tapping iPhones together | Apple is releasing a new Tap to Pay feature for the iPhone that allows people to receive payments. The feature turns iPhones into point-of-sale terminals without any extra hardware. It uses the iPhone's NFC ship to accept Apple Pay and most contactless credit cards. The feature will be accessed through third-party apps. Stripe and Shopify will be among the first to integrate the feature later this year. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Amplication (Website) | Amplication is a development tool that helps you develop quality Node.js applications. It has simple interfaces for creating data models and configuring role-based access control. Amplication can continuously push to Github and create Docker containers. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments (8 minute video) | Strateos is a robotic cloud lab that automates the laboratory process so that researchers can perform experiments remotely. Lab work is time-intensive and prone to human error. Using automation, multiple experiments can be performed simultaneously and perfectly and the results are more accurate. Many instructions in chemistry are ambiguous, but Strateos' experiments are all defined by code, which means that all experiments can be perfectly replicated. Strateos provides a web app where scientists can define their experiments. The platform allows anyone to access state-of-the-art equipment for their experiments. This video explains how Strateos works while showing footage of what goes on inside the lab. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Alpine.js (GitHub Repo) | Alpine.js is a framework for composing JavaScript behavior in markups. It offers the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost. A small guide to use the 12 directives and 3 magic properties in Alpine.js is available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Amazon announces new cloud gaming service called Luna | Amazon has announced a new cloud gaming platform called Luna. News of the service has been rumored since last year. It will be initially available on PC, Mac, Fire TV, and via web apps. Users in the US can request early access, with an introductory price of $5.99 a month. The service offers subscribers the ability to play Luna Plus channel games on two devices simultaneously. 4K/60fps resolution will be available for select titles. Luna will feature Twitch integration. Amazon has also announced its own Alexa-enabled Luna Controller which will cost $49.99. Over 100 titles will be available at launch, and Amazon has partnered with Ubisoft for content. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks | It is possible to fake a positive Covid-19 lateral flow test using soft drinks. The effect is likely caused by the acidity of the drinks deforming the antibodies used in the test, impacting their function. Fake positive tests revert back to negative if they are washed with a buffer solution. The article contains a detailed explanation of how the Covid-19 test works. | 4Miscellaneous
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Moderna starts human trials of an mRNA-based flu shot | Moderna has started human trials of its mRNA-based seasonal flu vaccine. While mRNA vaccines were largely experimental before the pandemic, they were already considered the future of vaccine development. The high efficacy of the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines was a major endorsement for this type of vaccine. mRNA vaccines are faster to make so they could theoretically be more closely matched with the type of flu spreading each season. Moderna hopes to eventually create a combination vaccine for respiratory infections. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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OpenAI introduces Jukebox, a new AI model that generates genre-specific music with lyrics | Jukebox is a new generative model by OpenAI that can create music. The model is able to generate lyrics, although the lyrics need to be modified. Jukebox can generate music in different artists’ styles and genres, but the music it generates misses some familiar larger musical structures, such as choruses that repeat. A link to Jukebox’s project page, which contains samples, is available in the article. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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A New Type Of COVID-19 Vaccine Could Debut Soon | Protein subunit vaccines have been used for a while for diseases like hepatitis and pertussis. Novavax is looking to become the first company to release a protein subunit vaccine for Covid-19. The vaccine will contain the spike protein with an adjuvant that enhances the immune system's response. The spike protein can be grown using vats of cells or with genetically modified plants. There are currently at least three types of Covid-19 protein subunit vaccines in development. | 4Miscellaneous
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Twitter test lets you 'unmention' yourself in tweets | Twitter is rolling out a feature that lets users remove themselves from conversations. The 'Unmention' feature is currently only available for some users through Twitter's web interface. Twitter has other features to keep mentions civil, such as its anti-harassment Safety Mode that automatically blocks mean-spirited users. The new Unmention feature will allow users to have more direct control over unwanted mentions. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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KalidoKit (GitHub Repo) | KalidoKit is a blendshape and kinematics solver designed for rigging VRM models and Live2D avatars. It provides face, eyes, pose, and handtracking by taking predicted 3D landmarks and calculating simple Euler rotations and blendshape face values. KalidoKit is compatible with Facemesh, Blazepose, Handpose, and Holistic. Examples are available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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This Video Has _______ Views (YouTube Video) | The title of the video will change depending on when you open the video. It should display the exact number of views that is on the video. Tom Scott explains in his video how he was able to achieve this feat. Screen-scraping has been used for a long time, but it is an easy method to break. Many websites block screen-scraping methods but allow users to interact with their software through APIs. Unfortunately, even though API access is useful, some people use them for malicious reasons. Therefore, many platforms have limited the functionality of their APIs. Dependence on outside APIs will mean that your software will one day stop working. Just because something will break in the future, doesn't mean that it shouldn't be built in the first place. | 4Miscellaneous
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All-new iPad Air and iPad mini deliver dramatic power and capability | Apple today released a new 10.5 inch iPad Air and 7.9 inch iPad mini. Both models now support the 1st-generation Apple Pencil and have an A12 Bionic chip, Gigabit-class LTE, and eSIM technology. iPad Air pricing starts at $499 for the Wi-Fi model and $629 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model, and the new iPad mini starts at $399 for the Wi-Fi model and $529 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model. The new iPads are available to order starting today and will be available in stores next week. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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For The First Time, Scientists Successfully Extract DNA From Insects Embedded In Tree Resin | When a small animal is trapped in tree resin, its soft tissues start to decay immediately and most of the DNA is lost before the animal is encapsulated and preserved. Any remaining DNA is usually destroyed over time as the resin's compounds react with it. A recent study found that fragile bits of DNA still exist in samples of beetles two to six years after the beetles were preserved in resin. It found that common methods of studying DNA weren't effective for use with DNA from resin samples, and some techniques actually destroyed the fragile DNA inside the resin. The scientists will use the techniques from the study to examine other resin-embedded insects to determine how long DNA can survive inside the environment. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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TUIC (GitHub Repo) | TUIC is a high-performance proxy built on top of the QUIC protocol. QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol that improves the performance of connection-oriented web applications that use TCP. TUIC features two relay modes, user-space congestion control, smooth session transfer on network switching, and more. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Neural Network Intelligence (GitHub Repo) | Neural Network Intelligence (NNI) is a toolkit to help users automate Feature Engineering, Neural Architecture Search, Hyperparameter Tuning, and Model Compression. It was designed so that researchers and data scientists could try different AutoML algorithms and environments for their models. NNI comes with a command-line tool and a WebUI. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says | A senior Italian doctor says that the new coronavirus has lost its potency, claiming that recent swabs were returning results with viral concentrations that were infinitesimally smaller than the ones carried out over the past few months. Italy has the third-highest death toll in the world from COVID-19, with the sixth-highest global tally of cases. Infections and fatalities have fallen steadily in May and the country is looking to unwind some of its most rigid lockdown restrictions. The doctor claims that other experts were too alarmist about the prospect of a second wave of infections and that politicians need to start getting the country back to normal. A member of the health ministry stated that Italians should maintain maximum caution pending scientific evidence to support the thesis that the threat of the virus has disappeared. | 4Miscellaneous
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Hacking Neural Networks: A Short Introduction (GitHub Repo) | This repository contains short introductions on methods of finding vulnerabilities in neural networks and exploiting them. There are nine exercises covering topics such as backdooring, neural overflow, malware injection, and GPU attacks. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Woman receives 3D-printed ear made from her own cells | 3DBio Therapeutics has successfully transplanted a 3D-printed ear made from human cells onto a woman born with a rare ear deformity. The experimental process involves taking a biopsy from the patient's ear and pulling out cartilage cells, which are then grown and 3D printed into the shape of an ear. The implant is less likely to be rejected as it is made from the patient's own cells. It was the first clinical trial of the technology. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code | The secret key that encrypts updates to an assortment of Intel CPUs has been extracted, allowing third parties to decrypt the microcode updates Intel provides to fix security vulnerabilities and other types of bugs. It is possible to update Intel chips with custom microcode using the secret key. While there is no way to effectively eliminate the vulnerability, Intel has released a statement that the issue was not serious for customers. An attacker would require physical access to the machine and the key can't be used to infect CPUs in the supply chain. | 4Miscellaneous
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A top designer wants to build an air-purifying Tesla rival that you can sleep and eat in | Chinese auto firm IM Motors hired a London-based studio to design its new electric vehicle. The firm had no experience designing cars, although it was behind the futuristic designs of Google's new buildings in Mountain View and London. The vehicle design features double sliding doors, adjustable seats that can be turned into beds, and a battery-powered air purifier that will help clean the air around the vehicle. Its interior is being envisioned as an extension of the home. Pictures of the design are available in the article. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Experimental US Air Force space plane breaks previous record for orbital spaceflight | The US Air Force's Boeing-built X-37B space plane has broken its previous record for time spent in space at 719 days and counting. It was launched with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on September 2017. The plane's mission is classified, but it involves spending time in space and conducting experiments that can be returned to and examined on Earth. It is completely autonomous, with no crew on board, and it can land itself horizontally on a runway. The X-37 program began at NASA in 1999, after which it was transferred to DARPA, and finally to the US Air Force in 2004. It has flown four times, with a total of 2,085 days in space. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Ask HN: How to level up your technical writing? (Hacker News Thread) | This thread contains advice and links to courses on how to become a better technical writer. | 4Miscellaneous
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New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects | Direct sound printing (DSP) is a new 3D printing technology developed by scientists at Canada's Concordia University. It involves sending focused pulses of ultrasound through a chamber into a liquid resin contained within. The sound causes rapidly oscillating microscopic bubbles to form at specific points in the resin, causing the resin to solidify at the exact location of the bubble. DSP is able to produce small, detailed items within structures that have opaque surfaces. It could potentially be used to 3D-print repairs into internal components or create implants inside a human body without surgery. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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A Google VP Told The US Senate The Company Has “Terminated” The Chinese Search App Dragonfly | Information about a secret project by Google to launch a search engine in China was leaked in August, causing internal backlash from employees who did not want their work to be used unethically. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Google's vice president of public policy said that Project Dragonfly had been terminated. Google has been saying since March that it has no plans for a search engine in China and that the employees working on Project Dragonfly have moved onto other projects. Employees at Google have been active in voicing their opinions on controversial projects through protests and petitions. | 4Miscellaneous
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Package validator (GitHub Repo) | Package validator implements value validations for structs and individual fields based on tags. It features Cross Field and Cross Struct validations by using validation tags or custom validators, the ability to dive into both map keys and values for validation, alias validation tags, customizable i18n aware error messages, and more. Full documentation, benchmark scores, and examples are available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Scientists Found a Way to Delete Short Term Memory of Mice. Using Light? | Scientists from Japan have successfully manipulated mice memories using a neural-optic system. The experiment involved putting mice in a dark chamber that gave them electric shocks to make them anxious around the chamber. Mice that received the treatment forgot about the dangerous environment and entered it again. The treatment involved illuminating certain neurons to inhibit a protein essential to consolidating memory during sleep. The technology provides a method for isolating memory formation and could lead to a range of treatments for mental disorders. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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MoviePass Has Officially Shut Down, And We Don't Know If There Will Be A Sequel | MoviePass, the subscription service where users could watch as many movies as they wanted for $9.95 a month, has shut down. When MoviePass launched, subscriptions were around $40 a month, but the price lowered as the number of subscribers increased, resulting in large losses for the company. MoviePass executives had hoped that studios would use the service to promote their films and monetize data from subscribers, but that never happened. Eventually, the company ran out of cash and was surviving on loans. It resorted to restricting the number of movies subscribers could watch, among other tactics. Existing subscribers will be given appropriate refunds for the period of service they have paid for. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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How to use Jupyter Notebooks in 2020 | Data science is a rapidly changing industry. The need for production has grown throughout the years, evidenced by the rise in demand for machine learning engineers and data science software developers. Adoption of the Cloud is now necessary as datasets become larger. Jupyter has now grown, and we now have JupyterLab, new kernels for other languages, and third-party tooling. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of data | Spotify Wrapped is one of Spotify's largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. Every year, users see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits. The Wrapped team consists of many sub-teams that are responsible for marketing, legal, design, data, frontend, and backend engineering. In 2019, the team processed around five times the amount of data compared to 2018's Wrapped campaign at a fraction of the cost. This was achieved through optimizing the architecture so it could read, process, and validate data quickly and effectively. The system was designed so that group-by key operations were reduced, and the output data from yearly jobs was used for some metrics. As the summaries were broken down into smaller data stories and workflows, Spotify was able to create a more flexible system that allowed for quick iteration and exploration. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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How To Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical - Part II | The goal of an engineering interview is to ask questions that surface understanding of engineering culture and attitude. It is difficult to assess technical ability through programming quizzes or by reviewing code, so an interview should judge the engineer’s mastery of software process and communication. Asking questions related to a candidate’s problem-solving strategies, how a candidate sees their work, and how they would build their ideal team reveals important information about a candidate. Additional interview questions, as well as discussions on why they are effective, are in the article. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Exclusive: Apple targets car production by 2024 and eyes 'next level' battery technology | Apple's Project Titan is moving forward with its self-driving car technology. The iPhone maker plans to release a passenger vehicle by 2024. Apple has designed a new battery that could reduce the cost of batteries and increase its vehicles' range. The automotive industry is expensive to enter, and it is unclear whether Apple plans to make its own branded vehicles or partner with an established automaker. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Amazon warehouse workers push to unionize in NYC | Employees at Amazon's new Staten Island fulfillment center have announced they intend to unionize. The workers say they want to address safety concerns, lengthy unpaid security checks, unreasonable hourly quotas, and insufficient breaks. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have sent Amazon a letter saying that raising minimum wage to $15/hour doesn't "give you a free pass to engage in potentially illegal anti-union behavior." | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Olivia (Website) | Olivia is an open-source chatbot. It can answer questions by recognizing certain patterns and then responding with standardized outputs. For example, it can tell you what the capital of a country is, generate random numbers, and answer simple math questions. Developers can create customize modules to expand Olivia’s abilities. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid | The Babuk Locker gang is a ransomware group that began operating in January this year. Its ransomware can encrypt files stored on VMWare eSXI shared virtual hard drives. The group has threatened to leak sensitive files that may expose police investigations unless the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia agrees to pay a ransom demand. It claims it has more than 250 GB of data from DC Police servers. DC Police officials have three days to respond. | 4Miscellaneous
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They spent 12 years solving a puzzle. It yielded the first COVID-19 vaccines | A small group of government and university scientists who spent more than a decade studying viruses contributed a critical piece to the most promising candidates for the COVID-19 vaccines. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can change shape, making it difficult to neutralize. Previous research into cold vaccines found that stabilizing the shapeshifting protein resulted in more neutralizing power. This technique was used to design an experimental mRNA vaccine for MERS, then later was used in developing the COVID-19 vaccines. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear | A new method developed by a team of international researchers can diagnose cancer up to four years before symptoms appear. The blood test measures DNA methylation at 500 locations previously identified as having the greatest chance of signaling the presence of cancer. A machine-learning algorithm is then used to produce a score that indicates the person's likelihood of having cancer. It was found to be roughly 90 percent accurate, with a five percent false-positive rate. The test could be the first step to developing a commercial cancer-screening product, but further studies will be required before it can be used clinically. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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A.I. Robot Cast in Lead Role of $70M Sci-Fi Film | A robot named Erica has been selected to be the lead actress in a science fiction film. The robot was created by two Japanese scientists as part of their study of robotics. They simulated her motions and emotions through one-on-one sessions, talking through her feelings and coaching character development and body language. The robot was originally set to debut in a different project directed by Tony Kaye (American History X) but there were scheduling issues. | 4Miscellaneous
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Data Eng Weekly (Newsletter) | Data Eng Weekly is an excellent newsletter delivered each sunday that keeps you up to date on news and open source libraries related to big data technologies and distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.). If you're a data scientist or do engineering work on data pipelines, definitely take a look at this. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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COVID-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports | Sinovac Biotech, a privately held Beijing-based company, has developed a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine that has proven to be effective in rhesus macaque monkeys. Human trials of the vaccine began on April 16. The monkeys who received higher doses of the vaccine had the best response, though the lower dosed animals still received benefits from the treatment. The vaccine is an old-fashioned formulation consisting of a chemically inactivated version of the virus. While the results are promising, some scientists are concerned as previous research into coronavirus resistance has suggested that low antibody levels could lead to aberrant immune responses, enhancing the infection. As of April 23, six other vaccines had entered human trials and 77 others were in development. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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FoundersGrid (Weekly Newsletter) | FoundersGrid is a bi-weekly newsletter that includes a curated list of stories in tech, actionable business guides, and discounts on new tools and products. Sort of like a weekly version of TLDR! | 4Miscellaneous
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Tesla launches car insurance offering in California | Tesla has launched a car insurance offering which provides Tesla owners with up to 30 percent lower rates. It will start rolling out to US states in the next few months, beginning with California. Factors such as the company's vehicle safety features, including Autopilot, make lower-priced insurance possible. Tesla doesn't use GPS or camera footage when pricing insurance, but some of the data collected from the vehicles is used when calculating insurance prices. Existing customers will be able to purchase an insurance policy in as little as one minute on Tesla's website. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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OpenAI bot crushes Dota 2 champions, and now anyone can play against it | OpenAI Five played a best-of-three match against OG, the winners of last year’s The International, and won. The bot has been trained by playing millions of games against itself and has learned how to win consistently, albeit with certain limitations. During the competition, the bot was given a few handicaps. There was no communication between the bots, their reaction time was artificially slowed, and hero choice was limited as some hero skills would give the bot more advantages. While the bot knows how to win the game, it doesn’t actually know how to play the game, so it gets confused in novel situations. In the second of the two games played, OpenAI Five defeated OG within 20 minutes. | 4Miscellaneous
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PyTorch-BigGraph (GitHub Repo) | PyTorch-BigGraph (PBG) is a is a distributed system for learning graph embeddings for large graphs. It trains on an input graph by identifying the source and target entities in the list of edges of the graph and outputs a feature vector for each entity, attempting to place entities with a similar distribution nearby to each other. PBG is able to train a number of models from the knowledge graph embedding literature, including TransE, RESCAL, DistMult, and ComplEx. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story | Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story will be discontinued on March 31. Features will start being restricted from late January. Stack Overflow will continue to support the advertising component of its Talent offering and companies can keep using Employer Branding solutions to promote their brand. The changes aim to help developers evaluate companies to decide whether they offer the right opportunities. | 4Miscellaneous
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Israeli Scientists 3D-Print A Tiny, Live Heart Made With Human Tissue | Researchers from Tel Aviv University have successfully created the first fully personalized tissue implant made from a patient’s own biomaterials and cells. This research may eventually lead to the development of technology that can print any kind of organ implant from a single fatty tissue biopsy. The process involves taking fatty tissue from the patient, separating the cells and structures, reprogramming the cells, and then recombining the parts to create a hydrogel that acts as ink for the printer. Using the process, the scientists created a tiny heart that was complete in structure. There are still many obstacles to overcome before the technology will be viable for full human organ transplants, but scientists hope to be able to start animal trials within the next few years. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Google’s New AI Photo Upscaling Tech is Jaw-Dropping | Google's latest breakthroughs in image super-resolution can turn low-resolution photos into detailed images. A recent post detailed two approaches to image super-resolution. SR3 is a super-resolution diffusion model that works well on upscaling portraits and natural images. CDM is a class-conditional diffusion model that upscales photos in a cascade. Examples of upscaled images using these techniques are available in the article. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Alphabet’s Wing launches app to manage air traffic for drones | Wing has launched an app to manage air traffic for drones. OpenSky has been approved to manage drone flights in Australia, where Wing opened its first public drone delivery service earlier this year. Air traffic management for drones is important, especially for Wing, who wants to put thousands of drones into operation. Other companies are also working on similar air traffic control systems. Wing is still trying to gain approval for drone delivery in the US. Australia and New Zealand have become the leaders in small, electric, unpiloted aviation. Wing is also conducting drone delivery trials in Finland. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Floating UI (GitHub Repo) | Floating UI is a low-level JavaScript library for positioning floating elements. It is tiny and features hyper-granular control of every positioning behavior and a powerful middleware system for extensions. Floating UI can run on any JavaScript environment that provides measurement APIs. Examples are available on the main website. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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The Collison Brothers Built Stripe Into A $95 Billion Unicorn With Eye-Popping Financials. Inside Their Plan To Stay On Top (12 minute read) | John and Patrick Collision founded Stripe in 2010. The company's gross revenue reached nearly $12 billion in 2021. It reached a valuation of $95 billion in March 2021. This article tells the story of the Collision brothers and Stripe. It talks about how the company was built as well as its plans for the future. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Russia registers world's first Covid-19 vaccine for animals | Russia has registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine for animals. Carnivak-Cov is a sorbate inactivated vaccine for carnivorous animals, such as dogs, cats, foxes, and minks. Its effects are estimated to last at least six months. It can prevent further mutations of the virus. Last year, Denmark culled 17 million minks over concerns the animals were spreading a mutated form of the virus. Russia was the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in humans, but its early rollout was criticized globally. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Sorbet (GitHub Repo) | Sorbet is a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby. It makes it easy to add to existing codebases with gradual types. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Matrix: Resurrections trailer is sheer perfection, both fresh and familiar | The trailer for The Matrix: Resurrections has been released. It was first previewed at last month's CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The fourth installment of the franchise was first announced in August 2019. Many past cast members returned for their roles, and there will be a host of new characters. A link to the trailer is available in the article. | 4Miscellaneous
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What part of the developer experience is hardest for companies to get right? | In this article, Protocol interviews developers to find out what part of the developer experience is hardest for companies to get right. Companies are often lacking in tools, documentation, and communication. Not getting these things right slows down development. The best companies work to create environments that help developers build products. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Impossible Foods gets FDA approval to sell fake meat in grocery stores | Impossible Foods has been granted approval by the FDA to sell its plant-based meat in US groceries this fall. The additive in Impossible Burgers that gives it a meat-like flavor and makes it 'bleed', soy leghemoglobin, has been deemed safe for consumers to eat. Competitor Beyond Meat already sells its plant-based meat products in grocery stores, recently selling out at some Whole Foods locations. Currently, consumers can only purchase Impossible Foods' fake meat at partnered restaurants, including Burger King, Qdoba, and Claim Jumper. The demand for meat alternatives is likely to grow as people become more health-conscious. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Netflix launches $4 mobile-only monthly plan in Malaysia | Netflix will launch its mobile-only monthly plan in Malaysia for $4 a month. The plan will limit access to Netflix on just one mobile device at 480p. Users will not be able to cast Netflix to other devices. More than 88 percent of people in Malaysia own a smartphone and 78 percent stream and download media content. Other aggressively priced services in Malaysia include iFlix, Dimsum, playTV, and Astro Go. Netflix will produce original content for Malaysian customers. It has raised its prices to $13 per month for its most popular plan in the US. Netflix has missed its subscriber forecast for the second quarter in a row. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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NASA’s New “Metallic Glass” Gears Can Withstand Impact, Freezing Temperatures During Lunar Missions | Solar systems are cold and exploration requires hardware that can withstand extreme environments. NASA's Bulk Metallic Glass Gears team is developing a material made out of metallic glass that can function in extremely cold environments without heating. Unheated gearboxes will reduce the overall power required for operations in cold environments. Currently, gears need to be heated before they can be used in space. The material has been through rigorous testing to ensure that it will not be damaged by the stressful events that occur during a mission. Gears made from this material could enable operations during the lunar night, on ocean worlds, and in other extremely cold and dark environments. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Tiger tests positive for coronavirus at Bronx Zoo, first known case in the world | Seven big cats are exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID-19 at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. One tiger has tested positive for the coronavirus. It is the first time a non-domesticated animal has gotten sick from the virus. The tiger likely caught the virus from an asymptomatic zookeeper. Other domestic animals have also previously tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, including a Pomeranian, a German shepherd, and a domestic cat. Zookeepers are taking extra precautions around great apes as they may be particularly susceptible to the virus. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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NASA and SpaceX are Developing Tech to Refuel Spacecraft While in Orbit | NASA's Artemis program is a collaboration between NASA and 13 private US companies with the aim of taking humans back to the Moon by 2024. SpaceX will be part of the Artemis program, developing technologies that will help spacecraft refuel while in orbit. Pulling away from Earth's gravity is typically where most fuel is used, so being able to refuel a spacecraft while in space would greatly improve the efficiency and range of space travel. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Apple Watch blood sugar sensor 'coming in Series 7' | The next Apple Watch will have a blood sugar sensor, according to reports. More than 10% of Americans have type 1 diabetes, with an estimated over 26 million undiagnosed cases in the country. Adding a blood sugar sensor would play a valuable role in prompting formal testing, diagnosis, and treatment. Non-invasive blood sugar detection can be achieved using infrared sensors. The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will likely have the same feature when it is released later this year. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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Launching the Front-End Tooling Survey 2019 | FreeCodeCamp has launched their 2019 front-end tooling survey, which seeks to discover common knowledge and usage levels of common front-end tools. Last years survey found that React and Vue.js were growing significantly in importance in front-end development. This year’s survey has a focus on CSS-in-JS tools, as well as some questions regarding performance and accessibility tools and features. The survey is open now and will close at the end of April. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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TikTok launches a music distribution platform, SoundOn | SoundOn is TikTok's new music marketing and distribution platform. It allows artists to upload their music directly to multiple streaming platforms and TikTok. SoundOn will distribute the music for free and pay 100% of royalties to creators on Bytedance-owned platforms. 100% of royalties on other platforms will still be paid for the first year, but payments will drop to 90% after. Artists will retain all rights to their music. The service is now fully available in the US, UK, Brazil, and Indonesia. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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GE’s soft robot bores holes like a giant earthworm | A team at GE Research has designed a robot that can dig holes like an earthworm. It was developed as part of DARPA's Underminer program, a program that was created to foster rapid tunnel digging in military environments. The robot uses artificial muscles that are filled with fluid, allowing it to have a range of movements and the ability to squeeze into tight spaces. It is able to remain autonomous when underground, a key feature as it is difficult to remotely control a robot in certain scenarios. A 42-second video showing the robot moving through several pipes is available. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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github1s (GitHub Repo) | github1s displays GitHub code inside a browser-based VS Code. To use it, you just need to add '1s' after 'GitHub' in any GitHub URL. A bookmarklet and a Chrome extension is available. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Researchers translate a bird's brain activity into song | Researchers from the University of California San Diego were able to reproduce a songbird's vocalizations by only reading its brain activity. A songbird's vocalizations is similar to human speech in various ways. They are both complex and learned behaviors. The researchers used machine learning algorithms to analyze neural recordings from the birds. This study could lead to the development of a vocal prosthesis for individuals who have lost the ability to speak. | 2Science and Futuristic Technology
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Git Credential Manager Core: Building a universal authentication experience | Git Credential Manager Core is a cross-platform credential manager for Git. It supports authentication to GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos. GCM Core was designed with cross-platform and cross-host support in mind. GCM for Windows and GCM for Mac & Linux will continue to receive support for some time. | 3Programming, Design & Data Science
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Drone Swarms Are Getting Too Fast For Humans To Fight, U.S. General Warns | Humans may not be able to fight back against swarms of enemy drones, which might mean the rules governing human control over artificial intelligence might need to be relaxed. Current rules require meaningful human control over any lethal system. Pentagon leaders need to discuss how much human control of AI is needed to be safe but still effective, considering the context of countering new threats such as drone swarms. In these situations, humans on their own may be outclassed. AI could lead to reduced casualties due to target misidentification. Failing to deploy the best AI could mean defeat on the battlefield. | 4Miscellaneous
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How to Excel in Tech Without Learning to Code (15 minute read) | This article talks about the benefits of becoming technically literate and gives the reader tips on how to become more technically literate. Being technically literate means being comfortable with the basics of how technology works and having a deeper understanding of the area you work in. Becoming more technically literate can help you work better with engineers, identify chances to automate or improve your workflows, and understand the tools that you use every day. It can be achieved through study, mentorship and networking, and by learning refined search skills. | 4Miscellaneous
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Boeing employee: I would not put my family on a Max plane right now | A Boeing employee has spoken on a radio show about the state of the company on the promise of anonymity. The employee primarily worked on the 777X model. However, when commenting on the 737 Max, which is currently embroiled in controversy, the employee stated that he wouldn’t risk letting his family on one of the aircraft. The company is currently experiencing low morale, as management has been unclear on the direction of the company with employees, and there are rumors of upcoming layoffs. Boeing claims that companies which purchase airplanes were responsible for training pilots correctly. As the training isn’t mandatory, some pilots are unaware of essential systems, such as the MCAS system that failed in two airplanes, causing crashes. While the employee trusts his colleagues and the work they do, he is unsure about the management, and still has reservations about the 737 Max planes. | 4Miscellaneous
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Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm | Nvidia is preparing to abandon its $40 billion acquisition of chip designer Arm. Regulators have sued to block the transaction on antitrust grounds and there are multiple other regulatory obstacles to overcome. SoftBank, who currently owns Arm, is still optimistic that the sale will go through. Nvidia is not expecting regulators to allow the deal to be finalized. | 1Big Tech & Startups
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