Subj : Apple OpenAI deal 📱, Blue Origin launches 🚀 , how Google reviews code 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Mon May 20 2024 10:34:53 --gVzhpzES Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apple will improve Siri's voice capabilities and add features like auto-s= ummarizing notifications to help users with their day-to-day lives=C2= =A0=20 Sign Up [1] |Advertise [2]|View Online [3]=20 =09=09TLDR = =09=09TOGETHER WITH [Ryse] [4] TLDR 2024-05-20 BEST BUY IS TH= E UNLIKELY PLACE TO LOOK FOR HOME RUN INVESTMENTS (SPONSOR) [4]=20 Th= e big-box retailer has a proven record of placing early bets on home-tech= products that go on to dominate the market. =09* Ring - acquired by A= mazon for $1.2B =09* Nest - acquired by Google for $3.2B Early inves= tors in these companies are sitting on some serious returns - but for the= rest of us, there's still a chance to get in on the action with RYSE [4]= .. 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Apple's generative = AI technology isn't advanced enough for it to release its own chatbot, so= it's teaming up with OpenAI to add the functionality to iOS 18.=20 B= LUE ORIGIN SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES ITS FIRST CREWED MISSION SINCE 2022 (2 M= INUTE READ) [6]=20 Blue Origin has resumed crewed flights for the first= time in two years. The company recently successfully brought six tourist= crew members to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard rocket and= crew capsule. Blue Origin had paused launches after a mission experien= ced an anomaly that caused it to abort after liftoff in August 2022. 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The scientists grew brain organoids f= rom human embryonic stem cells and then tested various chemical compounds= to determine which combinations could help keep frozen human brain tissu= e alive and enable growth after thawing. The most successful combination= consisted of methylcellulose, ethylene glycol, DMSO, and Y27632. The r= esearchers suspect it somehow interferes with a pathway that would otherw= ise initiate cell death, allowing for the issue to freeze and be thawed w= ithout incident.=20 =F0=9F=92=BB=20 PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENC= E =F0=9F=91=8B GOODBYE LOW TEST COVERAGE AND SLOW QA CYCLES (SPONSOR)= [9]=20 Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested befo= re shipping. But getting that kind of coverage =E2=80=94 and staying ther= e =E2=80=94 is hard and pricey for any sized team. 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Blue Origin has resumed crewed flights = for the first time in two years. The company recently successfully brought = six tourist crew members to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard r= ocket and crew capsule. Blue Origin had paused launches after a mission exp= erienced an anomaly that caused it to abort after liftoff in August 2022. T= he company has flown a total number of 37 human passengers to space so far.
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Frozen human brain tissue w= as successfully revived for the first time (3 minute read)

Scientists from China have found a way = to thaw human brain tissue without damaging it. The scientists grew brain o= rganoids from human embryonic stem cells and then tested various chemical c= ompounds to determine which combinations could help keep frozen human brain= tissue alive and enable growth after thawing. The most successful combinat= ion consisted of methylcellulose, ethylene glycol, DMSO, and Y27632. The re= searchers suspect it somehow interferes with a pathway that would otherwise= initiate cell death, allowing for the issue to freeze and be thawed withou= t incident.
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How Google does code review= (8 minute read)

This article walks readers through Goog= le's code review process. It covers Google's internal code review tools, th= e different levels of mandatory approvals, Google's culture around code rev= iew, and more. Google's code reviews are more thorough and thoughtful than = industry standard. Changes take multiple days and countless rounds of feedb= ack before they can be merged.
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Most of the interesting conversations i= n tech now happen in private group chats. This thread looks at what makes a= group chat good. The best groups are small, have good moderators, and shar= e rituals, jokes, and routines. New ideas, combined with a sense of humor, = is what makes great group chats work - boredom breaks them.
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Microsoft is releasing the next Call of= Duty to its Game Pass subscription service. Players will still have the op= tion to purchase the game outright. While this plan may mean people could e= nd up paying Microsoft less to play the new game, the company hopes that it= will draw new users to Game Pass who will end up paying more over the long= term. Starfield, which was released on Game Pass at launch last year, drov= e a record number of new subscriptions in a single day.
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AI PCs have neural processing units des= igned to specifically handle artificial intelligence tasks.
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This article looks at Starlink and how = TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
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While email works pretty well for its u= sers, the backend for email is a mess.
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A provision in OpenAI's off-boarding pa= pers states that employees risk losing all vested equity they earned during= their time at the company if they don't sign a nondisclosure and non-dispa= ragement agreement when they leave.
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38% of web pages that existed in 2013 a= re no longer accessible.
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