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Learn how you can invest today. 📱 Big Tech & Startups Galaxy S24 leaks show Samsung’s usual love for the iPhone (2 minute read) Details about Samsung's Galaxy S24 devices, expected to be out in early 2024, have been leaked. The CAD-derived renders for the S24 Ultra, S24, and S24 Plus show the important parts of the device down to the millimeter. The Plus and base models will share a design that features a flat metal band that wraps around the perimeter. The Ultra version has the same Ultra design used since the S22. It is rumored to have a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, a 5000 mAh battery, and 2TB of max storage. Apple considers huge bid for global Formula 1 streaming rights (1 minute read) Apple is rumored to be eyeing Formula 1 as its next big sports investment. The company is reportedly considering an offer worth about $2 billion per year that would make it the exclusive streaming rights holder of Formula 1 racing. Apple will not be able to secure global rights for a while due to existing contracts. The company is also rumored to be considering deals with various other sports leagues, including the NBA, English Premier League, and NFL Sunday Ticket. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology Inside The Small World of Simulating Other Worlds (26 minute read) Space scientists study the physiology and psychology of people living in the Antarctic and other remote outposts due to their similarities with other worlds. There are around 20 analog space facilities around the world that host volunteers for isolation studies over weeks or months in polar stations, desert outposts, and even sealed habitats inside NASA centers. The research helps scientists test medical and software tools, enhance indoor agriculture, and address the difficulties analog astronauts face. How researchers remade ‘the world’s most widely used petrochemical’ – without using fossil fuels (6 minute read) Ethylene, the world's most widely produced and used petrochemical, is used to make products lightweight, durable, or waterproof. Conventional ethylene production releases enormous amounts of greenhouse gasses. CERT Systems Inc. has developed a technology that removes fossil fuels from the process of producing ethylene. The technology works at ambient temperatures, uses renewable energy, and produces no harmful emissions. CERT's process could be used to make other carbon-based building block chemicals. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science 😘 Kiss bugs goodbye with fully automated end-to-end test coverage (Sponsor) QA Wolf gets web apps to 80% automated end-to-end test coverage in just 4 months. They are a tech-enabled service that creates and maintains your test suite in open-source Playwright (no vendor lock-in, you own the code) and provides unlimited parallel test runs on their infrastructure. What's better is QA Wolf offers test coverage at a significantly lower cost than trying to build, run, and maintain it in-house. They have multiple case studies of customers saving at least $200k/year in QA engineering and infrastructure costs. Schedule a demo to learn more. Database Migrations (16 minute read) Database migrations can be one of the most annoying problems to deal with for a software engineer. There are a ton of things to consider when doing database migrations. This article discusses the complexities that arise during database migrations. It covers why they can be hard, why nobody wants to work with them, different scenarios, downtime, and more. The article concludes with a list of best practices. CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas (Probably, Eventually) (2 minute read) CSS has implemented auto-expanding textareas. It is already available in the Chrome Canary with the web experiments flag enabled. It is unknown whether the feature will be usable across all browsers or if it will ship in the same format. 🎁 Miscellaneous The 5 weirdest Sam Bankman-Fried stories Michael Lewis told to '60 Minutes' (3 minute read) Sam Bankman-Fried apparently wanted to pay Donald Trump not to run for president. He played a video game during his first TV interview. Bankman-Fried was friends with Tom Brady, who reportedly adored him. He was invited to sponsor the Met Gala as a social experiment. Bankman-Fried faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted. His biggest fear is potentially losing access to the internet. Mark Zuckerberg Was Interviewed In VR With Prototype Photorealistic Avatars (2 minute read) Meta's Codec Avatars is a research project that aims to revolutionize remote communication using headsets with face-tracking sensors and eventually glasses. A video was recently released showing Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed in VR using the technology. The interview was conducted through a set of Quest Pro headsets, with the interviewer frequently expressing feelings of disbelief at what they were experiencing. The video is available in the article. ⚡ Quick Links We developed Python in Excel (Reddit Thread) Members of the engineering team that created Python in Excel answer questions from Reddit users about Python in Excel and Copilot for Python in Excel. The Humane Ai Pin makes its debut on the runway at Paris Fashion Week (1 minute read) Pictures of the Humane Ai Pin are available in the article - there still isn't much yet known about what the device actually does. Watch this pendulum robot go 37mph, carry up to 100kg of boxes (2 minute video) evoBOT features a design that eliminates the need for an external counterweight, making it space-saving, lightweight, and permanently balanced. Bruno (GitHub Repo) Bruno is an IDE for exploring and testing APIs. Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor (9 minute read) A look at Mozilla's projects and how the company could be a real competitor to Google. Is AI a Platform Shift? (4 minute read) AI turns the marginal cost of content to zero and drastically changes workflows, making it likely to be the next dominant layer on which applications are built. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters for founders, AI, information security, design, marketing, crypto, and web dev! We help cutting edge companies hire world class technical talent through our job listings. 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