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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With Daily Update 2023-04-04 Compliance doesn’t have to be slow and tedious (Sponsor) Tired of wasting countless hours on compliance tasks? Get audit-ready with Drata: Ditch the manual screenshots and spreadsheets for a smoother, automated workflow. Simplify complex frameworks like GDPR with pre-mapped controls and requirements. Communicate directly with your auditor through the Audit Portal. Access 75+ integrations: cloud service providers, security awareness solutions, developer tools. Save up to 200+ hours of repetitive work. Try Drata today with a special offer for TLDR readers 📱 Big Tech & Startups Apple Researching AirPods Case With Built-in Interactive Touchscreen (2 minute read) Apple filed a patent in September 2021 for an AirPods case design with a built-in touchscreen display. The design would allow users to control audio sources and interact with associated apps. The patent filing describes various features, including a capacitive touchscreen with a GUI and a sensor that can detect when the case is squeezed. Renderings and diagrams from the filing are available in the article. Apple CEO Tim Cook Teases AR/VR Headset and More in New Interview (3 minute read) Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted at the launch of a mixed-reality headset during an interview with GQ. In the interview, Cook discussed Apple's previous stance on glasses and headsets and why the company now has an interest in AR/VR hardware. He also talks about his career, premiership, and personal life. A link to a full transcript of the interview is available. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology A passenger aircraft that flies around the world at Mach 9? Sure, why not (4 minute read) Venus Aerospace is building a hypersonic aircraft that can carry passengers at Mach 9 speeds. The aircraft will perform a ten-minute rocket booster, bringing it to an altitude of approximately 50 km, after take off. The company aims to achieve an airport-like operational cadence of four daily flights. The aircraft will use a new type of engine based on rotating detonation. This type of engine has the potential to increase fuel efficiency in a variety of applications, from ships to rocket engines. A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship (4 minute read) Virtuix's Omni One is the inspiration behind the omnidirectional treadmill featured in Ready Player One. It uses slip-on shoe covers for simulated movements in VR, utilizing a tether for stability. The OmnI One is now being shipped to beta users. It costs $2,595 and comes with a customized Pico Neo 3 headset. A commercial version is set to release later this year. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Hocus (GitHub Repo) Hocus allows users to launch disposable development environments on their own servers in a matter of seconds. Users can define their dev environments as code and launch them immediately from their browsers. Hocus serves as a capable self-hosted option for Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces and integrates with any Git provider that supports the SSH protocol. CSS text-wrap : balance : Chrome Developers (4 minute read) Chrome Canary has added a new CSS feature called 'text-wrap: balance' from CSS Text Level 4. This feature can enhance text layouts. It can easily be accessed by enabling chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features. This article includes various examples that show how the use of this single line of CSS code can substantially improve text layouts. Meet Redpanda: The streaming data platform that is easier, faster, safer, resource efficient, and Kafka® API-compatible so your applications work without code changes! (Sponsor) Building real-time apps? Explore Redpanda, a new platform engineered to remove complexity traditional to legacy Kafka. It’s up to 10x more performant on 3x fewer resources! Check out these short tutorials to quickly learn about data streaming — and dive deeper into Redpanda at your own pace. 🎁 Miscellaneous How To Do Hard Things (20 minute read) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a behavioral psychology framework that emphasizes how our thoughts influence our behavior. It offers tools for debugging when our minds get stuck. While ACT is backed by over 800 randomized controlled studies, it is relatively unknown outside of therapy circles. This article explains the basics of ACT, how it can impact your life, and how to apply it. ACT can help people approach the stress and uncertainty of entrepreneurship in a refreshing way. The Tor Project’s new privacy-focused browser doesn’t use the Tor network (4 minute read) The Tor Project has collaborated with Mullvad VPN to launch a new privacy-focused browser. Mullvad browser connects to a VPN instead of a decentralized onion network. Its goal is to make it difficult for companies and advertisers to track users across the internet. Mullvad browser is available on Mac, Linux, and Windows. It looks and functions like Firefox. ⚡ Quick Links Dogecoin jumps over 30% after Musk changes Twitter logo to image of shiba inu (2 minute read) Attorneys for Twitter and Elon Musk recently asked a federal judge to dismiss a $258 billion lawsuit from 2022 that accused the billionaire of manipulating Dogecoin's price. FastChat (GitHub Repo) FastChat is a platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language model based chatbots. Google to cut down on employee laptops, services and staplers for 'multi-year' savings (4 minute read) Google will cut down on fitness classes, stationary, and the frequency of laptop replacements. How to run a shadow library: operations at Anna’s Archive (6 minute read) An article on how to run a search engine for shadow libraries and the challenges that come with operating a website with questionable legal status. Silicon Valley Private School Giving Kids "AI Tutors" Quietly Created by OpenAI (2 minute read) Khanmigo is an AI-powered tutor from Khan Lab School created with the help of OpenAI. Lago (GitHub Repo) Lago is a usage-based billing API for product-led Saas. 👨‍💻 Jobs PathAI - Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Full-stack (Fully Remote, $135,000 - $180,000) PathAI is hiring a Software Engineer to build new features and refactor existing ones for a company on a mission to improve patient outcomes with AI-powered pathology. HTC Global Services - Salesforce Health Cloud Functional Analyst (Fully Remote, $100,000 - $140,000) HTC Global Services is hiring a Salesforce Health Cloud Functional Analyst to develop and update case management business processes, collaborate with teams on Salesforce functionality, gather user requirements, and more, for a company that provides IT and Business Process Services and Solutions that help businesses make digital change happen. Xceed - Senior Backend Developer (Fully Remote, $40,000 - $70,000) Xceed is hiring a Senior Backend Developer to contribute to product growth and the development of new functionalities, participate in API design, improve existing code and functionalities, and more, for a venture-backed startup on a mission to create a world where everyone can live extraordinary experiences. You may also like to see more jobs or hire through our free job board. 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