Google Pixel Fold leaks 📱, Slack's new dev platform 👨‍💻, Bill Gates on AI 🤖

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First-ever live footage surfaces (2 minute read) A video of the Pixel Fold opening and closing was posted on Twitter over the weekend. Previous leaks of the renders were pretty accurate. The device will probably launch at a price of around $1,700. Google will hopefully make an announcement about the device at its upcoming I/O event. The video is available in the article. Apple’s App Store can stay closed but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals court (3 minute read) An appeals court has found that Apple's closed App Store and security restrictions don't violate antitrust law. Apple is still required to allow users to learn about alternate payment options. iOS developers are free to send customers to other places to make payments to avoid paying Apple a commission. Apple has recently taken steps to address mounting antitrust concerns, including introducing ways for reader apps to link to their own sites to bypass Apple's in-app payment system. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology A Japanese company is about to attempt a Moon landing (2 minute read) The Hakuto-R mission will attempt to land on the Moon as early as today at around 11:40 am ET. The landing attempt will start from an altitude of about 100 km above the lunar surface, where the spacecraft is currently in a circular orbit, and the process should take about an hour. The lander is carrying several payloads down to the surface. A link to the livestream for the event is available in the article. China makes major push in its ambitious digital yuan project (3 minute read) Public sector workers in Changshu, China, will be paid fully in digital yuan starting in May. This will be the biggest rollout of the e-CNY so far. The city has 1.7 million residents. It has already been experimenting with the digital currency for some time. There is no timeline for a nationwide launch yet. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Rye (GitHub Repo) Rye is a tool that can manage Python installations, pyproject.toml files, dependencies, virtualenvs, monorepos, and tools. Its virtualenvs are completely void of dependencies. Dependencies are managed in pyproject.toml without exposing pip. Rye uses indygreg's Python builds instead of system Python. Slack launches next-gen API for creating integrations and automations (3 minute read) Slack's new platform for developers is now officially available. The next-generation API uses a modular architecture that makes it easy to create Slack integrations and automations. It will be free for everyone to use until October 31. Advanced features will be subject to additional costs after October 31. More details about the new API are available in the article. Segment is now free for early-stage startups. Here’s why we love it. (Sponsor) We’re big fans of Segment. It simplifies tracking (client and server-side), so you don’t need to log every event with 8 different tools. It empowers marketing, so they can install tools without bugging an engineer (crazy?). And it pumps data from various tools into others (e.g., Intercom ⇒ Mixpanel). Early stage startup? Apply here to get Segment for free. 🎁 Miscellaneous A fireside chat on education, technology, and almost everything in between (29 minute read) Bill Gates talked with Jessie Woolley-Wilson, a leader in the field of education technology, during this year's ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego. During the talk, they discussed the state of education technology, what the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is doing, and the impact AI will have in the months and years ahead. This article contains a transcript of the conversation. A video of the talk is also available. ‘The flattening’: tech sector calls time on middle managers (6 minute read) The flattening is a phenomenon where tech companies are cutting out the middle managers that they hired in droves during the pandemic boom. Tech companies are focusing on the role as they aim to improve efficiency and cut costs. The bloated middle management positions have led to inefficiencies and drawn out decision-making at some companies. These inefficiencies became more obvious after the shift to remote work during the pandemic. ⚡ Quick Links Amazon’s quiet open source revolution (3 minute read) Keeping their code closed resulted in a piling up of technical debt, making it more difficult to give customers what they wanted, so Amazon has started to open up some of its projects. What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’ (11 minute read) Employees who work in the office receive lots of feedback, which can help them move up in their careers faster. Tech Billionaires Bet on Fusion as Holy Grail for Business (9 minute read) Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and Sam Altman are all betting that fusion reactors are within years of being a reality. Scoped CSS is back (6 minute read) The W3C spec for Scoped CSS is mostly stable and there is a working prototype in Chrome. What’s the point of tech conferences? (15 minute read) Almost everyone benefits from conferences in some way because of the connections that are made at these events. The UK will spend £100 million to develop its own 'sovereign' AI (2 minute read) The UK government has pledged an initial £100 million to create an AI that makes the country globally competitive. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! TLDR Talent is our exclusive community where we help world-class tech talent and get intros to companies of their choice, along with a number of exciting startups and tech companies curated by TLDR. 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