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Sign Up|Hire|Advertise|View Online TLDR TLDR 2023-08-28 📱 Big Tech & Startups Major iPad Pro overhaul planned for 2024, including new Magic Keyboard with bigger trackpad (2 minute read) Apple is planning a major update to the iPad Pro for next year. The new iPad Pros will have slightly larger OLED displays and a revamped Magic Keyboard. They will feature M3 chips. The new Magic Keyboard will have a larger trackpad to make the iPad Pro more like a laptop. Apple will release the new iPad Pro in the spring or summer of next year. No updates to the devices are planned between now and then. Tesla wins permit approval for Diner and Drive-in Movie Supercharger in LA (4 minute read) Tesla has won permit approval for its Diner and Drive-In Movie Supercharger in Los Angeles. The site will house 32 Supercharger stalls, a restaurant, rooftop seating, and two movie theater screens. It was originally going to be built in Santa Monica. A copy of the approval documents is available in the article. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology IBM’s AI Chip May Find Use in Generative AI (3 minute read) IBM's latest AI chip is more than a dozen times as energy efficient as conventional microchips on automated transcription tasks. It is capable of 12.4 trillion operations per second per watt. When tested on speech recognition tasks, the chip was able to perform as accurately as neural networks run on conventional hardware while completing the job seven times as fast and up to 14 more efficiently. The chip can support transformers and may be beneficial for many types of AI systems. We are not empty (20 minute read) There are no empty spaces within an atom. The empty atom picture often shown in popular science is incorrect. It is unclear who created the myth, but it was popularized in Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series. This essay explains why the idea of an empty atom is wrong by carefully interpreting quantum theory. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science GitHub Profile Template (GitHub Repo) This repository contains a GitHub profile template that can be forked for personal use. The template provides a quick overview of the user's skills and activity across GitHub and other platforms using animated graphs and other components. 8 Reasons Why WhatsApp Was Able to Support 50 Billion Messages a Day With Only 32 Engineers (7 minute read) This post outlines the engineering techniques that WhatsApp used to scale quickly. WhatsApp was able to support 50 billion messages a day from 450 million daily active users with only 32 engineers. The company focused on messaging, its core feature, and eliminated feature creep at all costs. With this focus, the team was able to prioritize reliability over everything else. 🎁 Miscellaneous The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction (6 minute read) This article looks at the history of North Korean Sci-Fi and how it changed throughout the decades. North Korean Sci-Fi has its roots in Soviet literature. Kim Il-sung, the founder of North Korea, thought that literature could be used to push propaganda and recommended that authors translate Soviet works. They were also told to write their own stories depicting a thriving communist society. WordPress Now Offers a 100-Year Plan for Domains (1 minute read) WordPress has a new plan that allows users to register and host their websites for a century. It is aimed at providing companies and families a way to preserve content beyond a generation. The plan includes unmetered bandwidth and 24/7 personalized support. It costs $38,000. WordPress will keep multiple backups of the content across distributed data centers. ⚡ Quick Links Tech elites plot new invention: A North Bay city (9 minute read) The group had plans to transform tens of thousands of acres to create a city that would generate thousands of jobs and be as walkable as Paris. X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature (2 minute read) X has rolled out its Hiring feature in beta and job postings are already showing up on some accounts. The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (8 minute read) Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles that are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, but observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging. Instacart files to go public on Nasdaq to try and unfreeze tech IPO market (8 minute read) Instacart's IPO may be the first significant venture-backed tech IPO since December 2021. Could sand be the next lithium? (8 minute read) Sand is abundant and able to store energy with almost no limits. Preparing For Commercial Chiplets (13 minute read) This article contains excerpts from a live discussion about the path to commercialization of chiplets with several major figures in the industry. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters for founders, AI, cybersecurity, crypto, and web dev! We help cutting edge companies hire world class technical talent through our job listings. If you're hiring software engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers, designers or other tech talent, click here to learn more. If your company is interested in reaching an audience of tech executives, decision-makers and engineers, you may want to advertise with us. If you have any comments or feedback, just respond to this email! Thanks for reading, Dan Ni and Stephen Flanders If you don't want to receive future editions of TLDR, please click here to unsubscribe.