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Big Tech & Startups

Leaked Samsung Galaxy S23 pictures show off new camera design (2 minute read)

Samsung will be launching the Galaxy S23 at an event on February 1. Official pictures of the device have leaked and are featured in the article. The device will be available in black, green, pink/purple, and white. It will ship with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC in the US. The S23 Ultra is expected to look the same as the S22 Ultra. It will feature a 200-megapixel main camera and a minimum base storage of 256GB.

Medium embraces Mastodon (3 minute read)

Medium is launching a Mastodon instance to help its authors, publications, and readers find a home in the fediverse. It will soon start inviting select authors and publications on a waitlist, which is linked in the article. Medium will send invites to its members shortly after. Its Mastodon instance will have reliable infrastructure and moderation, a short domain name to make username sharing easier, easier onboarding for new users, and an interesting local feed.

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Science & Futuristic Technology

3D printing reaches new heights with two-story home (2 minute read)

Hannah, Peri 3D Construction, and Cive are 3D printing a two-story home in Houston. Construction of the 4000-square-foot home will take around 330 hours using a printer that weighs more than 12 tons. The three-bedroom home has wooden framing and is made out of concrete which can withstand hurricanes, heavy storms, and other severe weather. Using the printer means fewer construction workers are needed as the printer does all of the heavy lifting.

A New Treatment for Arthritis: Vagus-Nerve Stimulation (5 minute read)

SetPoint Medical plans to release preliminary results of a device called Reset-RA later this year. Reset-RA was designed to target rheumatoid arthritis, but if the trial is successful, trials for other autoimmune diseases could follow. The implant, which is placed next to the vagus nerve, stimulates the nerve up to four times daily for one minute. It targets the inflammatory reflex, which indirectly controls immune responses to infection and injury.

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Programming, Design & Data Science

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (11 minute read)

Jane Street uses a library for test-writing with fast feedback cycles called 'expect tests'. Also known as 'snapshot' tests, the library makes test-writing feel like a REPL session or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter notebook. This article covers how expect tests works with examples of how the workflow makes testing much easier.

Code Brushes (4 minute read)

Code Brushes is a new feature in the Copilot Labs Visual Studio Code extension that makes modifying code feel more tactile. It features a toolbox of brushes that updates code to add types, be more readable, fix simple bugs, add debugging statements, make code more robust, and more. Users are able to make custom brushes on the fly.

4 Steps to Monitor GitLab with OpenTelemetry and New Relic (Sponsor)

In this post, you’ll learn how to monitor GitLab jobs and pipelines using OpenTelemetry and the New Relic GitLab quickstart. Follow along to populate a pre-built dashboard with your key GitLab metrics, such as job execution time and failure rates. From there, you can visualize jobs, pinpoint issues, and create alerts. Read the post now on the New Relic blog

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Miscellaneous

2023 is poised to be the most exciting year of AI yet! 🎉 (3 minute read)

This Twitter thread looks at what will happen this year in the AI industry. It covers five main categories: foundational model players, AI frontend startups, custom large language models, tooling companies, and big compute clouds. There will be consolidation, multiple battles, and splintering across these categories over the next year.

Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’ (3 minute read)

Sam Bankman-Fried has launched his own Substack newsletter. He wrote a post where he maintains his innocence surrounding FTX's bankruptcy. Bankman-Fried claims that FTX would have been able to repay all of its customers if he wasn't forced to declare bankruptcy. He is set to face trial on eight counts of criminal charges and could face up to 115 years in jail if convicted on all charges. His trial date has been set for October 2.

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SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System (6 minute read)

A guide on how to start using SQLite Wasm in the browser with an Origin Private File System persistence backend.

PC shipments saw their largest decline ever last quarter (2 minute read)

PC shipments are estimated to have fallen by more than 28 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Your tech stack is not the product (6 minute read)

Customers want software that delivers problem-solving impact.

JPMorgan shutters website it paid $175 million for, accuses founder of inventing millions of accounts (3 minute read)

JPMorgan has shut down Frank, a college financial aid platform, alleging that the company's founder created nearly 4 million fake customer accounts.

GPT Index (GitHub Repo)

GPT Index is an interface that makes it easier to use large external databases with large language models.

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New Relic, Inc. - Senior Frontend Engineer- IAM (Remote, $135k - $189k)

New Relic is hiring a frontend engineer to work on the Identity and Access Management Experiences team, which contributes to high impact business areas by enabling accounts, users and access management for customers.

Tiger Analytics - Principal Data Engineer for Azure (Remote, $120k - $180k)

Tiger Analytics is hiring a principal data engineer to architect, design, and implement advanced analytics capabilities.

Adblock Plus - Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Berlin/Cologne/Remote (Remote, Europe, $93k - $98k)

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be part of the core team responsible for devising novel machine learning approaches to ad filtering. The models you develop will be embedded in all our popular products like AdBlock Plus and Adblock.

New Relic, Inc. - Site Reliability / Java Backend Engineer (Remote or Barcelona, $52k - $73k)

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Samsung Galaxy leaks 📱, FTX founder launches blog 👨🏻, GitHub Code Brushes 👨‍💻

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