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"content": "CRISPRoff is a new tool that can turn genes off for hundreds of generations of cells. These genes can be reactivated at any time using a complementary tool, CRISPRon. The tools are designed to exploit a natural epigenetic process for switching genes off. Having a reliable tool for epigenetics that lasts generations could change gene editing forever."
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"content": "A New CRISPR Tool Flips Genes On and Off Like a Light Switch"
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"content": "Fossil is selling its smartwatch IP to Google for $40 million. Some Fossil employees will be joining Google, and it looks like Google will be working on a smartwatch that they hope will be for Wear OS (their struggling wearable operating system) what Pixel is to Android."
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"content": "Google is buying Fossil's smartwatch tech for $40 million"
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"content": "Synthetic wavelength holography is a new non-line-of-sight method that can rapidly capture full-field images of large areas with submillimeter precision. The method has endless potential applications, including noninvasive medical imaging, early-warning navigation systems, space exploration, underwater acoustic imaging, and more. It works by indirectly scattering coherent light onto hidden objects, which scatters again and travels back to a camera. An algorithm is used to reconstruct the signal and reveal hidden objects. It may still be over a decade before the technology will appear in everyday use."
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"content": "New holographic camera sees the unseen with high precision"
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"content": "Amazon's new Kindle includes almost all of the best features from the latest Paperwhite for $40 less. It features 300 PPI pixel density, 16GB storage, and a USB-C charging port. A kids edition with an extended two-year warranty, colorful covers, and a one-year subscription to Amazon's Kids+ service is available. The new Kindle is available for preorder now and will be released on October 12."
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"content": "Amazon’s new Kindle offers twice the storage, a sharper screen, and USB-C for $100"
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"content": "This article explores the business and science behind Twist Bioscience and the biotech industry. Twist is a DNA manufacturing and software company. The company produces sequences of DNA that cells use to produce molecular products and molecular work. Twist uses a printing technique to produce thousands of DNA sequences at a time on silicon chips with very low error rates. The business has automated its processes, making it an API business and more like a tech company than a manufacturing company."
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"content": "Twist Biosciences: The DNA API"
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"content": "Pinterest's new CEO Bill Ready will help the platform develop into a place for users to shop brands from around the web. Ready has a track record of being ahead of the game in e-commerce. Pinterest has hundreds of millions of users but it isn't growing fast or making much money. It could be a major player in digital commerce."
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"content": "Pinterest has a new CEO, who has one job: to build the internet’s shopping mall"
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"content": "Boston Dynamics' Spot is known for its ability to walk around, open doors, climb steps, and even take clean dishes out of a dishwasher. An oil and gas company in Norway has just deployed a Spot robot to patrol a production vessel at the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea. It will be tasked with running inspections, checking for hydrocarbon leaks, and putting together reports based on the data it collects. Spot will make offshore operations safer. Boston Dynamics has been leasing Spot robots commercially since September 2019 and has customers such as the Massachusetts police department. The robot has been promoted for use in construction, public safety, oil and gas applications, and even entertainment."
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"content": "The Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Got a Job on an Oil Rig"
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"content": "China Huaneng Group Co.’s 200-megawatt small modular reactor at Shidao Bay is now operational. The nuclear plant will go into full commercial operations next year after connecting a second reactor. Its reactors are designed to shut down passively if anything goes wrong. China is expected to invest up to $440 billion into nuclear power over the next decade and a half. Small module reactors are less costly to build and operate, faster to implement, and have shorter shutdown times compared to traditional nuclear plants, making them an exciting technology for nuclear experts."
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"content": "China is Home to World's First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor"
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"content": "A new study reveals how around 26,000 genes are expressed in the freshwater sponge Spongilla. The study offers important hints about how cell types evolved and may help settle the long debate on whether neurons evolved just once or many times. Many multifunctional cells in sponges express modules of genes usually associated with specialized cells in more complex vertebrates. The study has spawned many fascinating hypotheses that scientists are now testing."
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"content": "Sponge Genes Hint at the Origins of Neurons and Other Cells"
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"content": "This article discusses the best practices of Docker Compose for development and production."
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"content": "6 Docker Compose Best Practices for Dev and Prod"
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"content": "Tokyo has installed see-through bathroom facilities in two of the city's public parks. The bathrooms are made out of smart glass that turns opaque when the stalls are locked. The use of public toilets in Japan is limited due to negative stereotypes. The new bathrooms are part of a project to redesign Tokyo's public bathrooms so that they can be used by anyone. Video of the new bathrooms is available in the article."
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"content": "Tokyo installed see-through public toilets in a park to let people inspect their cleanliness before using them, at which point the glass turns opaque"
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"content": "Product notifications are crucial, but building the infrastructure to send them can be a costly distraction. Knock makes it simple to deliver the notifications experience your users expect: timely, cross-channel, and duplicate-free.Use Knock’s backend API clients and prebuilt React components to add a plug-and-play notifications engine to any product. It’s easy to manage, always delivers, and supports batching and intelligent routing. Once you’re live, business teams can create and update notifications independently (so you can focus on the next feature).With pay-as-you-go pricing, including 10,000 free notifications per month, it’s simple to get started. If you want to engage users without inundating them with messages, add Knock to your app today."
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"content": "Knock is a Readymade Notifications Engine That Developers Love"
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"content": "Twitter's former head of security has accused the company of negligent security practices. He claims that Twitter misled federal regulators about its safety and that the company fails to properly estimate the number of bots on its platform. About half of Twitter's 7,000 or so full-time employees have access to users' sensitive personal data and internal software. Twitter has failed to delete user data in the past as the records were spread too widely among internal systems to be tracked. The company could face significant fines if the accusations are proven to be correct."
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"content": "Twitter’s former security chief says company lied about bots and safety"
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"content": "The US Army has been researching a technological approach that uses robotics and biohybrid muscle elements. Biohybrid robotics incorporates living organisms into mechanical systems, delivering a new level of agility and flexibility. The research could show the biohybrid engineering community how to grow strong muscular tissue. Muscle tissue is excellent at generating a specific amount of mechanical power at a given moment. By using biological components, the US Army hopes to develop robots capable of going anywhere soldiers can and more."
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"content": "The U.S. Army is Creating Robots With Synthetically Grown Muscle"
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"content": "Insulin is essential for a diabetic, and it can be expensive, especially for those without good insurance. A growing movement of biohackers is trying to build a distributed system of insulin production with the goal of making it affordable. Today, most insulin is produced through genetically engineered bacteria. Commercial insulin production is complicated and expensive due to how it must be scaled up to be financially viable. The Open Insulin Foundation is now looking to scale its operations, with plans for a factory that could produce insulin at around $6 a vial."
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"content": "Open-Source Insulin: Biohackers Aiming For Distributed Production"
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"content": "The supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park is one of the greatest natural threats to human civilization, even though it is not predicted to erupt any time in the next 10,000 years. NASA plans to ensure that the volcano remains dormant by drilling holes into the side of the volcano's lower sides and then pumping high-pressure cold water in and out. The outgoing water would reach temperatures of approximately 350 degrees Celsius and could be used to generate electricity. The plan is only theoretical as there is a lack of data on the risks of drilling into the side of a volcano."
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"content": "NASA Has a $3.46 Billion Plan to Cool Yellowstone and Harvest it for Energy"
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"content": "Tesla is offering Enhanced Autopilot in Australia for roughly half the price of the Full Self-Driving package. Enhanced Autopilot adds automated lane changes, on- and off-ramp navigation, Smart Summon, and AutoPark. It does not include city/town navigation with navigation skills. Enhanced Autopilot still requires the driver to maintain both hands on the wheel at all times."
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"content": "Tesla to start offering 'Enhanced Autopilot' for roughly half the cost of FSD"
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"content": "Building a code search tool? Keep 3 things in mind, says Sourcegraph Devs love building tools for devs. So when your codebase grows and you want to implement code search, you might be inclined to build it yourself.The developers at Sourcegraph built a universal code search as a feature in their platform, and they have some tips to share. They suggest 3 questions you should ask yourself before deciding to build code search in-house. Read the guide right here."
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"content": "Meta has unveiled an advanced generative artificial intelligence system called Make-A-Scene. The system generates images through a combination of text descriptions and freeform sketches. Make-A-Scene is part of a wider research project aimed at exploring how AI can empower creativity. Examples of images generated by Make-A-Scene are available in the article."
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"content": "Meta’s latest generative AI system creates stunning images from sketches and text"
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"content": "Having the perfect job may not be enough for people who need more meaning in their lives."
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"content": "Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?"
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"content": "Many early-stage startups offer stock options as part of their compensation packages. These options give employees the right to purchase company stock at a predetermined fixed price. Exercising options at the wrong time can be costly. This Twitter thread presents some thoughts about what to do with options when leaving a startup."
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"content": "What to do with options after quitting or getting laid off from a startup"
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"content": "Apple has launched the AirPods Pro, a premium version of its wireless earbuds featuring noise-canceling. The earbuds only come in white. Noise-canceling is adjusted up to 200 times per second using a system that is very similar to the noise cancellation system in the new Beats Solo Pro headphones. A transparency mode is available that will allow users to hear their surroundings. The AirPods Pro has a force sensor that is used to control music playback and toggle between noise-canceling and transparency mode. It comes with flexible ear tips. A software audio test is available that can tell the user if they have chosen the right-sized tips by measuring the sound level in the ear and comparing it to what is coming from the speaker driver. The AirPods Pro has around 4.5 hours of continuous listening battery life and is sweat and water-resistant. It is available for pre-order now and will be released on October 30th for $249."
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"content": "Apple announces AirPods Pro with noise cancellation, coming October 30th"
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"content": "Join 2,000+ engineering leaders at Interact: a free, community-driven virtual conference If you’re an engineering leader (or planning to become one), you should save your seat at Interact on October 25th. Interact is a free, virtual conference that brings together thousands of dev leads from over 95 countries. This year’s line-up includes speakers from Shopify, Slack, Atlassian, and Stripe. The event is presented by LinearB and the Dev Interrupted community.Explore engineering challenges. Build your professional network. Become an elite engineering leader.It’s virtual. It's free. It's the best ROI for your time. Grab your free ticket now."
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"content": "Join 2,000+ engineering leaders at Interact: a free, community-driven virtual conference"
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"content": "KidneyX, a public-private partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the American Society of Nephrology, has awarded The Kidney Project a $650,000 prize for its demonstration of a functional prototype of an implantable artificial kidney. The smartphone-sized device combines a hemofilter, which removes waste products and toxins from blood, and a bioreactor, which replicates other kidney functions. It is powered by blood pressure. The device could provide patients with kidney failure complete mobility and better physiological outcomes compared with dialysis."
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"content": "First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants Runs on Blood Pressure"
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"content": "Polar Night Energy has set up the world's first commercial-scale sand battery in a town in western Finland. Sand batteries are towers of sand that store and discharge heat energy. Sand is a relatively inexpensive alternative to other battery materials and it can store heat for months. Polar Night Energy's battery currently powers the central heating system for the town."
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"content": "The world's first operational 'sand battery' can store energy for months"
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"content": "Prisma Client Python is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client. It can be used in any Python backend application. Prisma features full type safety and native support for usage with or without async, recursive and pseudo-recursive types, atomic updates, partial type generation, and more. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and SQL Server."
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"content": "Canadian researchers have reverse-engineered a millimeter-long vessel that pumps fluid just like the exit chamber of a human embryo's heart."
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"content": "Engineers Have Grown a Major Piece of The Human Heart in Miniature, And It Beats"
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"content": "Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS. It features automatic file sharing, automatic port forwarding, built-in support for containerd, and more. Lima has not been tested on ARM processors, but it should work."
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"content": "Lima: Linux-on-Mac"
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"content": "All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. Developers now have access to private repositories with unlimited collaborators. Paid plans are still available for advanced features, enterprise features, or personal support. The price of the paid Team plan is now $4 per user/month."
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"content": "GitHub is now free for teams"
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"content": "Prompt injection attacks involve using malicious inputs to make language models ignore their previous directions. They can be used to leak prompts, which could be an issue in a future where companies might build software around proprietary prompts. Solutions to prevent these attacks are still being researched. Examples of prompt injection attacks are available in the article."
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"content": "Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3"
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"content": "Amazon's new Astro home robot is designed to track behavior to help it perform its surveillance and helper duties. According to leaked documents, its person recognition system is heavily flawed. People who had worked on the project have criticized the robot's navigational abilities and build quality and cited privacy concerns. Astro is supposed to learn over time, so it has to track the humans around it and learn about its environment. It is designed to handle a lot of the data processing on device."
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"content": "Leaked Documents Show How Amazon's Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do"
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"content": "Lost Pixel is an open source visual regression testing tool."
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"content": "Authentication is critical. Getting it right starts with understanding how different types of applications manage login and authentication. This technical guide by FusionAuth covers the key differences between traditional, single page, and mobile app authentication, with detailed workflows for Native Login and OAuth 2. Download the guide for free"
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"content": "Guide: Login and authentication workflows for web, single-page and mobile apps"
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"content": "Moderna, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based vaccine manufacturer has completed phase 1 clinical trials on a COVID-19 vaccine candidate with encouraging early results. The trial had 45 participants, eight who developed neutralizing antibodies at levels seen in patients who had recovered from COVID-19. Phase 1 trials are designed to evaluate the safety of a drug rather than to measure its effectiveness. The only side effect of the vaccine was a redness in the area where the person was injected. Antibodies that the patients developed were effective at limiting viral replication in the lab. Moderna is using a messenger RNA vaccine approach that has never been marketed in the USA. Phase 2 trials are now underway and Moderna expects to begin a phase 3 clinical trial as early as July."
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"content": "Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine shows positive results, moves to larger studies"
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"content": "Elon Musk unveiled a humanoid robot called the Tesla Bot at the end of Tesla's AI Day presentation last week. The robot will be controlled by Tesla's Full Self-Driving computer. It will be 5-foot-8 tall and weigh 125 pounds. The robot will be designed to help people complete dangerous, repetitive, or boring tasks. It can be easily overpowered or outrun. A prototype of the bot will likely be ready by next year. Slides from the presentation, as well as videos of Musk unveiling and explaining the robot, are available in the article."
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"content": "Elon Musk unveils Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that uses vehicle AI"
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"content": "The Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and MIT are collaborating on a project to develop new ways of navigating waterways autonomously. Using autonomous systems would make highly complex port operations safer and more efficient. The Roboats project has developed a 4-meter long electric boat that is steered by a remote computer. The boat is modular, so it can be easily adapted for different purposes. It will still be two to four years before self-steering technology will be ready."
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"content": "Amsterdam tests out electric autonomous boats on its canals"
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"content": "This repository contains a roadmap for people who are looking to become a Go developer in 2019. It gives a general landscape of how one should learn the language and answers the question of ‘what’s next’ if developers are stuck after learning certain skills. The roadmap categorizes skills according to importance, so developers can focus on just the core skills or delve deeper into topics if they wish."
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"content": "Californian scientists have developed a swim controller that can turn regular jellyfish into cyborg speed demons. The device enhances a jellyfish's natural motions using electrical impulses, similar to the way a pacemaker regulates heart rate. Once attached, the cyborg jellyfish can swim almost three times faster than unmodified jellyfish while using only twice the metabolic energy. The device doesn't harm the jellyfish and there are no negative effects after being removed. Scientists hope to be able to use cyborg jellyfish to carry sensors into the ocean to gather data from hard-to-reach locations."
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"content": "Scientists create cyborg jellyfish with swimming superpowers"
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"content": "Pico's new headset has a Qualcomm XR2 processor, an Adreno 650 GPU, 8GB of RAM, and three hours of battery."
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"content": "ByteDance's Pico reveals its latest VR headset as it aims to compete with Meta Quest 2"
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"content": "A 'Sonification' project from NASA's Chandra X-ray Center translates telescope data into sound, letting us hear some of the most recognizable features in the sky. Many images of the cosmos are composite images of different elements or types of light to make it easier to visualize structures. The project produced three sonifications, each created with slightly different techniques and producing different sounds and qualities. A 3-minute video is available in the article that plays a sample of the sonifications."
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"content": "NASA \"Sonification\" project lets us hear the cosmos"
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"content": "A video of a massive alligator went viral on Twitter after it went for a walk on a golf course during hurricane Eta. The 12-second video is available in the article. While the exact size of the gator can't be determined from the videos, the largest gator on record in Florida is 14 feet, 3-1/2 inches long. It is unusual to see gators roaming during a storm as they tend to hunker down as storms move in. Golf courses are favorable habitats for gators as they provide ample amounts of water and there is prey such as birds and fish."
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"content": "A Giant Gator Invaded a Florida Golf Course During Hurricane Eta"
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"content": "A new social media network called WT:Social has been stealthily launched by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. WT:Social was previously a news-focused site, but it was revamped and has slowly been onboarding new users since last month. Its focus is on removing bad actors, editing misleading stories, and giving people the choice to dictate which stories get presented to them. WT:Social will allow users to build niche communities called SubWikis that will rely on volunteers to moderate and enforce standards of content. The platform survives on donations and is ad-free. There is currently a waitlist to join WT:Social. Users can skip the queue by pledging $12.99 a month or $100 for a year. None of the data generated on the site will be sold."
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"content": "Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Launches Social Network"
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"content": "New photos of Google's Pixel 4 have been leaked, showing that the device will have a large bezel on the top of the phone. The images show that the bezel will cover a variety of sensors and front-facing cameras. It is rumored that the Pixel 4 will come with a radar-based motion sensing technology called Project Soli, which requires more space, explaining the bezel. The Pixel 4 was announced in June after images were leaked onto the internet."
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"content": "Google is testing a new homepage with a row of information cards at the bottom. The cards currently show weather information, trending searches, viewing recommendations, stocks, local events, and COVID news. Users have the option to turn off the cards. A screenshot showing the cards on the new homepage is available in the article."
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"content": "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."
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"content": "Boeing employee: I would not put my family on a Max plane right now"
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"content": "A new bill dubbed the ‘Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act’ is currently being considered by Democrats in Congress. The bill states that large platforms, tech companies with an annual global revenue of $25,000,000,000 or more, may not be affiliated with a financial institution. This would mean that Facebook would not be able to continue with its Libra cryptocurrency project. It is unclear how this will affect companies like PayPal if their annual revenue reaches $25 billion. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin expressed concerns over the Libra cryptocurrency, saying that it could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers. The bill has not yet been introduced to Congress, so its contents are not final."
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"content": "House Democrats are considering a bill to ban Facebook from the finance industry"
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"content": "A company called Engineered Arts is making extremely life-like robots. This is a video showing them off, it's actually pretty incredible, especially how smoothly the robots blink."
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"content": "Could these robots be more realistic?"
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"content": "To make quantum computing more practical will require many more qubits. Several researchers recently announced three types of high-quality qubits produced in silicon, a highly-scalable technology. The approaches will allow for many qubits to be fitted on a single silicon chip. Silicon qubits have always been error-prone, but the new approaches manage to produce gates with a fidelity rate well above the threshold needed for error correction. This article looks at the new studies and discusses the state of each project."
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"content": "Silicon-based qubits take a big leap forward"
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"content": "Scientists at Battelle Memorial Institute have developed a brain implant that was able to restore both movement and touch in a patient with paralysis caused by a brain injury. The patient that received the implant was able to do things like swipe a credit card and play Guitar Hero again. The device is able to tap into faint brain signals for touch and then amplify these signals. It also reads brain activity and translates signals into movements."
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"content": "Brain implant and signal decoder have done the impossible and reversed paralysis"
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"content": "This repository contains a framework for software engineering managers to have meaningful conversations with their direct reports around the expectations of each position and how to plan for the next level in their career ladder. It uses radar charts to show the different perspectives and expectations of each position. The framework should be used as a way to guide meaningful career conversations and not as a checklist for promoting people."
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"content": "Engineering Ladders"
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"content": "Facebook Dating has launched in the US, a year after it started testing in other countries. Users 18 and over will start seeing a new tab within the Facebook mobile app where they can create a separate profile and meet people who share similar interests according to their main Facebook profiles. The app will make sure users don't match with friends unless they choose to use the 'secret crush' feature, which matches users if they both select each other. Facebook Dating is free and there are no ads or in-app purchases. There is Instagram integration and a feature where users can alert others to the location of their dates for safety. It will be launched in Europe later in the year and is currently available in 20 countries."
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"content": "Facebook Dating launches in the United States today"
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"content": "Mozilla has launched Firefox 90. It features improved print-to-PDF functionality, individual exceptions to HTTPS-only mode, a page to help identify compatibility issues with third-party applications, and SmartBlock. SmartBlock can protect users from cross-site tracking while making sure that site logins still function. The new browser is significantly faster. Details about how Mozilla tests for browser speed are available in the article."
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"content": "Firefox 89 delivered more speed—today’s Firefox 90 adds SmartBlock 2.0"
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"content": "Apollo Global Management will buy Verizon Media Group for $5 billion. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, which will be rebranded to just 'Yahoo'. Online media brands that were owned by Yahoo and AOL like TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, and Engadget now belong to Apollo. The sale signals that Verizon is no longer interested in media. It will instead focus on its wireless networks and other internet provider businesses."
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"content": "Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5 billion"
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"content": "Hackers who obtain username and password data may sometimes need to also bypass two-factor authentication. There are a growing number of services that help hackers bypass this barrier by using automated bots. When a hacker is ready to enter an account, they can activate a bot that calls the victim and convinces them to reply with a legitimate two-factor code that the hacker sends at the same time. The bots can cost a few hundred a month to hire, with vendors boasting thousands of subscribers."
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"content": "The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes"
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"content": "Setapp is an app subscription service for macOS and iOS, the place where you will discover ways to solve every little task — from video editing to coding to writing — and automate your daily routines. Use the promo code tldr_newsletter to get a 10% discount for an annual subscription."
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"content": "Malaria researchers have invented a promising blueprint for a vaccine with properties similar to the novel RNA-based vaccine for Covid-19. Making a vaccine for the disease has been challenging due to a protein produced by its associated parasite. The new vaccine design allows the body to produce T-cells even when the protein is present. It has not been tested yet on humans, but studies have demonstrated high levels of protection in mice."
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"content": "First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech"
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"content": "The Cyberspace Administration of China has accused Didi of illegally collecting users' personal data and ordered app stores to remove its Chuxing app from their libraries. Didi has 377 million users in China alone. The company went public on June 30 as one of the biggest Chinese IPOs since Alibaba. Customers who have downloaded the app can still use it normally. China's regulators have been cracking down on tech companies over the past several weeks, focusing on anti-competitive practices, inconsistent pricing, and incorrect data handling."
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"content": "The EU has passed a directive that will force all consumer electronics manufacturers who sell their products in Europe to have a USB-C port by the end of 2024."
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"content": "EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024"
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"content": "In 2014, Dropbox migrated from Mercurial to Git to improve local performance and consolidate repositories that hosted backend code. Git performance issues grew linearly as the monorepo grew. With a small wrapper of custom code, the engineering team was able to speed up Git operations without fragmenting the unified and growing repository. The process of growing the repository and optimizing it is detailed in the article."
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"content": "Speeding up a Git monorepo at Dropbox with <200 lines of code"
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"content": "Ethereum's London hard fork has been activated. The network will now algorithmically decide the transaction fee based on the overall demand on the network. Users will still be able to jump the queue by tipping. Another change in the code will double the block size to smooth out spikes in demand and to help gas fees stay stable. While there will be twice the number of blocks, the upgrade has been designed so that the protocol only wants the blocks to be half full. The London fork also paves the way for Ethereum 2.0, which will see the network switch from the proof-of-work mining system to proof-of-stake."
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"content": "Tesla’s Autopilot system was engaged during a fatal crash that occurred in Florida. This is the third fatal crash in the US that has involved the driver-assistance system. A report showed that the driver had been traveling over the speed limit when they turned on Autopilot mode and that they removed their hands from the steering wheel almost immediately after Autopilot was engaged. Tesla claims that its Autopilot was safe to use as long as drivers were attentive and ready to take control at any moment."
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"content": "Third fatal Tesla Autopilot crash renews questions about system"
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"content": "Common Business-Oriented Language was designed specifically for business use and it is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the world's economy. It continues to distinguish itself from other programming languages due to its inherent ability to handle vast amounts of critical data stored on the largest servers. This repository contains training materials and labs for a beginner’s course on COBOL."
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"content": "DNS Reaper is a subdomain takeover tool that can be used as an attacker, defender, or bug hunting tool."
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"content": "Google has announced a gaming-related press conference during the Game Developers Conference in March, following the end of its 4 month trial of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey on Project Stream. A GIF was released by Google with the words ‘Gather around’ and the date of the conference, March 19. Project Stream allowed users to play a AAA console title within Chrome Browser as long as they had a 25 Mbps connection. If the conference is about Project Stream, it is likely they will announce how third-party developers can bring their games to the streaming platform."
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"content": "Google hosting ‘Gather around’ press event at the Game Developers Conference next month"
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"content": "A new planet with a mass greater than 10 Jupiters combined has been discovered in an area that theoretically shouldn't have any planets. The planet was found in the b Centauri binary system, a solar system with a mass of nearly 10 suns. Every other planet discovered so far was found in solar systems that weighed less than three solar masses. The discovery implies an astounding diversity of exoplanets and will require scientists to reconsider what conditions allow the formation of planets."
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"content": "A Huge Alien World Is Forcing Astronomers to Rethink How Planets Form"
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"content": "Celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Garner, Miley Cyrus, and others will be helping to bring back some graduation excitement for those who won't get to experience traditional milestones this year. #Graduation2020 is a streaming event hosted by Facebook that will be available on Facebook Watch on May 15. Other activities will be available in the week leading up to the event, with Facebook and Instagram rolling out a variety of graduation-themed features."
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"content": "Oprah Winfrey and Miley Cyrus Will Help Class of 2020 Celebrate on Facebook's #Graduation2020"
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"content": "The Earth BioGenome Project is a $4.7 billion \"moonshot for biology\" that aims to sequence the genomes of 1.5 million species. Less than 3,500 species are currently sequenced, and only about 100 of those are at reference quality. Harris Lewin, chair of the project, believes that the project could be as transformational for biology as the Human Genome Project. He says \"Having the roadmap, the blueprints...will be a tremendous resource for new discoveries, understanding the rules of life, how evolution works, new approaches for the conservation of rare and endangered species, and...new resources for researchers in agricultural and medical fields.\""
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"content": "DoorDash is opening a temporary kitchen to make meals for six restaurants in San Jose, California. The food will be available for pick up and delivery. The trial will run until November. Ghost kitchens have allowed many restaurants to expand their footprint in a low-cost and flexible way. The business model has been successful in India and the UK. Using ghost kitchens will help DoorDash take a larger portion of restaurant sales. Food delivery companies are evolving as they try to expand with the hopes of reaching profitability one day."
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"content": "DoorDash isn’t just delivering meals—it’s making them, too"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Git User Switch allows developers to switch user, email, and signingKey with ease. A GIF demo is available that shows how it works."
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"content": "YouTube's track record with artists has been complicated at best in the past. Artists have previously complained about royalties and copyright violations on the platform. The current situation is better for artists, with new royalty deals and more ways for artists to engage their fans. Google has a track record of not sticking to projects, with many previous abandoned music projects in its library. Getting the right videos into its Music app can be difficult, as YouTube has a lot of content, not all that could be suitable for a music app. YouTube already has a large head start in the market, it just has to figure out how to help people discover new music and keep them from leaving when they do."
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"content": "Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Microsoft has rolled out passwordless authentication for all users. Users will now be able to sign in to their Microsoft accounts using the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or an SMS/email verification code. Microsoft has been working on passwordless authentication for years. Passwords are often reused and can be more easily compromised. Other tech companies like Google and Apple are also working towards less reliance on passwords."
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"content": "Microsoft accounts can now go fully passwordless"
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"role": "user",
"content": "China is planning on building a $160 million deep sea base at the bottom of the South China Sea. Scientists say that due to the immense pressure, this will be even harder than building a space station. The base will be run by AI and will be used to launch missions to explore the ocean floor, which is currently 99% unexplored. China is also planning on building the first manned deep sea station about 2 miles below the surface and 20 floating nuclear power plants to support commercial and military activities starting in 2020. President Xi Jinping is urging Chinese scientists to be daring, saying \"There is no road in the deep sea, we do not need to chase after other countries, we are the road.\" He declared that China is on a \"march into the ocean to accelerate the build-up of maritime power\"."
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"content": "Beijing plans an AI Atlantis for the South China Sea – without a human in sight"
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"content": "Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers and plans to roll them out around 2023. It is also ramping up its efforts to build mobile processors for its Pixel smartphones and other devices. Google's new CPUs and mobile processors are based on the blueprints of Arm chips. Many tech companies are racing to build their own semiconductors to differentiate their offerings. Building chips requires massive investment and long-term commitments, and there is limited production capacity."
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"content": "Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops"
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"role": "user",
"content": "It appears that the Chromium 73 update released yesterday included an update to the list of default search options, which now includes the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo. The search engine is now available as an option in around 60 markets. Another privacy search engine, French-based Qwant, has also been added, but only in its home market, France. Pro-privacy search engines have been growing steadily in popularity in the last few years, and DuckDuckGo has recently received outside investment in order to scale its efforts and increase in size. Google has also finally released the Duck.com domain-name to DuckDuckGo, where it previously had it pointing back to Google.com."
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"content": "Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets"
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"content": "Are you scared to look at your AWS bill every month? If you’re staring at your AWS bill wondering what’s going on, you’re not alone. Our cloud cost management experts help companies control their AWS spend with cost optimization and contract negotiation services.We’ve fixed enough AWS bills to create a few strongly held beliefs on what makes a company great at cloud cost management — and how to help organizations reach a higher level of cloud cost maturity over time. These principles and practices guide us in building our cost management services and throughout our work with our clients. Learn more."
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"content": "Are you scared to look at your AWS bill every month?"
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"role": "user",
"content": "New Relic's State of the Java Ecosystem Report is based on data gathered from millions of applications providing performance data. Read it here to get an in-depth look at one of today's most popular programming languages."
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"content": "2022 State of the Java Ecosystem Report"
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"role": "user",
"content": "This repository contains a collection of various deep learning architectures, models, and tips. Each topic is divided into subsections for TensorFlow and PyTorch in Jupyter Notebooks."
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"content": "Deep Learning Models"
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"role": "user",
"content": "A 39-year-old man who recently experienced sudden heart failure received a total artificial heart (TAH) from the surgeons at the Duke University Hospital. The TAH was developed by French company CARMAT. It mimics the human heart and gives the recipient more independence after surgery. The patient will have to carry an almost nine-pound bag containing a controller and two battery packs that work for four hours before requiring charging. The TAH is approved for use in Europe and has received primary approvals from the FDA for use in the US."
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"content": "First Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted In the US"
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"content": "Amazon says that it plans on opening as many as 3,000 of its cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores by the year 2021. Jeff Bezos envisions Amazon Go stores coming in many different configurations with some serving freshly made meals while others look more like a cashierless 7-Eleven with limited grocery selections and pre-made food options. Amazon reportedly plans on having 10 stores open by the end of the year, 50 locations in major cities by next year, and then an exponential growth in locations in 2020 and 2021, so long as it doesn't hit any roadblocks."
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"content": "Amazon reportedly planning 3,000 cashier-less Go stores by 2021"
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"role": "user",
"content": "A new backdoor written from scratch for systems running Windows, macOS, or Linux has been uncovered. SysJoker is estimated to have been released in the second half of last year. It remained undetected by virtually all malware scanning engines until recently. Several factors indicate that it was developed by an advanced threat actor with significant resources. SysJoker is likely after specific targets with the goal of espionage and a possibility of a ransomware attack in later stages."
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"content": "Backdoor for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected until now"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Pinterest is preparing for IPO as early as April. It's expected to IPO for $12 billion, which is the valuation they last raised money at. They made $1 billion in revenue this year, and announced in September that they had 250 million monthly users."
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"content": "Pinterest is talking to bankers and has hired a key exec as it readies itself for a 2019 IPO"
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"content": "Pfizer has started stage one clinical trials on an oral pill designed to be an early intervention for Covid-19. The pill has demonstrated potent in-vitro antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2. It can be used with other antivirals to create a treatment that complements vaccination. The pill is a protease inhibitor. It binds to a viral enzyme to prevent the virus from replicating in the cell. More information about the clinical trials will be shared on April 6."
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"content": "Pfizer trials new pill that could stop early-stage Covid in its tracks"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Soft robots could one day be used for a wide variety of applications, for example, space exploration, surgery, rescue operations, and much more. They are made of squishy materials that enable them to approximate biological functions. It is expected that the market for soft robots will reach $2.16 billion in 2024. Soft robots have flaws, such as being slow to power up, but researchers are developing workarounds to these issues."
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"content": "Why ‘soft robots’ have NASA, doctors, and tech whizzes so excited"
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"content": "A team at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan has set a new record for data transmission by sending 1.02 petabits per second over 51.7 kilometers. A 0.125 mm diameter multi-core fiber with wavelength division multiplexing that sent a total of 801 parallel wavelength channels was used for the experiment. Various other optimizations, such as using four cores, signal boosting, and decoding technologies were also used. The feat was achieved using an optical fiber network similar to those used currently for internet infrastructure, making future upgrades to this technology easier."
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"content": "Researchers Just Set a New Record For Data Transmission Speed"
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"content": "Last year, nearly 400 million people experienced dengue, a painful viral disease. An outbreak throughout Southeast Asia is guaranteed every rainy season. Previous efforts to control outbreaks have involved trapping infected mosquitoes. The World Mosquito Program is cultivating and releasing mosquitoes that have been infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia. Wolbachia occurs naturally in many insects, but it is not common in the mosquitoes that carry dengue. The bacterium can be passed down to future generations. It stops the mosquitoes from transmitting arboviruses such as dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. A 75 percent reduction in dengue cases was seen in communities where the Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were released. The WMP deployed the infected mosquitoes in Brazil and saw a 70-75 percent reduction in cases of chikungunya. It is theoretically possible to use Wolbachia to wipe out dengue entirely."
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"content": "Infecting Mosquitoes With Bacteria Could Have A Big Payoff"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Imgur has been acquired by MediaLab. The image-sharing site reaches 300 million people and is home to one of the largest single independent communities online. MediaLab owns a range of internet brands, including Whisper, Kik, and WorldStarHipHop. Its resources and shared services will help the Imgur team add new features and tools and help grow the site."
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Celebrating Imgur's Next Chapter"
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"content": "This article is part of a series that discusses interview questions that have been asked at Google in the past, with the other articles discussing dynamic programming, matrix exponentiation, and query synonymity. Interview questions should be designed so employers can make a decision of whether a candidate is worth hiring. The Ratio Finder question was chosen because it was a little easier, but still showed the candidates' strengths and weaknesses. Candidates were asked to design a system to convert between two units, for example, hands to light-years. While many will start thinking of a solution to the problem, strong candidates would think about how the program could fail. The success of the candidates depends on their ability to plan forward for potential problems, how complete the solution is, and what ideas they have to improve the code design."
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"content": "Google Interview Problems: Ratio Finder"
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"role": "user",
"content": "This is a tool that lets you demo over 50 free to download fonts for your terminal. They're all fixed-width, designed for programming, and were optimized while writing C or C++."
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"content": "Programming Fonts"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin, with a picture of a dog for a logo. At one point it was worth $2 billion. Its popularity has stumped experts. The coin is based on the doge meme and it started off as a joke aimed at the bizarre world of crypto and bitcoin's multiple derivatives. It was created by replacing 'bitcoin' with 'doge' in the bitcoin code, along with some other changes like increasing the maximum amount of coins and making the coins easier to mine. After it was created, the Reddit community pushed it into popularity very quickly."
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"content": "Dogecoin: The meme that somehow became a real cryptocurrency"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Chip Huyen used interviews from Glassdoor in order to answer the question of what percentage of people who attended machine learning interviews received an offer, as well as what percentage of people accepted the offer. While Glassdoor data suffered from many biases, it was hoped that the volume of data helped to smooth out the noise. 15,897 reviews from 27 major tech companies were analyzed. It was found that the difficulty of interviews rose depending on the level of expertise required. 18.83 percent of candidates at Google received offers, with 70 percent of applicants accepting these offers. There was a high correlation between onsite offers and offer acceptance rate. Companies tended to select candidates more often through referrals for senior roles, whereas candidates for junior roles were sourced mainly through campus recruiting. Candidates who were interviewed for junior positions were more likely to report a better experience than ones who interviewed for more senior roles."
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"content": "What Glassdoor interview reviews reveal about tech hiring cultures"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is the bad kind of cholesterol that results in a greater risk of cardiovascular disease. Scientists have successfully used CRISPR base editors to turn off the gene that produces LDL in monkeys. It will still be a while before the treatment can be tested in humans. If successful, this could result in a single treatment approach for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease."
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"content": "Researchers Fix Cholesterol in Monkeys Through CRISPR Gene Editing"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Storyliving by Disney is a new part of the company's theme park division that plans to develop a series of communities for residential living. Its first location will be a community of 1,900 housing units in California's Coachella Valley. Disney is partnering with third-party developers on the project and will not own, build, or sell the homes. It will only manage the branding and marketing of the communities. A video with concept art of the communities is available in the article."
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"content": "Disney is developing planned communities for fans who never want to leave its clutches"
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"role": "user",
"content": "El Salvador plans to build a Bitcoin City near a volcano along the Gulf of Fonseca. The city will be shaped like a coin and have its own geothermal power plant. There will be no capital gains, income, payroll, or property taxes in the city, only value-added tax. El Salvador created a $1 billion US Bitcoin bond to pay for energy and mining infrastructure and to buy more bitcoin. The country will start selling its crypto holdings in five years and pay an extra dividend to bondholders."
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"content": "El Salvador plans to create an entire city based on Bitcoin"
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"role": "user",
"content": "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."
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"content": "OpenAI introduces Jukebox, a new AI model that generates genre-specific music with lyrics"
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"content": "Move Fast and Don’t Break Privacy - Webinar Businesses are collecting, storing, and analyzing more data than ever. However, not all data is created equal. Some data, like sensitive user data, is special and requires better protection than other data.Join Skyflow’s Head of Developer Relations, Sean Falconer, to learn how leading companies like Netflix and Apple use zero trust data privacy vaults to protect and secure sensitive data. This webinar will introduce and demo Skyflow, a data privacy vault delivered as an API, and answer live questions.Join us July 6th at 10am PT for ‘Move Fast and Don’t Break Privacy’. Register now."
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"role": "user",
"content": "Portland's citizens will unknowingly be part of a trial run of Sidewalk Lab's Replica Software. The software will collect location data from smartphones, anonymize the data, and then provide reports to the city on traffic patterns, the impact of ride-sharing on traffic, and other location-reliant information. It is expected that the project will cost at least $457,000, but the information provided will hopefully be able to help the city improve its infrastructure and policy."
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"content": "Portland quietly launches mobile location data project with Alphabet’s controversial Sidewalk Labs"
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"role": "user",
"content": "Google Search, Youtube, and Google Cloud all experienced intermittent downtime for about an hour, due to their traffic being misrouted to locations in China, Russia, and Nigeria. This incident was due to BGP's flawed design, BGP (the protocol that defines how internet packets are routed) was designed to be a chain of trust between well-meaning ISPs and universities that blindly believe the information they receive. However, malicious actors can sometimes take avantage of it to hijack traffic (hackers hijacked Amazon's Route 53 DNS traffic in April to steal a bunch of Bitcoin). All data was encrypted, and Google does not believe that this was the result of a malicious attack, but they are investigating the issue."
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"content": "Google traffic misdirected to China & Russia today, resulted in downtime for some services"
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"content": "People who live in Venice experience regular flooding caused by high tides. The city recently installed flood barriers that would prevent this. These barriers were trialed in July, during good weather, but the trials didn't involve raising all 78 gates that have been installed around the city. During high tide, the gates rise to form a dam, stopping the sea from flooding the city. The frequency and severity of extreme high tides have been increasing in the city in recent years, with businesses struggling to recover after repeated flooding. The barriers went up against a 135-centimeter high tide on October 3, protecting the city against flooding. It was a historic day for the city as the barriers were declared a success."
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"content": "Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years"
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"content": "UCLA space scientists have discovered thick ice deposits on the moon. New observations suggest that there may be a massive reservoir of frozen water beneath the surface of the moon. Due to the spin axes of the moon and Mercury, many areas never see the sun, so permanently shadowed regions have thick ice deposits. Both Mercury and the moon are covered by impact craters. When investigating the craters on Mercury, it was found that the craters near the poles were shallower, which was later found to be caused by the accumulation of ice deposits. The formation of the ice deposits on the moon suggests that the deposits may be older than the ice on Mercury."
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"content": "Moon has more water ice than previously thought"
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"content": "Snap's next-gen Spectacles will be able to layer Snapchat lenses onto the surrounding environment without using a smartphone's camera. The glasses are geared towards developers and creators, who Snap hopes will create new lens-style experiences for them. Snap will announce the AR Spectacles in May at its developer conference. The company has also revived its plans to build a selfie drone, investing $20 million into Zero Zero Robotics."
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"content": "Snap Plans Hardware Push With AR Spectacles, Drone"
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