v1.2.0

README.md

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 ---
 annotations_creators:
+
 - other
-language_creators:
+  language_creators:
 - other
-languages:
+  languages:
 - en
-licenses:
+  licenses:
 - mit
-multilinguality:
+  multilinguality:
 - monolingual
-pretty_name: tldr_news
-size_categories:
+  pretty_name: tldr_news
+  size_categories:
 - 1K<n<10K
-source_datasets:
+  source_datasets:
 - original
-task_categories:
+  task_categories:
 - summarization
 - text2text-generation
 - text-generation
-task_ids:
+  task_ids:
 - news-articles-headline-generation
 - text-simplification
 - language-modeling
+
 ---
 
 # Dataset Card for `tldr_news`
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ task_ids:
 The `tldr_news` dataset was constructed by collecting a daily tech newsletter (available
 [here](https://tldr.tech/newsletter)). Then, for every piece of news, the `headline` and its corresponding `
 content` were extracted.
+Also, the newsletter contain different sections. We add this extra information to every piece of news.
 
 Such a dataset can be used to train a model to generate a headline from a input piece of text.
 
@@ -83,8 +86,9 @@ An example is as follows:
 
 ```
 {
-    "headline": "World-first 'impossible' rotating detonation engine fires up",
-    "content": "A team in Florida working with the US Air Force has built an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine. It uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create a super-efficient thrust. Most engines use combustion, which is a relatively slow and controlled process compared to detonation. Detonation releases significantly more energy than combustion with significantly less fuel, but detonation engines have proven to be incredibly difficult to build and sustain. A 20-second slow-motion video of the rocket firing is available."
+  "headline": "Cana Unveils Molecular Beverage Printer, a ‘Netflix for Drinks’ That Can Make Nearly Any Type of Beverage ",
+  "content": "Cana has unveiled a drink machine that can synthesize almost any drink. The machine uses a cartridge that contains flavor compounds that can be combined to create the flavor of nearly any type of drink. It is about the size of a toaster and could potentially save people from throwing hundreds of containers away every month by allowing people to create whatever drinks they want at home. Around $30 million was spent building Cana’s proprietary hardware platform and chemistry system. Cana plans to start full production of the device and will release pricing by the end of February.",
+  "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"
 }
 ```
 
@@ -92,6 +96,7 @@ An example is as follows:
 
 - `headline (str)`: the piece of news' headline
 - `content (str)`: the piece of news
+- `category (str)`: newsletter section
 
 ### Data Splits
 
@@ -118,8 +123,8 @@ couple of normalization steps:
 
 1. The headlines initially contain an estimated read time in parentheses; we stripped this information from the
    headline.
-2. Some headlines are just a technology/repo/software name. We filtered out such samples if this name was not mention in
-   the news content.
+2. Some news are sponsored and thus do not belong to any newsletter section. We create an additional category "Sponsor"
+   for such samples.
 
 #### Who are the source language producers?
 

dataset_infos.json

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+{"all": {"description": "The `tldr_news` dataset was constructed by collecting a daily tech newsletter (available at \nhttps://tldr.tech/newsletter). Then for every piece of news, the \"headline\" and its corresponding \"content\" were \ncollected. Such a dataset can be used to train a model to generate a headline from a input piece of text.\n", "citation": "", "homepage": "", "license": "", "features": {"headline": {"dtype": "string", "id": null, "_type": "Value"}, "content": {"dtype": "string", "id": null, "_type": "Value"}, "category": {"num_classes": 5, "names": ["Sponsor", "Big Tech & Startups", "Science and Futuristic Technology", "Programming, Design & Data Science", "Miscellaneous"], "id": null, "_type": "ClassLabel"}}, "post_processed": null, "supervised_keys": null, "task_templates": null, "builder_name": "tldr_news_dataset", "config_name": "all", "version": {"version_str": "1.2.0", "description": null, "major": 1, "minor": 2, "patch": 0}, "splits": {"train": {"name": "train", "num_bytes": 4000442, "num_examples": 7138, "dataset_name": "tldr_news_dataset"}, "test": {"name": "test", "num_bytes": 443889, "num_examples": 794, "dataset_name": "tldr_news_dataset"}}, "download_checksums": {"https://github.com/JulesBelveze/tldr_news/blob/main/1.2.0.tar.gz?raw=true": {"num_bytes": 1706037, "checksum": "191eecc8ac35c86b8ca726753a85b8c5909890be8d8fade3c23ad41bbaef7a78"}}, "download_size": 1706037, "post_processing_size": null, "dataset_size": 4444331, "size_in_bytes": 6150368}}

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+[{"headline": "Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed ", "content": "Facebook has released a report that shows what content was most widely viewed by Americans between April and June. It contains sections showing the top 20 domains, links, pages, and posts in terms of views. A companion guide that describes how the data was gathered and analyzed was also released. Facebook released the data in response to reports that posts from right-wing sources had the most interaction. The top posts only account for less than 0.1 percent of the content viewed by US users, and the data only accounts for public posts, not posts made in private groups. A link to the report is available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Proof of concept verifies physics that could enable quantum batteries ", "content": "A quantum effect called superabsorption allows a collection of molecules to absorb light more efficiently than if each molecule were acting individually. Researchers have used this phenomenon to create a proof-of-concept quantum battery. The larger the battery was, the faster it charged, demonstrating superabsorption at work. Quantum battery research could result in fast-charging electric vehicles or energy storage systems that can deal with bursts of energy.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "SpaceX Starship prototype explodes in test again ", "content": "A SpaceX Starship rocket prototype has exploded during a pressure test. It was the second to explode in four months. Founder Elon Musk has laughed off the incident, saying that it was fine. A video of the incident is available in the article. SpaceX is working to reach Earth orbit with a Starship prototype within six months, and with human passengers by next year. It plans to use Starship for planetary commercial flights.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "scalene (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Scalene is a high-performance CPU and memory profiler for Python. It is fast as it uses sampling instead of instrumentation or relying on Python's tracing facilities. Scalene performs CPU profiling at the line level, providing a high level of detail. The line tracking can also identify code responsible for memory growth.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "'Businesses Will Not Be Able to Hide': Spy Satellites May Give Edge From Above ", "content": "With the rise of cheap small \"Cube Satellites\", startups are now taking photos and infrared images of factories, retail parking lots, oil tankers, and more and selling these images to hedge funds and banks looking for an edge in gauging economic activity. Governments and human rights groups use the technology as well to track illegal mining and logging operations and large-scale home demolitions. Human Rights Watch says \"This is why we are so committed to these technologies. They make it that much harder to hide large-scale abuses.\" A small 10 pound satellite now costs only about $3 million.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Alphabet and SoftBank\u2019s solar-powered drone provides first LTE connection ", "content": "Alphabet and SoftBank recently announced that they successfully ran a stable LTE connection from a solar-powered drone 62,000 feet high. The connection was used to make an international video call between Japan and the US. Alphabet's Loon provided the communications payload while SoftBank's HAPSMobile built the aircraft. The Sunglider is an enormous solar-powered drone designed to fly for months at a time. It looks like a single massive wing powered by 10 propellers. A short video showing the test flight is available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "SQLFlow (GitHub Repo)", "content": "SQLFlow connects SQL and Tensorflow together so that SQL can be used for machine learning. SQL is a popular data storage solution, so implementing machine learning capabilities to work with it allows more engineers to have access to AI technology. Users are encouraged to provide feedback to contribute to the project.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Secret to keeping ice cream creamy (not crunchy)", "content": "Ice cream develops a crunchy texture if left out of the freezer for too long due to overly large ice crystals. Scientists from the University of Tennessee have developed a technique that involves using a plant-based additive to stop the formation of these crystals. The technique was inspired by the structure and functionality of antifreeze proteins found in plants and animals that thrive in sub-zero temperatures. It could prove useful in the cryopreservation of cells, tissues, and organs. The additive could be in products within the next five years.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Tesla's giant battery saved $40 million during its first year, report says ", "content": "Tesla's 100MW Powerpack battery has provided South Australia with the same grid services as peaker plants, but cheaper, quicker, and with zero-emissions through its battery system. The energy system cost just $66 million, and has already saved Australians $40 million. Basically peaker plants are power plants that are only run when there is a spike in demand that outstrips supply so they are able to demand really high prices. Tesla's giant battery allowed power to be saved efficiently to prevent these shortages, saving Australians tons of money.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Python 3.9: Cool New Features for You to Try (28 minute read)", "content": "Python 3.9 was released on October 5 and as with every new version of Python, it includes new, improved, and deprecated features. A link to the complete list of changes is provided at the beginning of the article. This article is a tutorial that covers some of Python 3.9's new features, including proper time zone support, simple updating of dictionaries, more flexible decorators, a more powerful Python parser, and more.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "A company aims to power the world for millions of years by digging the deepest holes ever ", "content": "Quaise Energy is an MIT spinout that wants to use X-rays to melt rock to create the world's deepest holes and capture geothermal energy. It plans to use a microwave-emitting device called a gyrotron to vaporize rock, removing the need for complicated downhole equipment. Quaise aims to extract energy from pilot geothermal wells by 2026. The company intends to capture energy on a scale large enough to meet human energy needs for millions of years.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "In Nevada desert, a technology firm aims to be a government ", "content": "Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Blockchains LLC, wants the Nevada government to allow companies like his to form local governments on land they own, granting them power over everything from schools to law enforcement. Berns envisions a city based on digital currencies and blockchain storage. His company is proposing to build a 15,000 home town 12 miles east of Reno. Nevada Lawmakers have responded with intrigue and skepticism. The proposed legislation has yet to be formally filed or discussed in public hearings.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Dream-shaping tech from MIT channels suggestions into your dreams ", "content": "Scientists can manipulate dreams using an app combined with a sleep-tracking device called Dormio. In a recent study, the researchers inserted certain topics into a person's dreams using the technique. Targeted dream incubation (TDI) targets an early sleep stage known as hypnagogia to achieve results similar to the rare dream state known as lucid dreaming. Using TDI, the scientists introduced targeted information to a sleeper, which resulted in direct incorporation of the information into dream content. Mechanisms that control sleep and dreaming are not well understood, so it is unknown yet what benefits the technology could bring.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Microdosing LSD for Alzheimer\u2019s proves safe in early human trial ", "content": "The results of a Phase 1 trial to study the effects of microdosing LSD have been published. Researchers were testing whether microdosing psychedelics could be useful as a therapeutic approach for treating Alzheimer's disease. The early data shows that microdosing LSD is safe enough to proceed with larger trials. Research into psychedelics for their potent anti-depressant effects has been promising, with psilocybin being given Breakthrough Therapy status twice in the last year. Psychedelics stimulate serotonin receptors in the brain. Damage to these receptors is implicated in many early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Research has so far been inconclusive about the positive effects of microdosing.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Impossible Foods Is Now Developing a Plant-Based Alternative to Cow\u2019s Milk ", "content": "Current milk alternatives just aren't the same, so Impossible Foods is now working on a food replacement that looks, tastes, and behaves like cow's milk. The Impossible Investigator project aims to recruit leading scientists to contribute to the cause. Impossible Foods' milk is made with stable proteins sourced from plants. It properly mixes with other liquids and can be whipped into a foam. There is no timeline for when the milk substitute will be ready to leave Impossible Foods' labs.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Donald Trump signs executive order targeting social media companies ", "content": "President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that targets tech companies. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives internet companies broad immunity from liability for the content their users post on their platforms. The draft order asks that the FCC reinterpret the law and decide what it means for a platform not to be acting in 'good faith' under the provision. Trump signed the order in reaction to Twitter fact-checking two of his tweets earlier in the week where he made false and misleading claims about mail-in voting and voter fraud. Repealing or limiting Section 230 of the Community Decency Act may result in more restricted speech online as companies will not want to be exposed to the potential liability for everything their users want to say.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "/r/shortcuts (Subreddit)", "content": "This is a new and quickly growing subreddit about iPhone Shortcuts (scripts that you can run using the new Shortcuts App). If you're the kind of person who likes to tinker with scripts on your own devices, there's a lot of cool stuff here, the subreddit already has 45k subscribers.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Earth Microbes Can Survive on the Surface of Mars, Study Suggests ", "content": "A team of scientists launched a box containing four types of bacteria and fungus into the stratosphere to expose them to several hours of Mars-like conditions. The experiment found that some species of fungi could be resistant to the Martian surface if accidentally delivered by spacecraft missions. This finding has implications for human Mars missions, as mission planners will have to figure out a way to prevent organisms in our microbiomes from spreading into the Martian environment.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "The UAE is adopting a 4.5-day workweek and a Saturday-Sunday weekend ", "content": "The United Arab Emirates is transitioning to a 4.5-day workweek. It will be moving from a Friday to Saturday weekend schedule to a Friday afternoon to Sunday weekend. The UAE is the first nation to formalize a workweek shorter than five days. The changes apply to federal government entities and will take effect at the beginning of next year. Private industry, schools, and universities will likely follow the government's lead. The changes are expected to bring economic and lifestyle benefits.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Build a Salary with GitHub Sponsors (Website)", "content": "GitHub Sponsors is a way to fund your Open Source project, but most developers aren't getting the most out of it. Getting people to sponsor you can be difficult. A way to increase your number of sponsors is to create exclusive content for them, for example, articles, videos, and other educational material. You can restrict who has access to your posts, depending on their sponsor tier. GitHub Sponsors is completely free to use.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash ", "content": "Reddit has acquired Dubsmash, a short-form video social platform. Dubsmash will continue to exist as a separate platform and brand, but its software will be integrated into Reddit. Reddit has allowed video uploads since 2017, but its video-editing tools are limited. Dubsmash has declined to share its total number of users, but its share of the USA's short-form video market is second only to TikTok. Reddit specifically cited Dubsmash's user base as a reason for its acquisition.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "New Guidelines Would Allow Experiments On More Mature Human Embryos ", "content": "Scientists have been prohibited from keeping human embryos alive in their labs for more than 14 days for the last few decades to avoid ethical issues that might be raised from experimenting on them as they continue to develop. The International Society for Stem Cell Research released new guidelines on Wednesday that said that the two-week period could be extended under certain circumstances. Extending the period in which embryos may be studied would help scientists solve many medical problems. The guidelines stress that each country should only permit such experiments after the topic has been discussed at length in public and with a majority agreement. Critics of the new guidelines say that they are too expansive.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Studio Ghibli films are coming to Netflix outside North America next month ", "content": "21 feature films from Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli will be added to Netflix's library for all regions outside the US, Canada, and Japan starting next month. WarnerMedia obtained the US streaming rights for its upcoming launch of HBO Max. The movies will be subtitled in 28 languages and Netflix will be providing new dubs for up to 20 languages. The release will be staggered over the next few months. It will not include Grave of the Fireflies since Studio Ghibli doesn't hold the publishing rights for the movie.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Apple announces a new\u2026 iPod touch ", "content": "The new iPod touch has been announced. It will use the A10 Fusion chip, which was introduced with the iPhone 7, and comes in many new colors. The device will look similar to older versions, with a four-inch display and a classic home button. It will not support Touch ID or Face ID but it notably has a headphone jack at the bottom of the device. The new iPod is $199 for a 32GB model, $299 for 128GB, and $399 for 256GB of storage.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Here\u2019s everything Samsung announced in its Galaxy S22 Unpacked event ", "content": "Samsung held its first Unpacked event of 2022 on Wednesday. It announced the Galaxy S22 Ultra, S22, and S22+, the Galaxy Tab S8, Tab S8+, and Tab S8 Ultra, and live sharing on Google Duo for both its phone and tablet lines. The Galaxy S22 Ultra will feature a 108-megapixel primary camera, 12GB of RAM, and space for an S Pen stylus built-in. The Galaxy S22 and S22+ will feature 50-megapixel main cameras and Corning\u2019s new Gorilla Glass Victus+. Samsung's new devices are available for pre-order today and will start shipping on February 25.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Are you scared to look at your AWS bill every month? (Sponsor)", "content": "Are you scared to look at your AWS bill every month? . If you\u2019re staring at your AWS bill wondering what\u2019s going on, you\u2019re not alone. Our cloud cost management experts help companies control their AWS spend with cost optimization and contract negotiation services.We\u2019ve fixed enough AWS bills to create a few strongly held beliefs on what makes a company great at cloud cost management \u2014 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.", "category": "Sponsor"}, {"headline": "Clubhouse accidentally leaked its own private messaging function ", "content": "Clubhouse leaked a messaging feature called Backchannel to some users last week. Backchannel is a way for users to communicate over text instead of audio. The feature was not referenced in the app's release notes and it was clearly unfinished. Clubhouse was quick to remove it from the app. It released a statement acknowledging the feature, but warned that it was in testing and might not become a part of the app.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "2022 Customer Data Platforms Market Guide (Sponsor)", "content": "A customer data platform (CDP) is an essential piece of marketing technology to put customer data to work. As a TLDR subscriber, you're invited to get free access to the \"2022 Customer Data Platforms Market Guide\u201d which provides all the information you need when choosing a CDP.Downoad it here.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Amazon\u2019s Project Zero will let brands take down counterfeit listings of their products ", "content": "Usually, if a company finds a product on Amazon that breaches copyright they can ask Amazon to take down the product listing. Project Zero is a new program by Amazon that will allow brands to take down counterfeit listings of products without review by Amazon. An enhanced protection system will automatically take down fake listings which match participating company\u2019s brand logos, trademarks, and other information. Brands that are part of Project Zero can also opt-in for a product serialization service where Amazon will scan products for valid serial codes before it leaves the warehouse. Project Zero is in a closed beta and product removals will be monitored closely to prevent abuse.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Building a \"Spotify Wrapped\" clone (Sponsor)", "content": "Follow this step by step guide with working code examples to build a \"Spotify Wrapped\" clone using Mux's Data API.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Introducing droidlet, a one-stop shop for modularly building intelligent agents ", "content": "Droidlet is a platform for building intelligent agents that simplifies integrating a wide range of machine learning algorithms to facilitate rapid prototyping. It can be used to quickly test out different algorithms with a robot. Droidlet can help researchers easily build agents that can complete complex tasks in the real world or in simulated environments. This article introduces Droidlet and explains how the platform works.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Gridsort (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Gridsort sorts data by storing it in a simplified binary cube, which offers excellent cache utilization. It is a simplified implementation of cubesort. Benchmarks and visualizations are available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Elon Musk Wants SpaceX to Reach Mars Using Carbon Capture. Here's How It Could Work ", "content": "SpaceX is starting a program to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel. The technology will be important on Mars, as fuel could be created from the planet's CO2-rich atmosphere. Technologies already exist for capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but SpaceX will still need to find a way to do this at scale. If successful, space tourism could change from an environmentally dubious activity into an inherently eco-friendly act.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Physicists Discover Entirely New Quantum States When Graphene Meets Itself ", "content": "Physicists from the US have found that when graphene is assembled into a double-layer stack, the proximity produces quantum states that have never been observed before. These states are an example of the fractional quantum Hall effect. The Hall effect is observed when voltage is deflected by the presence of a magnetic field. It was found that the Hall effect was quantized when a strong magnetic field was applied to the graphene layers. Using this knowledge, engineers could potentially build new types of electronic devices that take advantage of these quantum states.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Mice Study Reveals a New Method to Unlock The Blood-Brain Barrier ", "content": "Scientists have found a way to control the blood-brain barrier at a molecular level and open it up for a couple of hours at a time. The absence of a molecule called Unc5B left the blood-brain barrier open in tests on adult mice. Researchers then developed an antibody to block the receptor that the molecule was binding to. This allowed the team to open up the blood-brain barrier for some time to promote drug delivery. The research could lead to better treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and brain tumors.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "The Great Firewall of China blocks off Wikipedia ", "content": "China blocked Wikipedia in April, using DNS injections to prevent its citizens from accessing the encyclopedia. There has been no official statement as to why the website was blocked. In May 2017, China put forth plans for making its own encyclopedia with over 300,000 articles from 20,000 scholars. Other countries such as Turkey, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have also blocked access to Wikipedia in the past.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Uber looks to create travel \u2018superapp\u2019 by adding planes, trains, and rental cars ", "content": "Uber plans to add trains, buses, planes, and car rentals to its UK app this year. It will expand these services to other countries if the test goes well. The company is aiming to become a one-stop shop for all travel needs. It plans to add hotel bookings in the future. Uber recently secured a 30-month license to continue operating in London after a battle with city regulators over its ride-hailing app.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Disney Bundle with Disney Plus, ESPN+, and ad-free Hulu is $18.99 ", "content": "Disney announced updates to its streaming services and provided sneak peeks for upcoming shows and movies at its investor day presentation on Thursday. It announced a new bundle that includes Disney Plus, ESPN Plus, and ad-free Hulu for $18.99. A bundle with an ad-based version of Hulu is available for $12.99.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories ", "content": "GitHub Actions is an API for cause and effect on GitHub. Developers can orchestrate any workflow, based on any event, and GitHub will manage the execution and provide rich feedback while securing every step along the way. After receiving feedback from developers, GitHub has implemented CI/CD for any OS, any language, and any cloud. GitHub Actions is currently in beta and will be generally available on November 13.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Hacking the Apple Webcam (11 minute read)", "content": "This article describes a vulnerability within iCloud Sharing and Safari 15 that allowed hackers to gain unauthorized camera access on Macs. It details how the vulnerability was discovered and how the exploit was developed. The vulnerability demonstrated how a design flaw in one application can enable a variety of other bugs. All issues were patched in early 2022 and the author was awarded a $100,500 bounty.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "applied-ml (GitHub Repo)", "content": "This repository contains a collection of curated papers, articles, and blogs on data science and machine learning in production. It could help you figure out how to implement your ML project by learning how other organizations did it. A wide range of topics are covered, including data quality, classification, regression, computer vision, team structure, and information extraction.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Harvard shrank its insect-inspired microrobot to the size of a penny ", "content": "Harvard has created a Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot the size of a penny that can run at speeds of 13.9 body lengths per second. HAMR-JR was built as a test to see whether the origami-style manufacturing process used to make it could produce robots of all different scales. The design of HAMR-JR is exactly the same as the one used in its predecessor, HAMR, but scaled down. Photos and videos of the robots are available in the article.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Toyota is buying Lyft\u2019s autonomous car division for $550 million ", "content": "Woven Planet Holdings, a subsidiary of Toyota, is buying Lyft's self-driving division for $550 million in cash paid over five years. Lyft will see an annual savings of $100 million a year, putting it in a better position to earn a profit. Toyota will use Lyft's fleet data and platform for any commercial service it might launch under Woven Planet. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter this year.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Ethermint (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Ethermint is a Proof-of-Stake blockchain that is fully compatible and interoperable with Ethereum. It features Web3 and EVM compatibility, high throughput via Tendermint Core, horizontal scalability through IBC, and fast transaction finality. Ethermint is under very active development and should not be run in production.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Now Xiaomi's got smart glasses too, and they have a built-in display ", "content": "Xiaomi has launched a pair of smart glasses. The Xiaomi Smart Glasses weigh 51 grams and feature a MicroLED display built into the right lenses, a 5-megapixel camera, a quad-core ARM processor, a battery, a touchpad on the frame, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The display is monochrome and can show things like a clock, texts, and navigation instructions. Users will not need a smartphone to use the Smart Glasses. Pricing and availability will be released soon.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "#dearMoon (2 minute Youtube video)", "content": "Yusaku Maezawa, billionaire Japanese entrepreneur and art collector, will be SpaceX's first passenger in its trip around the Moon. He will bring artists (a film director, a painter, a dancer, a novelist, a musician, a fashion designer, a sculptor, a photographer, and an architect) to the moon in order to create new space-inspired art. This is the announcement for the space-inspired art project.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Where are all the crypto use cases? ", "content": "Many people claim that there are no use cases for crypto, but they're wrong. This article discusses the many different use cases for crypto. Crypto is successful at being money. Decentralized lending protocols allow anyone to take out cheap loans without involving a bank. There are also NFTs, smart contracts, decentralization, and much more.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees ", "content": "Uber and Lyft must classify their drivers as employees unless their emergency appeal to block the ruling is successful. The companies have been under pressure for months to reclassify their workers. A law signed in September provides a test for determining if someone is a contractor or an employee but the companies have denied that drivers are central to their ride-hailing business. Reclassifying workers to employees means that they will receive traditional benefits like minimum wage, health insurance, and workers' compensation. Uber and Lyft claim that the ruling will result in fewer jobs and that a vast majority of drivers wish to remain independent workers.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Sight of mouthwatering meals triggers inflammation linked to diabetes ", "content": "A study has demonstrated how the sight or smell of a meal can trigger an inflammatory response that guides insulin production.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover ", "content": "Elon Musk has laid out how he will fund the $46.5 billion purchase of Twitter. Musk will receive loans from Morgan Stanley worth $25.5 billion and cover the remaining $21 billion with his own funds. While Musk is the richest person on the planet, most of his net worth is tied up in Tesla stock. Twitter has not formally responded to Musk's offer, but the company's board of directors has approved measures to block the hostile takeover.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "We Built an \u2018Unbelievable\u2019 (but Legal)", "content": "Facial Recognition technology has developed quickly but the law has not yet caught up with it. Using public camera footage and images of people obtained through their employer\u2019s websites combined with Amazon\u2019s commercial face recognition service, it was possible to create a system that was able to identify individuals who had passed through the observed area. While the technology can be used for good, for example, finding missing children, the potential for abuse is high. Civil liberties advocates warn that the use of the technology by the government to target and identify citizens could have a chilling effect on free speech.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "A Quantum of Sensing\u2014Atomic Scale Bolsters New Sensor Boom ", "content": "Quantum sensors use the fragility of quantum effects to achieve extraordinary sensitivity to the slightest disturbances in the environment. They could be used to study brain conditions, reveal hidden underground features, detect Covid-19 in seconds with just a few hundred strands of viral DNA, navigate underground and underwater without GPS, and more. This article discusses the many possible applications of quantum sensors and the current state of projects in the field.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Crowdsec (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Crowdsec is a modern behavior detection system written in Go. It can detect peers with aggressive behaviors to prevent them from accessing systems. Crowdsec features a fast and easy installation, out-of-the-box detection, easy bouncer deployment, and easy dashboard access. It is currently still in beta.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Tuplex (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Tuplex is a parallel big data processing framework that runs data science pipelines written in Python at the speed of compiled code. It generates optimized LLVM bytecode for the given pipeline and input dataset instead of using the Python interpreter. Tuplex can run data science pipelines 5-91 times faster than systems that call into a Python interpreter.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "New neurons for life? Old people can still make fresh brain cells, study finds ", "content": "A study has confirmed that new neurons are still being made well past adolescence, and suggested that older studies that had claimed otherwise were flawed in their methodology. Older studies had tried to detect the presence of a protein, doublecortin (DCX), in the brain months, or even years after the brain matter was preserved - long after the DCX had deteriorated. The new study examined freshly preserved samples and found a large amount of evidence of newly developed cells. There was about a 30% decrease in the presence of newly developed cells from the youngest to the oldest donor samples, whose ages ranged from 43 to 87. Some scientists remain skeptical of the results, claiming that detected DCX levels were not sufficient evidence for newly developed cells, but the scientists in the study say they used very strict criteria when identifying new cells.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Distrobox (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Distrobox creates fully mutable containers in environments where the file system is immutable or where the user doesn't have privileges to modify the host. Distrobox can be used to run any Linux distribution in the terminal, as well as install development and debugging tools, editors, and SDKs without sudo or access to a traditional package manager.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Fifty-foot-tall ice spikes might make it hard to land on Europa ", "content": "Jupiter's moon Europa is about the size of Earth and completely covered in ice. Scientists think that Europa has saltwater oceans, which is exciting because this means that it is a good candidate for finding alien life. However, new computer models based on the cold, dry climate in Chile's Atacama Desert predict that the equator of Europa is covered in jagged ice spikes up to fifty feet tall. Scientists believe that these ice spikes, called penitentes, may appear on Pluto as well.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Netflix is currently down for many users around the world ", "content": "Netflix is experiencing outages around the world, mostly affecting users in the US and Europe. Many people are still unable to connect to the service. Netflix started lowering its streaming quality last week in several countries in order to handle the increased traffic from people going through lockdown or quarantine.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Instacart is hiring another 250,000 grocery shoppers ", "content": "Instacart is still seeing a surge in customer demands and has recently announced that it will hire another 250,000 shoppers on top of the 300,000 shoppers it hired last month. Workers have complained that the company hasn't made safety gear available to employees yet. Employees will have to complete a daily wellness check in order to log into the Instacart app. Those who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or forced into quarantine will receive up to 14 days of financial assistance. Instacart will continue offering a contactless delivery option and has expanded its Costco pharmacy deliveries nationwide. Customers are now able to order up to two weeks ahead.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "WebGLStudio.js (GitHub Repo)", "content": "WebGLStudio.js is a browser-based 3D graphics suite that can edit scenes and materials, design effects and shaders, and code behaviors. Everything is done in-browser, and completed works can be shared. It features a full 3D graphics engine, an easy to use editor, a graph editor, and more. It is currently missing mesh editing, support for FBX, and physics. A link to a website that has demos, videos, examples, and a working version is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Don\u2019t let your issue tracker be a four-letter word. Use Shortcut (Sponsor)", "content": "Frustrated with your project management software? Shortcut is a goldilocks solution for software engineers, product managers, and designers, providing the ease of use of a simple tool with the power and flexibility of an overly complex one. Learn more.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "First-run movies at home for the ultra-rich - at just $2,500 a pop ", "content": "Red Carpet Entertainment LLC is offering 3,000 rich Americans the chance to put up $15,000 and pay up to $2,500 per movie to watch the latest releases in their homes. The serviced was created to target the ultra-rich in a way that wouldn't disrupt the market. Most of the revenue from subscriptions goes back to the studios. Other high-end pre-screening services have not gained traction. Red Carpet Entertainment has almost 100 customers. Customers will pay at least $500 per movie and will be able to see the movie twice in a 36 hour period.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses ", "content": "As COVID-19 grabs the attention of the world, the war against antibiotic-resistant bacteria wages on. The number of people dying from bacterial infections could grow from 700,000 annually last year to 10 million annually by 2050. Bacteria evolves resistance against antibiotics over time, and this process is accelerated by overuse. Felix, a biotech startup, believes that it can program viruses to target specific sites in bacteria, killing bad bacteria and halting its ability to evolve and become more resistant. The treatment is now in trials. This approach can potentially re-sensitize bacteria to traditional antibiotics.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "React95 (GitHub Repo)", "content": "This is a cool project that lets you make React components that look like Windows95 UI components.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "India has once again shut down the internet to control protesters ", "content": "India shut down the internet in the state of Assam during protests against a new citizenship rule. The Citizenship Amendment Bill, which creates a pathway for citizenship for minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, was recently approved. Residents in the state of Assam were protesting as they were unhappy about immigration from nearby Bangladesh. Governments are increasingly turning to shutting off internet access as a way to stop protests. In 2016, the United Nations condemned internet shutdowns as a violation of human rights and freedom of expression. There were 196 internet shutdowns worldwide in 2018, with most of the shutdowns occurring in India.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Samsung\u2019s 5G Galaxy Z Flip may have been fully revealed in these latest leaks ", "content": "A leaked video of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G handset suggests that the device might be revealed at Samsung's upcoming August 5th Galaxy Unpacked event. The device appears visually similar to the Galaxy Z Flip clamshell but with a faster processor and 5G. A new 'mystic bronze' color will be available. The video, which shows the phone from practically every angle, is available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Easy OCR (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Easy OCR is a package for detecting text in images. It supports 42 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. Examples and a list of supported languages are available in the repository.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Google wants to improve your smart home with iRobot's room maps ", "content": "Google is partnering with Roomba to make smart homes smarter by using maps of customers homes collected by Roomba. They want to make an integration that will let you say \"OK Google, tell Roomba to clean the kitchen.\" They also want to use the data to make everything in the smart home \"more thoughtful\" so that you could potentially say \"turn on the lights in the kitchen\" or \"OK future iRobot robot with an arm, go get me a beer\". The data will not be used for ad-targeting.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Awesome Data Science with Python (GitHub Repo)", "content": "This repository contains a curated list of resources for practicing Data Science. It includes libraries, tutorials, code snippets, blog posts, talks, and more. Links are followed by a short description and organized according to topics.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Explore the immersive web with Firefox Reality. Now available for Viveport, Oculus, and Daydream ", "content": "Mozilla has created a new VR/AR browser called Firefox Reality. Mozilla has rethought everything to make a browser usable in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality settings. Text input is still a chore, so they have voice search. They've worked with a number of creators to bring a large collection of games, videos, environments, and experiences that can be accessed directly from the home screen. As always with Firefox, it is built with privacy in mind (this 1.0 release includes a private browsing mode) and it is free and open source. There is a 40 second video demo at the end of the article.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Genetics goes to the dogs, finds there\u2019s not much to breed behavior ", "content": "Many dog breeds are about appearance, but plenty of others are devoted to specific tasks. A team of US-based researchers conducted a study on around 18,000 dogs to study dog behavior and its underlying genetics. With a few exceptions, most behaviors are only loosely associated with specific breeds. Many modern breeds only originated about 150 years ago, and complicated behaviors are shaped by many factors.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters ", "content": "A new privacy feature in Firefox strips custom URL query parameters from URLs to prevent tracking. The Query Parameter Stripping feature automatically strips various query parameters from clicked links and links pasted into the address bar. It can be enabled by changing Enhanced Tracking Protection to 'Strict' in Firefox Settings. Some sites may not work correctly with the feature turned on.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Your app, Enterprise Ready (Sponsor)", "content": "WorkOS makes it possible for startups to serve large enterprise customers.Quickly integrate features like Single Sign-On (SAML) and user provisioning (SCIM) with just a few lines of code. Get started for free.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Samsung Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra first look: polished design (and prices)", "content": "Samsung's Galaxy S21 ($799), Galaxy S21 Plus ($999), and Galaxy S21 Ultra ($1,199) have arrived. The Galaxy S21 features almost the same specs as the S21 Plus, excluding obvious differences in screen size, battery size, and some other minor details. Samsung achieved the lower price points by changing to lower resolution screens with subtly curved edges and by reducing the RAM from 12GB to 8GB. The Galaxy S21's back panel is made of polycarbonate plastic. There are still significant internal upgrades, as well as a redesign of the lineup. The Galaxy S21 Ultra features the best of Samsung's hardware. It will be the first Galaxy S phone to support Samsung's S Pen stylus. Images of the devices are available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Xiaomi beats out Samsung to become #1 smartphone manufacturer ", "content": "Xiaomi is the world's biggest smartphone vendor, with 17.1 percent of the global market. The company has been aggressively expanding since Huawei received its US export bans. Xiaomi has 58 smartphone models that cover every possible market segment. The company is a major player in the Chinese and Indian markets. It doesn't do smartphone business in the US. Samsung is facing temporary problems due to the resurgence of Covid-19 in Vietnam, where it has major phone manufacturing facilities. The company's leader is still in jail on bribery charges.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "TikTok Picks Streaming Service Audius to Power New \u2018Sounds\u2019 Library ", "content": "Audius is a music streaming platform based on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. It was founded in 2018 and is now the largest decentralized consumer blockchain application, with over 100,000 musicians on the platform. Audius has partnered with TikTok to help streamline TikTok's current music upload and selection process. By making it easy to share tracks on TikTok, Audius is giving artists a chance to increase their exposure. 75 percent of TikTok users in the US have discovered new artists via TikTok videos.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Latest success from Google\u2019s AI group: Controlling a fusion reactor ", "content": "Google's DeepMind AI team has successfully trained its software to control a tokamak. Small reactors like tokamaks use software to monitor the state of the plasma they contain and respond to any changes. Control software tends to be fairly specialized. A rewrite is usually required if scientists want to experiment with different plasma configurations. DeepMind's software can produce different plasma configurations in real hardware. The model could be used to find ways to optimize existing hardware.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Soft Serve (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Soft Serve is a self-hosted Git server for the command line. It allows users to browse repos with an SSH-accessible TUI. Soft Serve features easy access controls and the ability to create repos on demand. A GIF demo is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "NASA Is Going to Test Drive an Alien-Hunting Robot in Antarctica ", "content": "NASA will test drive a robot underneath Antarctica\u2019s sea ice in preparation for a mission in the subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, or BRUIE, is a two-wheeled robot that uses buoyancy to anchor itself upside-down on the bottom edge of ice in order to study the zone where ice crusts and the ocean environment interact. Life is often found at interfaces, for example, where the ice meets water. Europa likely contains more water than all of Earth's oceans combined, and it might have the potential for life. There are still many challenges to overcome before a mission to Europa will be possible.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret' ", "content": "Google has come under fire again with the revelation that its Nest Secure product had a built-in microphone. The microphone has existed in the product since launch but was never listed in the product specifications. Google has apologized for the oversight, saying that they had made a mistake in not announcing the existence of the built-in microphone. It claims the microphone was built into the device for future updates, such as the current Assistant upgrade, and for the possibility of integrating other security features such as detecting broken glass.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Learning COBOL: A Journey For The Modern Programmer (12 minute read)", "content": "This article is an introduction to learning COmmon Business Oriented Language (COBOL). COBOL is a domain-specific language for business. It excels in managing and manipulating heterogeneous data in record structures, using true fixed point decimal arithmetic, and fast access to externally stored record structures. COBOL is different from what most programmers are used to as it is mostly used to operate on records. Working with COBOL likely means that the developer will need to learn how to operate a mainframe.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Uber is expected to buy its Middle Eastern rival Careem ", "content": "A $3.1 billion dollar deal for Uber to purchase its biggest competitor in the Middle East, Careem, is expected to be made public on March 26. Uber is believed to be filing for its IPO in April, and this move may give investors more reason to participate in the upcoming sale. It is rare for Uber to purchase a competitor rather than back out of a market, and Uber probably won't make more of these kinds of deals unless it gains more from it than just additional passengers.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Avoiding The Ouch: Scientists Are Working On Ways To Swap The Needle For A Pill ", "content": "A new pill has been developed that could replace the need for external injections. The pill was developed to replace the need to inject insulin externally by deploying a spring-loaded needle directly into the stomach lining. The design of the pill was modeled after the Leopard tortoise, which is able to roll back onto its feet if it is stuck upside down - this is important as the pill needs to align directly to the stomach lining rather than shooting off in random directions. Trials have already been successfully conducted in pigs, and human testing may begin in a few years.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Amazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surcharge ", "content": "Amazon plans to add a fuel and inflation surcharge to the fees it collects from US third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services. The new fee will go into effect from April 28 and is subject to change. It will apply to all product types. The surcharge is 24 cents per unit, lower than UPS's surcharge of 42 cents.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Disney announces $12.99 bundle for Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ ", "content": "A bundle package from Disney including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ will be available from the 12th of November for $12.99 a month. The pricing is cheaper than or on par with competitor streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. While Disney plans to launch Disney+ internationally, details have yet to be released. The bundle may not be available for an international audience due to licensing issues. Disney is still in talks with distributors for where Disney+ will be available, but it is likely to be at least available through Apple and Amazon.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "SpaceX\u2019s Third Starship Prototype Collapsed Last Night ", "content": "SpaceX's SN3 prototype experienced a structural failure while undergoing the same cryptogenic proof test that killed the previous two Starship prototypes. The test involves filling the vehicle's fuel tanks to capacity with cooled gasses. Elon Musk has stated that these failures are expected during the tests and that they provide vital information to use in the designs of future prototypes. The next prototype has already begun construction at Boca Chica.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Rome (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain designed to replace many existing JavaScript tools. All components are custom and there are no third-party dependencies. It includes a compiler, linter, formatter, bundler, testing framework, and more. Rome is currently not ready for production usage and the only way to use it is to build from source.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Appwrite (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Appwrite is a set of Docker microservices that serves as an end-to-end backend server for Web, Mobile, Native, or Backend apps. It can be used to easily integrate user authentication methods, databases, storage and file management, Cloud Functions, and more. Appwrite is cross-platform and language agnostic.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "6 Most Important Things Every Junior Developer Should Know ", "content": "You don't need a computer science degree to become a software developer. The skill can be self-taught. Having patience with yourself during the learning process will allow you to easier learn from your mistakes. Good companies will understand that you are learning. The ability to learn is vital since the field is always changing. Knowing the key concepts of programming will help you adapt, as while languages, frameworks, platforms, and other things might change, the core concepts will stay the same. Always try to see if there are existing libraries in order to save time. Reading other people's code is a great way to learn how others have solved problems. You do not have to learn all by yourself. There are many resources and forums out there. Finding help in the form of a mentor can be very beneficial in your career development.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Rivian opens its first three 'Adventure Network' fast charging sites ", "content": "Rivian's network of Level 3 fast DC chargers will be accessible to nearly every other EV on the road.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "GPS and water don't mix. So scientists have found a new way to navigate under the sea ", "content": "GPS systems are unable to work underwater as water breaks down the radio waves GPS relies on to function. MIT scientists have developed a device called an underwater backscatter localization (UBL) that can provide positioning information using acoustic signals without even using a battery. Existing underwater devices require batteries and usually act as sound emitters. The UBL reflects signals back to its source using a charge gained from the materials it is built with. Due to the method the materials use to store energy to produce a charge, its performance is random, but by using a range of frequencies, scientists can still pinpoint locations with accuracy.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Thought-detection: AI has infiltrated our last bastion of privacy ", "content": "Researchers from London have developed a deep neural network that can determine a person's emotional state by analyzing wireless signals. The technique involves sending radio signals towards targets and measuring them when they bounce back. These waves reveal information about an individual's heart and breathing rates, and then an algorithm is used to determine one of four basic emotion types. The technology can be applied to existing systems, such as Wi-Fi routers. It can be used to determine emotional changes in a crowd.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds ", "content": "A report by the World Wildlife Foundation involving 59 scientists has found that humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970. Other studies have shown that humans have wiped out about 83% of mammals, and even if we stop now the natural world will take 5 to 7 million years to recover. Many scientists believe that this is the sixth mass extinction, the first to be caused by a single species. The biggest causes of death are the destruction of natural habitats, followed by killing for food (300 mammals are being eaten into extinction). Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF, says \"We need a new global deal for nature and people and we have this narrow window of less than two years to get it. This really is the last chance. We have to get it right this time.\"", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Chipotle to open its first digital-only restaurant as online orders soar ", "content": "Chipotle Mexican Grill will open its first digital-only restaurant on Saturday. The location will only service online orders and will not include a dining room or an area for ordering. All orders will have to be made on Chipotle's app, website, or on third-party delivery platforms. The restaurant will be able to accommodate large catering orders. Chipotle reported that its digital sales more than tripled in the third quarter and they predict that this year's digital orders could more than double last year's total.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Vector Logo Zone (Logos)", "content": "This is a set of 3,000 company logos in SVG format. I actually built the TLDR sponsors page right before I found this, but this would have made it much easier to get a bunch of nice-looking company logos that are all the same size. If you work on commercial sites you might want to bookmark this.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Luna Programming Language (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Luna allows developers to design, prototype, develop, and refactor any application by linking visual elements together. Developers are able to collaborate with a team, interactively fine-tune parameters, inspect the results, and visually profile performance in real-time. This repository contains the code for the compiler core. A link to the full visual Luna Studio repository is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs' Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy ", "content": "Toronto's City Council will soon hold a vote on whether to allow Sidewalk Labs to privatize much of the city's lakeshore to create a 'smart city' owned by Alphabet. Sidewalk Labs has a plan to create a corporate-owned city similar to Lake Buena Vista with privately owned and regulated roads, chartered schools, the power to levy and spend property taxes, a corporate criminal justice system, and continuous surveillance. Residents can choose to decline to share information with Sidewalk Labs, but doing so will mean that they will not receive the same level of services as those who choose to share information. For example, they will not be able to access automated taxi services and some merchants might be unable to accept cash. Sidewalk Labs plans to use reputation tools, effectively establishing a social credit system.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets! ", "content": "CSS was never designed to be a server-side language, but that doesn't mean that it can't be used as one. This article walks through how to use CSS as a server-side language to declare routing, do math, and even templating. While the tool will never be used in production, it is an interesting experiment in repurposing a tool for something it wasn't supposed to do.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "HQ, maker of the once-popular HQ Trivia, is shutting down ", "content": "HQ, the makers of HQ Trivia, is closing down its business and laying off its 25 employees. CEO Rus Yusupov sent a note to employees informing them of the company's closure. HQ had received an acquisition offer from an established business but the deal didn't go through. The HQ Trivia app launched in 2017 and it quickly became popular due to its novel live nature, real cash prizes, and Scott Rogowsky playing the game's host. As the game became less popular, HQ tried to keep users engaged through extra in-game lives and an in-person event with a cash prize, but eventually, the game's novelty wore off and the company wasn't able to keep its users interested in its games.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Earthly (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Earthly is a build automation tool that executes builds in containers, making them self-contained, repeatable, portable, and parallel. It uses the same technology as Docker, but Earthly is designed to be a general-purpose build system. Earthly builds run the same for everyone, making it easier to debug and deploy apps.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}]

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It will take a whole Martian day to recharge between flights.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Huge space hotel promises fake gravity and 'supersized basketball' ", "content": "Space hotels will soon become a reality, with NASA opening up the International Space Station to tourists in 2020, the opening of the Aurora Station planned for 2022, and the Gateway Foundation recently announcing the Von Braun Rotating Space Station, a space-based cruise ship which can accommodate 100 guests and three times as many crew members. The foundation aims to have the facility open by 2027. A 12-day stay on board the Aurora Station will cost $9.5 million including transportation. Prices for the Von Braun Station have not yet been determined. Seven people have paid Russia more than $20 million each to spend time on the ISS. The Von Braun Station will have artificial gravity, meaning that guests will be able to move about normally. There are safety concerns, as space debris could potentially damage spacecraft.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Pomerium (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Pomerium is an identity-aware proxy that enables secure access to internal applications. It provides an interface to add access controls. Pomerium gateways both internal and external requests, and can be used as a VPN alternative. \ud83c\udf81", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Tech Lead Expectations for Engineering Projects (20 minute read)", "content": "This document contains a guide on being an engineering lead. It describes what the role consists of and what the expectations are. The main responsibilities for an engineering lead are to set up a framework for collaboration, manage risks, communicate project status to stakeholders, help the team focus and delegate tasks, and motivate the team. A version of this project was used by a team of software engineers at Uber in Amsterdam. Users are free to request to make changes to the document.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Who was Fahim Saleh, the tech CEO brutally dismembered in NYC? ", "content": "Fahim Saleh was a tech entrepreneur who lived in New York. Described by one of his friends as 'the Elon Musk of the developing world', Saleh founded and co-founded several startups, including ride-hailing company Pathao, Nigeria-based motorcycle ridesharing company Gokada, venture capital firm Adventure Capital, and others. Saleh was murdered and dismembered in his apartment in what appeared to be a professional killing on Monday. Video footage showed his suspected murderer attacking him, leaving no blood in the apartment.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Samsung\u2019s Galaxy A33 leaks in full before its \u2018Awesome\u2019 launch ", "content": "Samsung is set to announce three devices at its Awesome Galaxy A Event this week. The Galaxy A33 will be the most affordable out of the devices at \u20ac379. It will have a 6.4-inch 90Hz 1080p OLED display, a 5,000mAh battery, and four rear cameras. The Galaxy A53 will have a bigger 6.5-inch display with a 120Hz refresh rate. Both the A33 and A53 will use Samsung\u2019s Exynos 1280 processor. There is not much information available for the Galaxy A73 except that it will have smaller bezels than the A53. Leaked renders of the A33 and A53 are available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "compatlib (GitHub Repo)", "content": "compatlib makes it easy to write backward-and-forwards compatible Python libraries. It resolves the latest-usable version at runtime by comparing the overloaded methods with the interpreter version. An example is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "World\u2019s First Ever Space Hotel Is Now Taking Reservations ", "content": "The Voyager Class Space Station is scheduled to open in 2027. It will accommodate up to 280 guests at once, entertaining them with several bars and restaurants, a cinema, a gym, and a spa. Construction will begin in 2026. Guests can already make bookings at the space hotel. A three-and-a-half-day stay will cost $5 million, including travel to get there and back. Guests will have to go through training before their stay.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Amazon to give Prime customers one-day shipping, cutting free delivery time in half ", "content": "Amazon has started to roll out free one-day delivery for some customers, and the service is expected to be available to all Prime customers soon. Two-day delivery has been available for years and is one of the main selling points for the Prime subscription. During a conference call related to Amazon\u2019s quarterly earnings report, CFO Brian Olsavsky explained that Amazon will be investing heavily to achieve this goal. Amazon expects that this project will take time and investors will have an update on their progress by the end of Q2.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "I switched to DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused alternative to Google search that doesn't track your data \u2014 and I'm not sure it was worth it ", "content": "A journalist tried out DuckDuckGo for a week. He liked that DDG had less ads, and that the quality of the search results seemed to be as good as Google. However, there's always this nagging feeling that Google is the best and he found himself double checking with Google at times even if he got good results. He missed Google's \"Top Stories\" feature that gives you little cards of top news stories, and Google's spell check. He says he wished DDG had more pages of results, and that he often visited the third or fourth page of Google's results. Overall, he liked the sense of privacy, but little things about Google made him want to go back. If you haven't tried DDG this article is probably worth taking a look at.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Wave (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Wave is a Software as a Service Starter Kit. It allows developers to rapidly build software with features such as authentication, user profiles, subscriptions, notifications, and more. A live demo is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Qwik (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Qwik is a framework that delivers fast load times with pure HTML and less than 1kb of JavaScript. It can be used to create complex and interactive sites. Several blog posts explaining how Qwik works are available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Do Octopuses Have Dreams? They Might, and Undergo Frenzied Shifts in Color ", "content": "Scientists from Brazil who study how octopuses sleep say that an octopus' changes in color, behavior, and movement during sleep serve as evidence of a sleep cycle. The findings suggest that octopuses shift between active and quiet sleep. It takes about six minutes for octopuses to enter the active sleep state, which lasts from a few seconds to a minute. While it is not possible to confirm whether octopuses dream, the active sleep stage is a state analogous to REM sleep in humans.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "meli (GitHub Repo)", "content": "meli is an open-source platform for deploying static sites and frontend applications. It features seamless custom domains redirection, automatic HTTPS certificate issuing, an API, webhooks, integrations, and more. A screenshot of the dashboard is available in the repository.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Linux Mint introduces its own take on the Chromium web browser ", "content": "Linux Mint now has its own version of the Chromium web browser. Maintaining Chromium was a significant time investment for the Ubuntu Desktop Team, so they switched to using Snap to distribute Chromium. This resulted in security issues that Mint developers felt they needed to fix. In June, Mint cut Snap and the Snap-based Chromium from their distro. Up-to-date builds of Chromium are finally now available for Mint users. There was a delay as Mint needed to automate the process of detecting, packaging, and compiling new versions of the browser.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Go read this story of tech workers who secretly work multiple remote jobs ", "content": "Some tech workers have started to earn two full-time paychecks while working remotely, without letting either employer know about the other. The workers have to balance the two jobs, sometimes using paid time off to juggle the occasional big project. Many do not work more than 40 hours a week at both jobs combined. The workers are unapologetic, as they are taking advantage of a system that they feel has taken advantage of them.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "NASA and SpaceX are Developing Tech to Refuel Spacecraft While in Orbit ", "content": "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.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "The Boring Company tests its \u2018Teslas in Tunnels\u2019 system in Las Vegas ", "content": "The Boring Company started tests on its Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) tunnels this week. There are three stops in the LVCC system, two above ground and one in the middle of the tunnels. The system uses Tesla vehicles to transport passengers. Passengers use an app to summon cars for rides. The loop turns a 45-minute walk into a two-minute ride. There was some confusion with customers during the tests. Scaling the current system might be an issue for the company, which wants to eventually build a massive tunnel system throughout the whole city. Footage from some of the test rides is available in the article.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Atari is opening eight video game hotels across the U.S. ", "content": "Atari is in talks to build a series of gaming hotels across the country. The first hotel is set to open in mid-2020. Last year, the games industry pulled in more than $152 billion. A hotel with this focus could be a huge draw for gamers and families. Atari promises state-of-the-art venues and studios where esports and other gaming competitions can take place. There will also be virtual and augmented reality gaming options. The hotels will also have restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, and spaces for business work. Atari did not mention whether classic Atari games will be playable at the hotels.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "mailgo (GitHub Repo)", "content": "mailgo is a JavaScript package that transforms mailto and tel links into a menu that allows users to open the links directly in an app. A GIF demo is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Finnish PM calls for a 4-day-week and 6-hour-day ", "content": "Sanna Marin is Finland's new prime minister and the youngest female head of government worldwide at 34. The Finnish government is a coalition of five parties, all with female leaders. Marin is calling for shorter work hours, saying that the Finns should have to work for only four days a week, for six hours per day. A five day a week, eight hour per day schedule is currently normal in Finland. A city in Sweden reduced working time to six hours a day in old people's homes and at the municipal hospital in 2015, and it resulted in happier, healthier, and more productive employees. Six-hour workdays are normal in Sweden's tech industry, where the schedule has proven to increase productivity, efficiency, and as a result, profitability.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "The Rise of the Robot Reporter ", "content": "Artificial intelligence is being used to generate content for news websites. The technology, which was first used in financial reporting, is being used to quickly generate articles which can then be edited and published by human reporters. The tool allows journalists to focus on more substantive work rather than having to worry about reporting on statistics and numbers. AI may also help journalists by identifying patterns and anomalies in data for further investigation.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "How We Built Hydrogen: A React Framework for Building Custom Storefronts (12 minute read)", "content": "Hydrogen is a React framework for building custom storefronts on Shopify. It was built with the best developer experience in mind so that merchants could do away with bulky templates or building things from scratch. This article takes a behind-the-scenes look at how Shopify created Hydrogen and what it was like developing a new framework using experimental technology.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "SVG Repo (Website)", "content": "This site contains over 300,000 SVG vectors and icons. An ML-powered search is available. Most icons and vectors can be used for commercial projects without any royalties.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Facebook launches CatchUp, an audio-only calling app that shows who\u2019s ready to chat now ", "content": "CatchUp is a new app from Facebook that makes it easy for friends and family in the US to coordinate phone calls or set up group calls with up to eight people. The app is audio-only and it flags when users are available. Users won't need a Facebook account for the app to work as it works with the device's contacts list. One of the main reasons people no longer make phone calls is that they don't know when someone is free and they don't want to interrupt them. CatchUp solves this issue by allowing users to broadcast their availability to their contacts list.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Meta is opening its first retail store next month ", "content": "Meta is opening its first hardware retail store on its campus at Burlingame, California on May 9. The store will have areas for visitors to demo Portal devices, Quest virtual reality headsets, and Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. It will open from 11 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday. The store will allow Meta to experiment with its in-store customer experience and help define its future retail strategy.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Iced (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust that is focused on simplicity and type-safety. It features a simple API, a responsive layout, built-in widgets, a modular ecosystem, and more. Ice was inspired by the Elm Architecture and it is still an experimental software. Due to the speed of development, the master branch can contain breaking changes.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Japan's AI-Powered Port Stops Ships Colliding Better Than Humans ", "content": "Fujitsu and the Japan Coast Guard used AI to prevent collisions between cargo ships in the Tokyo Bay area during a trial carried out between December 2019 and March 2020. The Zinrai AI system predicted areas of high risk and fed information to port control authorities, who were then better able to manage ship movement. Using the system, port operators were able to identify possible collisions a full two minutes earlier than when using conventional port management systems.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Watch: Drone crashes into erupting Icelandic volcano (1 minute video)", "content": "A YouTuber trying to film a close-up of the Fagradalsfjall volcano lost their drone when it crashed into a lava spew. The volcano has been erupting since March. It has become a tourist attraction. The video shows the moment when the drone crashes into the lava.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Pfizer\u2019s announcement shows the promise of gene-based vaccines ", "content": "The announcement from Pfizer and BioNTech this week regarding their vaccine is good news for other coronavirus vaccines based on the same genetic technology. Pfizer and BioNTech's vaccine is a gene-based vaccine, based on mRNA that contains instructions for our cells to carry out. Gene-based vaccines are relatively simple to develop and manufacture. However, the FDA has never approved its use in humans. The data from the studies still needs to be reviewed and the vaccine has still not yet been approved, but in theory, they should be very effective.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "This video shows the most popular programming languages on Stack Overflow since September 2008 (1:27 Video)", "content": "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.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "After months-long 'pause', shortlived Google Allo messaging app will soon be sunset for good ", "content": "Google is shutting down their Google Allo chat app \"soon\", 8 months after the company said they were \"pausing investment\" in the app. The Google Allo project lead left for Facebook in January. Essentially the entire team has been moved to work on Android Messages. Google Hangouts \"classic\", the version that's in your Gmail, is getting shut down as well and all users will be migrated to Hangouts Meet, Google's enterprised focused Slack-like chat. It will open to consumers sometime in 2019. The long-term plan seems to make Android Messages the future of Google consumer chat.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "tsParticles (GitHub Repo)", "content": "tsParticles is a lightweight TypeScript library for creating particles. It is almost completely dependency-free (it requires pathseg for the Polygon Mask feature and Icon Fonts must be included in the page). It is fully compatible with the particles.js configuration - you only need to change the script source to convert it to tsParticles. tsParticles supports custom shapes and presets.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Equifax was hacked by Chinese military officers, federal prosecutors say ", "content": "The Department of Justice has announced the indictment of four members of China's military over the 2017 hack of Equifax. Using a vulnerability in the framework used by Equifax, the hackers obtained sensitive information such as names, social security numbers, birthdates, addresses, driver's license numbers, and sometimes even credit card numbers. Around 150 million Americans were affected by the attack. This is the second time the DOJ has indicted members of China's People's Liberation Army in an economic espionage case. There is no evidence that the stolen data has been used. People in the US are getting used to hearing about data breaches and should be more careful about managing the data that they give to companies.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "MuZero\u2019s first step from research into the real world ", "content": "MuZero is one of the successors of AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence program to defeat humans in the game of Go. It was created to be a general-purpose algorithm and it has mastered several games without needing to be told the rules. DeepMind scientists collaborated with YouTube to explore MuZero's potential to improve video compression. The study found that MuZero was able to demonstrate an average of 4% bitrate reduction without quality degradation across a large and diverse set of videos.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Microsoft thinks coronavirus will forever change the way we work and learn ", "content": "Microsoft has released data on how people are using its Teams app. Video call usage went up by more than 1,000 percent in March. Microsoft engineers are challenged with the task of making sure that Teams' infrastructure has enough capacity for this increase in usage. New features have been prioritized, and Microsoft is working on increasing the number of participants allowed per meeting. Despite coronavirus restrictions lifting in China, Microsoft reports retaining many of its new customers, with a growing number of daily active users still. This indicates that we might start seeing a cultural change in the way we work, and working from home might become normal for many. Give feedback by replying here or messaging me on Twitter @tldrdan! If you don't want to receive future editions of TLDR, please click here.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "South Korean researchers create chameleon-like artificial \"skin\" ", "content": "South Korean researchers have developed an artificial skin-like material that can quickly adjust its hues like a chameleon to match its surroundings. The skin is made with a special ink that changes color based on temperature. It is controlled by stacked multilayer silver nanowire heaters. The researchers used a robot with color-detecting sensors to demonstrate how the technology can be used for camouflage. The skin is thinner than human hair and has the potential to be further developed into wearable devices, clothing, and displays.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "\u201cExpert\u201d hackers used 11 0-days to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users ", "content": "Google researchers have discovered a team of advanced hackers who have exploited at least 11 0-day vulnerabilities over nine months. The hackers used compromised websites to infect fully patched devices running Windows, iOS, and Android. Google security researchers described the group as 'highly sophisticated'. While people should still keep their software updated and avoid suspicious websites, neither of those things would have helped the victims hacked by this group.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "TikTok parent ByteDance is reportedly making a smartphone ", "content": "ByteDance, the company that created the video app TikTok, is planning to create its own smartphone. The smartphone will be preloaded with ByteDance's own apps, such as TikTok, Jinri Toutiao, and a new unreleased music streaming service. A deal between ByteDance and smartphone maker Smartisan has been confirmed. Other companies, such as Facebook and Amazon, have attempted unsuccessfully to launch their own smartphones that were preloaded with their own apps.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Better Dev Link (Newsletter)", "content": "Better Dev Link is a newsletter with weekly links to help you become a better developer. Topics are well curated, and appropriate for advanced developers.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "I made an AI-powered Linux shell using OpenAI (5 minute video)", "content": "This video shows off an AI-powered Linux shell that uses OpenAI to interpret language and run commands. It can run complex commands, so the user doesn't have to waste time looking up how to do things. The shell can understand natural language queries, such as 'List files from biggest to smallest'. Due to OpenAI's restrictions, the software isn't public.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "This Plant Lurks Underground to Trap Prey in a Way We've Never Seen Before ", "content": "A newly discovered species of carnivorous plant grows its pitchers underground to target bugs that dwell inside the dirt.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Scientists Used Over 100,000 MRIs to Map The Human Brain Across Our Entire Lifetime ", "content": "Researchers have created a database that contains 123,984 magnetic resonance imaging scans taken from 101,457 individuals. The scans were collected from over 100 previous studies and cover every stage of life. They reveal new milestones and confirm developments that have only been previously hypothesized about. The database is designed so that new data can be easily added. A link to the database is available in the article.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Wuhan\u2019s 11 Million People Face Quarantine as Virus Fears Spread ", "content": "Wuhan, China's seventh-largest city, with approximately 11 million people, will be under a partial quarantine starting on Thursday. All transport from the city has been canceled due to the coronavirus that originated from the city. 17 people have been killed by the virus so far, which was first reported on December 31. The World Health Organization is convening on an emergency meeting regarding the coronavirus. Cases of coronaviruses infecting humans are more common in China due to close contact with domestic animals and the consumption of wild animals. The SARS epidemic in 2003 killed over 800 people. Information being released by the Chinese government regarding the virus is questionable. Mass migrations due to the Lunar New Year is a major concern as it is a perfect recipe for a worldwide epidemic.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Huawei partners with TomTom for Google Maps alternative ", "content": "Huawei is unable to use anything made by Google on its phones due to a US ban on the Chinese tech company. TomTom and Huawei have struck a deal to build a Google Maps rival called Map Kit, which will support real-time traffic reports and augmented reality features. Huawei was able to skirt the US government's trade ban as TomTom is a Netherlands-based company. Its phones are still powered by Android, but they lack Google's apps and services, including the Play Store. This has impacted Huawei's ability to sell its phones outside of Asia. It has been looking for software alternatives just in case it is forced to ditched Android entirely.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "MangoDB (GitHub Repo)", "content": "MangoDB is a proxy that converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine. It is an open-source alternative to MongoDB as MongoDB has changed its license to make it unusable for many open source and commercial projects. MangoDB will be compatible with MongoDB drivers and will work as a drop-in replacement for MongoDB in many cases. It is still in a very early stage of development.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Google and India\u2019s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next ", "content": "The JioPhone Next is a new affordable Android smartphone from one of India's telecom providers and Google. Jio Platforms received $20 billion in funding from Google, Facebook, and others last year to work on the low-cost smartphone. It is aimed at the roughly 300 million users in India who are still on 2G devices. The phone will launch in September. It will eventually be released outside of the country. A picture of the phone is available in the article.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Europe to mine moon for Oxygen and Water by 2025 ", "content": "The European Space Agency has signed a one-year contract to study and prepare for a mission to go to the moon to mine regolith. Regolith is an ore that you can extract water and oxygen from, so mining it would be a key component of building a permanent moon colony.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Amazon starts making its own TVs with new Fire TV Omni and 4-Series ", "content": "Amazon has announced its Omni and 4-Series Amazon-branded 4K Fire TVs. The Omni series is a higher-end option with better picture quality and Alexa hands-free voice control. Voice commands will always be available, even when the TV is off. The commands can be used to adjust the TV's brightness, volume, to find something to watch, and more. The Omni also has a picture-in-picture mode for checking smart home cameras. Both the Omni and 4-Series can be wirelessly linked to Echo speakers. Pricing for a range of display sizes is available in the article.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Would you be interested in a crypto version of TLDR?I'm seeing a ton of interesting crypto stories like the SOS airdrop and this Avalanche development tutorial but I don't want the whole newsletter to be flooded with crypto content, so if you'd be interested in a separate smaller version of TLDR that is only crypto tech and programming news, could you please fill out the above form so I can see if this is something worth creating? Thanks!\n)", "content": "I'm seeing a ton of interesting crypto stories like the SOS airdrop and this Avalanche development tutorial but I don't want the whole newsletter to be flooded with crypto content, so if you'd be interested in a separate smaller version of TLDR that is only crypto tech and programming news, could you please fill out the above form so I can see if this is something worth creating? Thanks!", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "secrets (GitHub Repo)", "content": "secrets is a command-line tool that can help prevent developers from committing secret keys into source code. It scans for secret keys locally before the commit. secrets is fast and has a low rate of false positives.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Snapchat becomes the mobile HBO with 12 daily scripted Original shows ", "content": "Snapchat is producing a dozen TV shows with top producers like the people who produce Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Friday Night Lights. The Discover tab will soon have a special section called \"shows\". The shows will be monetized with a few 6-second unskippable ads in each show. Snap believes that the original content could help them differentiate from Instagram and Facebook. The article contains a list of names and descriptions of the original shows.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (10 minute read)", "content": "The New York Times has released another Facebook privacy scandal. They've been sharing tons of data with other tech giants. They allowed Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada to read, write and delete users' private messages. They let Apple hide all indicators that its devices were asking for data. Even Russian search engine Yandex had special access to Facebook's unique user IDs after Facebook stopped sharing them publicly, citing privacy risks. All of these special partnerships were in effect as of 2017 according to documents the NYT got. Facebook claims that it did not violate the FTC rules requiring them to secure users' consent before sharing data because Facebook considered the partners to be extensions of itself.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "How a Half-Dozen Raspberry Pis Help Keep This Maine Oyster Farm Afloat ", "content": "Running Tide Technologies is an oyster farm that grows kelp. It employs 30 people including software developers, instrumentation engineers, fabricators, and a data scientist. The system that Running Tide users receives feedback from the oysters and adjusts water conditions accordingly. It uses six Raspberry Pis that feed data to the cloud. The sensors will hopefully be able to enable Running Tide to forecast harmful algae blooms and detect a change in acidity levels. Kelp can store up to 20 times more carbon per acre than forests, so part of Running Tide's operations involves using its kelp farm to remove carbon from the atmosphere.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Almond.CSS (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Almond.CSS is a collection of class-less CSS styles to make simple websites look better. The project uses only tags, and its themes and styles are easily customizable. Developers can combine HTML and Almond.CSS without JavaScript. A demo is available.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Uber will now deliver pumpkins, carving kits, and other seasonal items to your door ", "content": "Uber Eats will roll out a feature starting October 1 that will allow people in Los Angeles, San Diego, and West Palm Beach to order seasonal items, starting with Halloween-themed items. After Halloween, the service will offer delivery for Christmas items, and then rotate seasonally. The holiday shop can be accessed by entering a ghost or pumpkin emoji in the search bar on the Uber Eats app. Uber Pass and Eats Pass holders will have their delivery fees waived on eligible orders over $15.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Github Jira Integration (Github App)", "content": "Github just announced a first party integration with Jira, which should be nifty for people who use both services. I know there are a lot of people who have hacked together solutions to do this, hopefully this integration will solve that pain point.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Google News may shut over EU plans to charge tax for links ", "content": "The EU has proposed a \"link tax\" that would charge search engines and link aggregators that use snippets to provide context for an article. Richard Gingras, VP of Google News, says that while \"it's not desirable to shut down services\", Google wouldn't rule out shutting down Google News in Europe, pointing out that when Spain tried to charge Google for links in 2014, the company responded by shutting down Google News in Spain, causing an immediate fall in traffic for Spanish news sites. He emphasized that Google News does not monetize, saying \"There's no advertising in Google News. It is not a revenue-generating product to Google. We think it's valuable as a service to society. We are proud to have it as part of the stable of properties that people have.\"", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "What's it like as a Senior Engineer? ", "content": "Problems become more ambiguous as you get more experienced. As a senior engineer, most of your work goes into research rather than programming, and this includes talking to many people until you get the information you need. It can take some digging to get to clients' real needs. Solutions can sometimes have downsides and you will need to learn how to balance the tradeoffs. Skills like risk management, learning to fail, and receiving feedback become important for development. Working at a higher level involves getting people to agree with you. It all comes down to learning from your experiences, so you need to take opportunities as they show up and look for feedback at the end of projects.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "IBM and Samsung say their new chip design could lead to week-long battery life on phones ", "content": "IBM and Samsung have discovered a way to stack transistors vertically on a chip, allowing for electric currents to flow up and down the stack of transistors instead of side-to-side as with current chips. As chip designers run out of ways to add more chips in one place, it only makes sense to start stacking them upwards. The new Vertical Transport Field Effect Transistors design could result in cell phones with batteries that could go for over a week without being charged. It could also mean less energy-intensive cryptocurrency mining and more powerful IoT devices.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Clubhouse comes to Android after more than a year of iOS exclusivity ", "content": "Clubhouse is releasing its Android app in beta in the US after more than a year of exclusivity on iOS. It will collect feedback from the community over the next few weeks before rolling the app out more broadly. Users outside of the US will be able to pre-register for access in the Google Play Store. Clubhouse will remain invite-only for now. The company has limited access to control its growth, but the platform has still grown faster than expected.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Vitalik Buterin proposes calldata limit per block to lower ETH gas costs ", "content": "Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new limit on the total transaction calldata in a block to decrease the overall gas cost over the Ethereum network. Decreasing the calldata gas cost could create a security risk, but Buterin's proposal aims to balance that risk. If accepted, the network will require a scheduled network upgrade and miners will need to comply with the new rules. The community is discussing other options to combat the rise of gas fees. The increase in fees has resulted in users switching to lower-cost Ethereum Virtual-Machine compatible networks.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "How we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup (16 minute read)", "content": "Canny is a SaaS startup that launched in 2017, taking just under 3.5 years to get to $1 million annual recurring revenue (ARR). It was bootstrapped, taking no money from investors, and all of its growth came from inbound channels. The team employed 7 people when it hit $1 million ARR, with members distributed all over the world. This article follows the startup's development. It divides the journey into stages by ARR, and details what the startup did for each stage and the lessons learned.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Tinder created an interactive show. Gen Z loves it ", "content": "Swipe Night is a new four-part video series that was released by Tinder this month. An episode aired every Sunday during October in the US and was only available for 6 hours. During each episode, users were able to make choices by swiping left or right. These choices affected the rest of the story. Users were matched with other users depending on the choices they made. Matches on Tinder jumped 26 percent as a result, and messages increased by 12 percent. Tinder is planning an international rollout of the series in February 2020. The plot of the story centers around an apocalyptic scenario where a comet is set to destroy Earth in three hours.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Google Search Is Dying ", "content": "Google search results are dying as most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust. Most people now use Google to search through Reddit posts for answers. Serving ads creates misaligned incentives for search engines, SEO has resulted in poor quality sites surfacing to the top of search results, and AI now tries to figure out what the user wants rather than through only search terms. Reddit results are more authentic as people discuss what they think without the commercial aspect other websites have.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Advice for Tech Workers to Navigate the Most Heated Job Market of All Time (11 minute read)", "content": "The job market is on fire across the globe, with demand for employees outstripping supply. While the root causes of the heated hiring market are longer-term forces, the easing of lockdowns means it may cool down by early 2022. This article contains advice for tech workers, both junior and more experienced, on how to make the most out of this heated market while it lasts.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Norled Picks Westcon to Build World\u2019s 1st Hydrogen Ferry ", "content": "Norled, a Norwegian ferry company has signed a contract with shipyard Westcon to build two new environmentally-friendly ferries. One ferry will be the world\u2019s first hydrogen-fueled ferry and the other will be a battery-operated ship. The ships will be operational in 2021 and will each carry up to 299 passengers and 80 cars. Hydrogen is a zero-emission fuel that is suited to supplying large amounts of energy to ferry propulsion systems, increasing sailing distance and speed on boats. A second hydrogen-powered vessel will soon operate in France as part of the EU\u2019s Flagships project.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Google foils Roku\u2019s YouTube TV ban, adds service to the main YouTube app ", "content": "Roku recently removed the YouTube TV app from its store due to a disagreement with its contract with Google. As a response, Google has embedded the YouTube TV app into the YouTube app. The contract between Google and Roku for the YouTube app does not expire until December. Google has threatened to provide free streaming devices for their YouTube TV customers if Roku refuses to renew its deal under reasonable terms. The dispute is likely due to Google's AV1 video codec, which will require Roku to upgrade to more expensive chips.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the US ", "content": "The /e/ Foundation is now offering Google-free Android handsets in the US. The Foundation has been offering refurbished smartphones without Google software in Europe since 2019. It is starting in the US with the Samsung Galaxy S9 for $380 and the Galaxy S9+ for $430. The phones are carrier unlocked and will be backed with a one-year warranty. They will run a version of Android called /e/ OS, which has removed most of the code that sends data to remote servers without user consent.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Automagica (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Automagica is an open-source Smart Robotic Process Automation platform. Users can write cross-platform automation scripts using Python. Officially, only Windows is supported. Using Automagica, users can automate browsing/scraping, SAP, folder and file manipulation, and more. Natural Language scripts are supported.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Introducing Android Q Beta (10 minute read)", "content": "The Beta 1 of Android Q has been released, bringing additional privacy and security features for users, enhancements for foldables, new APIs for connectivity, new media codecs and camera capabilities, Neural Network API extensions, Vulkan 1.1 support, faster app startup, and more. An SDK has been released for developers to test their apps on the new OS so developers can start to take advantage of the new features and APIs. Pixel 1, 2, and 3 owners can download and install the beta immediately after enrolling into the beta program, and developers with other Android devices can use the new Android Emulator to test their apps.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Google has enlisted NASA to help it prove quantum supremacy within months ", "content": "Quantum supremacy is the idea that a sufficiently powerful quantum computer will be able to perform certain calculations that current supercomputers can't. Proving it could eventually lead to breaking currently unbreakable codes, enhancing AI, improving weather forecasts, and modeling complex molecular interactions. Google's quantum computing head, physicist John Martinis, believes that Google's new 72-qubit quantum chip Bristlecone will be capable of achieving quantum supremacy. Google is partnering with NASA to test this out, pitting Bristlecone against NASA's most powerful supercomputer Pleiades. Google and NASA signed a five year partnership in July that will give NASA access to Google's quantum computing resources over the next five years in exchange for helping test and improve Google's quantum computers, and running comparisons against traditional supercomputers.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Apple's Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the 'data industrial complex' ", "content": "Without naming any names, Tim Cook warned that our personal data has been \"weaponized against us with military efficiency\" by the \"data-industrial complex\". He explicitly called for federal regulation, saying that Apple would fully support \"comprehensive, federal privacy law.\" He argues for a four pronged approach: data minimization (companies should de-personalize or simply not collect personal data wherever possible), transparency (users should know what is being collected), right to access (users should always be able to get a copy of what data a company has on them), and right to security. Cook also addressed the tension between respecting privacy and getting the data needed to improve AI, saying \"For artificial intelligence to be truly smart it must respect human values \u2014 including privacy. If we get this wrong, the dangers are profound. We can achieve both great artificial intelligence and great privacy standards. It is not only a possibility \u2014 it is a responsibility.\"", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "A New Brain Implant Automatically Detects and Kills Pain in Real Time ", "content": "A group from the New York University School of Medicine has developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that connects two brain regions together to detect and kill pain in real-time. One part of the BMI is connected to a region of the brain that detects pain, and another part dampens pain when activated. The implant only works when there is pain, so it doesn't constantly stimulate the brain. It has so far only been tested on rats, but it seems to be an effective strategy for pain therapy. While it may seem to be overkill, it could be a preferable choice to drugs for chronic pain sufferers.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test ", "content": "Cuttlefish are able to delay gratification. Scientists found that the cephalopods could wait a bit for preferred prey rather than settling for a less desirable prey. Other animals, such as apes and corvids, have also demonstrated the ability to delay gratification through future-oriented foraging. The Stanford marshmallow test was a study where 600 children between the ages of four and six were given a choice to eat a marshmallow immediately or wait 15 minutes for a second marshmallow. The study found a correlation between those who had demonstrated self-control and success later in life. Later studies found that the correlation was much less significant when factoring in aspects like family background and home environment.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Hacker Roadmap (GitHub Repo)", "content": "This repository contains a guide on becoming a pen tester from scratch. It goes through the basic concepts of information security, discusses the basic steps and tools of pen testing, and also links additional resources for further information. Students are encouraged to practice their skills on challenges, rather than real targets, and to use the information responsibly.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Kickstarter CEO: Let's try a 4-day work week ", "content": "Kickstarter plans to experiment with a four-day workweek to offer workers more flexibility and time. CEO Aziz Hasan was motivated to try out the arrangement due to the effects of the pandemic on the workplace. He noticed that other companies were also experimenting with alternative work arrangements. Kickstarter's newly formed union is supportive of the idea.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days ", "content": "WhatsApp users can now mark messages to disappear after seven days. The seven-day limit exists regardless of whether the message is read or not as the timer begins when the message is sent. Only group admins will be able to turn on the feature in group chats. Disappearing messages have become more popular in apps in recent years. Users can send disappearing messages on Instagram and Messenger.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Jovo (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Jovo is a cross-platform framework for building conversational and multimodal experiences on the web, Alexa, Google Assistant, Messenger, Instagram, Google Business Messages, mobile apps, and more. It is component-based and extensions are available through a marketplace. Jovo works with many NLU and CMS services.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel ", "content": "China has revealed a prototype of a new magnetic levitation train that can reach speeds up to 600 km/hr. The country already has the fastest commercial maglev service, which runs between Shanghai\u2019s Pudong airport and the city center at a maximum speed of 431 km/hr. A maglev service between Beijing and Shanghai travels at around 350 km/hr over the 1300 kilometer distance. The journey takes around four and a half hours by plane, but the new maglev trains may be able to complete the journey in only three and a half hours. Japan is currently building a maglev line between Tokyo and Nagoya, scheduled to be open in 2027.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Memray (GitHub Repo)", "content": "Memray is a memory profiler for Python. It can help developers discover the cause of high memory usage, find memory leaks, and find hotspots in code that cause a lot of allocations. Memray can be used both as a command-line tool or as a library.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "FBI hires 140 robots to retrieve sensitive information ", "content": "The FBI has collected billions of pages of files over its existence. When designing a new facility to house about 2 billion pages in 360,000 bins, the FBI decided that manually retrieving data from the records was almost impossible due to the size of the collection. After exploring various solutions, the FBI chose to employ 140 robots to automatically file and retrieve records. The robots will streamline the data retrieval process and also optimize storage space by eliminating aisles for human access. Their software only tracks record and bin numbers, which means that they won\u2019t have direct access to the records themselves.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "For the first time, scientists find X-rays coming from Uranus ", "content": "Scientists discovered X-rays emitting from Uranus after analyzing two visuals of the planet taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in 2002 and 2017. Most of the X-rays come from the sun, but there are hints of at least one other source present. Figuring out the source could reveal insights into how other objects in space emit X-rays, including black holes and neutron stars. Uranus is particularly interesting to scientists because of its side rotation and magnetic field.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Microsoft to launch xCloud streaming free with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate in September ", "content": "Microsoft will launch xCloud free to its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in September. xCloud lets Xbox players play games on mobile devices, even allowing users to transfer sessions from console over to mobile. Subscribers will receive Xbox Live access, an Xbox Game Pass subscription, and xCloud game streaming for a single $14.99 monthly subscription. Over 100 Xbox Game Pass titles will be playable on xCloud on launch.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Carbonated Ice Cream Is a Feat of Physics\u2014and It Actually Tastes Good ", "content": "Ice cream manufacturers often have to race against time to put their products on shelves, an expensive task that produces massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. A pair of researchers at Cornell University have created a system that uses pressurized carbon dioxide to create instant ice cream. When fluids expand from high pressure to low pressure, it can cause a cooling effect under the right conditions. The scientist's ice cream machine uses this principle with pressurized carbon dioxide to produce a scoop of ice cream every three seconds. With the machine, shop owners can potentially keep shelf-stable mixtures on hand and produce ice cream as required. The system can also be potentially used to create instant soda slushies.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "How Node.js Works: A Look Behind The Scenes ", "content": "Node.js provides a layer of abstraction that allows developers to write 100% pure JavaScript code and still access functions that are implemented in other libraries in the C++ language. This article explains how Node.js works, looking at its architecture and dependencies and how code is executed in the system.", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Researchers create neurons that can be integrated into human brain tissue ", "content": "Scientists have successfully generated human neurons from skin cells using cellular reprogramming technology. Using a combination of cutting-edge technologies, the researchers demonstrated that grafted cells were able to receive inputs and establish synaptic contacts with the already established neuronal network in a slice of brain cortex. As the cells used for treatment are harvested from the patient, there is no risk of graft rejection and also no ethical concerns regarding the source of the cells.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Next Web Browser (Github Repo)", "content": "Next is an open source Lisp-based keyboard-oriented extensible web-browser designed for power users. The goal is to enable power users to be more productive by allowing fast tab switching and fast navigation without having to use a mouse. I can see how this could get big, a web browser is probably most people's most used application so it makes sense to invest some time in getting fast with it (like how people invest time learning text editors like vim/emacs). It's still pretty early stage and is missing some key stuff like adblock, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on (and a cool project for Lisp fans!).", "category": "Programming, Design & Data Science"}, {"headline": "Elon Musk delivers New Year\u2019s Teslas with help from his proud mom ", "content": "Elon Musk and his mother, Maye, helped volunteers from the local Tesla Owners club deliver cars to hundreds of customers on New Year\u2019s Eve. A $1,875 US federal tax credit for customers was to expire at the end of 2019, so Tesla tried to ship the cars to customers as soon as possible so they could take advantage of the credit. Tesla was giving out $10 vouchers for the food trucks on-site and was also offering drinks.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Hungry? - Lunch on us during the DX Summit virtual conference (Sponsor)", "content": "Hungry? - Lunch on us during the DX Summit virtual conference . As a TLDR subscriber, you're invited to the most influential technology and marketing event of the year! Register for free today and master new skills and network with the world\u2019s most successful digital experience leaders. Join us on May 18 at 11am ET for our great lineup of speakers - including leaders from Google, HP, and Ribo AI as we discuss NextGen Customer Service Excellence through data and journey orchestration.Register today for this digital CX conference to receive a free Uber Eats voucher to use toward lunch delivery of your choice.", "category": "Sponsor"}, {"headline": "Los Angeles Uber drivers join cities across the U.S. in strike ahead of much-anticipated IPO ", "content": "Uber, who is about to launch one of the tech world's most anticipated Initial Public Offerings, faced a protest from their drivers just days before the sale. Drivers across 10 cities in the US, as well as in some European locations such as London, protested against unfair pay and a lack of transparency. Passengers did not seem to notice much difference during the protest as they were still able to hail rides without much difficulty, but the goal of the protest was so legislators would take notice. A change in legislation may affect the company's value and sale price, which the protestors are trying to use as leverage against the company.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects ", "content": "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.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Brain implants, AI, and a speech synthesizer have turned brain activity into robot words ", "content": "A team of scientists has used neural networks to synthesize speech from brain activity. Patients who had special implants to monitor epilepsy listened to words as artificial neural networks monitored their brain activity. The network was able to synthesize understandable words from just the brain activity 75% of the time. This research may soon allow paralyzed people to communicate.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Ninja announces he is leaving Twitch to stream exclusively on Mixer ", "content": "One of Twitch's most popular stars, Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins, is leaving the platform to stream exclusively on Mixer. Mixer is a streaming service owned by Microsoft and was previously known as Beam. Ninja will continue to stream Fortnite and says that his streams will be the same on the new platform. Twitch has congratulated Ninja on his accomplishments in the gaming community. Fortnite has recently held its inaugural World Cup Finals in New York City, where Ninja was both a competitor and a commentator. Ninja has also appeared on the cover of ESPN and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He will be appearing at Lollapalooza in Chicago this week.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says ", "content": "In March last year, a KARGU-2 quadcopter targeted and killed a soldier without instructions to do so. The drone was operating in an autonomous mode, hunting down the target as they tried to retreat. It is likely the first time drones have attacked humans without being directed to. The incident raises concerns about the future of autonomous drones. Scientists and human rights groups have called for restrictions on the technology.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "The 5 biggest announcements from Apple\u2019s March event ", "content": "Apple has announced its new suite of subscription services, with a focus on an advertisement-free experience and user privacy. All data regarding a customer\u2019s viewing history will remain on the user's device and not shared with Apple or advertisers. Apple News Plus will open up a range of magazines and news subscriptions for $9.99, including family sharing, and is available now. The Apple Arcade gaming subscription service will let subscribers play a range of games across all of Apple's devices and will be available later this year at a yet to be disclosed price. Apple TV users will be able to subscribe to their preferred channels directly through Apple TV Channels, and Apple plans to bring original content to their devices through Apple TV Plus, however, there are not many details about this service besides a list of celebrities having signed on to create content for the platform. Finally, Apple has released a credit card with cash back benefits that will be stored in Apple Wallet, with the option of users obtaining a physical card if required. A seven minute video is available with the main highlights of Apple's keynote.", "category": "Big Tech & Startups"}, {"headline": "Space balloon company offers first look at luxury cabins ", "content": "Space Perspective plans to lift luxury cabins into the upper atmosphere with giant balloons by the end of 2024. The company has sold more than 600 tickets at $125,000 each so far for the experience. The luxury cabins will feature Wi-Fi connectivity and a drinks bar. The balloons will reach altitudes of 20 miles. Guests won't need to complete any special training. Renderings of the luxury cabins are available in the article.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "Watch Nanobot Carry Lazy Sperm to Fertilize Living Eggs ", "content": "A team of scientists from Germany have developed tiny motors that can make sperm swim better, essentially acting as a taxi to an egg. The spermbots consist of a spiraling piece of metal that wraps around a sperm's tail. It is guided to the egg using a magnetic field. The motor slips off the sperm once it reaches its destination. No cells are harmed in the process, but researchers are unsure how the immune system would react to the micromotors. A video of the spermbots in action is available in the article.", "category": "Miscellaneous"}, {"headline": "Scientists say they can read nearly the whole genome of an IVF-created embryo ", "content": "A Californian company claims that it can decode almost all of the DNA in days-old embryos created using in vitro fertilization. The technique requires fully sequencing both parents' DNA and reconstructing the embryo's genome with the help of the data. While the technique could be used to screen for genetic diseases, the science of screening embryos for genetic diseases is still new and primarily used only in research. There are still many limitations to the technology and scientists are still learning about what works.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}, {"headline": "SpaceX flies its Starship rocket to 40,000 feet, just misses the landing in explosive finale ", "content": "SpaceX's Starship prototype SN8 achieved a major milestone by flying to a height of around 40,000 feet. After reaching its peak, the Starship oriented into a horizontal position to glide back to Earth. Its engines re-ignited as the rocket approached the ground, reorienting itself to a vertical orientation for the descent. The landing was a little rough, resulting in an explosion that engulfed the rocket. Despite this, the test was deemed successful, as the test flight resulted in a ton of valuable data for SpaceX. SpaceX already has two more prototypes ready to go for follow-up tests.", "category": "Science and Futuristic Technology"}]

tldr_news.py

@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import os
 
 import datasets
 
-
 _DESCRIPTION = """\
 The `tldr_news` dataset was constructed by collecting a daily tech newsletter (available at 
 https://tldr.tech/newsletter). Then for every piece of news, the "headline" and its corresponding "content" were 
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ collected. Such a dataset can be used to train a model to generate a headline fr
 # TODO: Add link to the official dataset URLs here
 # The HuggingFace Datasets library doesn't host the datasets but only points to the original files.
 # This can be an arbitrary nested dict/list of URLs (see below in `_split_generators` method)
-_URLS = {"all": "https://github.com/JulesBelveze/tldr_news/blob/main/1.1.0.tar.gz?raw=true"}
+_URLS = {"all": "https://github.com/JulesBelveze/tldr_news/blob/main/1.2.0.tar.gz?raw=true"}
 
 
 class TLDRNewsConfig(datasets.BuilderConfig):
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ class TLDRNewsConfig(datasets.BuilderConfig):
 class TLDRNewsDataset(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
     """Dataset containing headline & content of pieces of news from the tldr tech newsletter."""
 
-    VERSION = datasets.Version("1.1.0")
+    VERSION = datasets.Version("1.2.0")
 
     BUILDER_CONFIGS = [
         TLDRNewsConfig(name="all", version=VERSION, description="This contains all the existing newsletter"),
@@ -57,6 +56,11 @@ class TLDRNewsDataset(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
             {
                 "headline": datasets.Value("string"),
                 "content": datasets.Value("string"),
+                "category": datasets.ClassLabel(
+                    num_classes=5,
+                    names=['Sponsor', 'Big Tech & Startups', 'Science and Futuristic Technology',
+                           'Programming, Design & Data Science', 'Miscellaneous']
+                )
             }
         )
 
@@ -84,4 +88,4 @@ class TLDRNewsDataset(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
         with open(filepath, encoding="utf-8") as f:
             data = json.load(f)
         for key, row in enumerate(data):
-            yield key, {"headline": row["headline"], "content": row["content"]}
+            yield key, {"headline": row["headline"], "content": row["content"], "category": row["category"]}