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BIG TECH & STARTUPS
TESLA SHARES MORE FOOTAGE OF OPTIMUS WALKING IMPROVEMENTS (4 MINUTE
READ) [5]
Tesla's latest clip of its Optimus humanoid robot shows it smoothly
walking around one of its testing facilities. The robot can currently
walk at around 0.6 meters per second, a 30% speed boost compared to
the robot's last appearance. Tesla is aiming for the robot to be
eventually able to walk up to five miles per hour. A link to the video
is available in the article.
GOOGLE SAYS MICROSOFT OFFERED TO SELL BING TO APPLE IN 2018, BUT SEARCH-QUALITY ISSUES GOT IN THE WAY (3 MINUTE READ) [6]
A document from Google's antitrust case against the US Justice
Department revealed that Microsoft offered to sell its Bing search
engine to Apple several times over the past few decades, with Apple
declining the offer over quality issues every time. Microsoft's almost
$100 billion investment into Bing over 20 years was not enough to
create a product comparable to Google's. Google's case centers over
whether the company has a monopoly in web search. Microsoft's CEO
previously testified that he has focused every year of his tenure as
CEO to see if Apple would be open to a default search arrangement for
Bing.
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SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY
FIRST PRIVATE MOON LANDER TOUCHES DOWN ON LUNAR SURFACE TO MAKE
HISTORY (6 MINUTE READ) [7]
Odysseus landed successfully on the Moon on 22 February. Built by
Intuitive Machines, Odysseus is the first private lunar lander and the
first US lunar lander since 1972. It is currently around 300
kilometers from the lunar south pole, an area that may contain ice.
The lander experienced a malfunction that required a software patch
hours before landing. It will collect data for up to seven days until
night falls at the landing site.
HOW DOES BLUESKY WORK? (17 MINUTE READ) [8]
BlueSky (the company) is using BlueSky (the microblogging
application) to prove the viability of the Authenticated Transfer
Protocol (atproto), a federated protocol for large-scale distributed
social applications. atproto can't be controlled by any one
organization due to its federated nature - various parts of the system
that communicate with each other can have multiple people running
them. This article takes a close look at how atproto works, explaining
its structure, how the system is supposed to work, potential issues,
and more.
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usage, and inheritance structure. Each Figma variable has a direct
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packed with best practices, unified prop names, and consistent design
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REACT STRICT DOM (GITHUB REPO) [11]
React Strict DOM aims to improve and standardize the development of
styled React components for web and native. It integrates React DOM
and StyleX to improve the speed and efficiency of React development
without compromising performance, reliability, or quality. The tool is
used at Meta to ship features faster to more platforms with fewer
engineers.
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MISCELLANEOUS
LESSONS FROM MY THIRD YEAR RUNNING A SAAS (8 MINUTE READ) [12]
This post summarizes a developer's learnings from three years of
running a SaaS app. In three years, their product had grown from a toy
to something people were paying for. The developer learned to stop
being afraid of success and calmed down on their software releases and
content marketing. They experimented with onboarding, which massively
paid off, and started to understand their own product philosophy. The
developer learned that, once their product became sustainable, they
only had to focus on quality.
APPLE EXPLORED THESE NOTCH AND DYNAMIC ISLAND DESIGNS FOR IPHONES (2
MINUTE READ) [13]
Apple introduced the Dynamic Island with its iPhone 14 Pro models in
2022. The feature makes the space surrounding the front camera and
Face ID sensors more useful compared to the notch in previous models.
Apple explored a variety of ideas for the feature before arriving at
its current design. This article looks at some of the ideas Apple
considered and presents mock-ups of what they might have looked like.
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Reddit has clearly listed one of its subreddits on its S-1 form as a
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CAN A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IMPLEMENT TIME TRAVEL? (10 MINUTE READ)
[17]
Mariposa is a toy programming language that claims to implement time
travel as part of its feature set.
JSON LINES (WEBSITE) [18]
The JSON Lines text format, also called newline-delimited JSON, is a
format for storing structured data that may be processed one record at
a time that works well with Unix-style text processing tools and shell pipelines.
META'S NEW LLM-BASED TEST GENERATOR IS A SNEAK PEEK TO THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT (10 MINUTE READ) [19]
Meta's new test generator recommends fully-formed software
improvements that are verified to be both correct and an improvement
to current code coverage.
AI WON'T EAT YOUR JOB, BUT IT WILL EAT YOUR SALARY (16 MINUTE READ)
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