China's Chang'e-6 mission aims to land on the far side of the moon and collect up to 2,000 grams of lunar material to return to Earth. The mission will also include international scientific payloads from France, Sweden, Italy, and Pakistan. The launch time has yet to be disclosed, but navigation warnings indicate that the launch is expected early Friday. China plans to send a crewed mission to the Moon by 2030 and establish a permanent lunar base through the International Lunar Research Station program in the 2030s.
The long-sought thorium transition has been found. This discovery promises revolutionary technological applications and could answer the question of whether the constants of nature are actually constant or whether they change in space and time. It makes it possible to combine classical quantum physics and nuclear physics. The technology can be used for precision measurements. It could create new types of clocks that would be significantly more accurate than the best atomic clocks available today and devices that analyze the gravitational field around Earth to provide indications of mineral resources or earthquakes.
QA Wolf [9] gets web apps to 80% automated test coverage in just 4 months. They build and maintain your automated test suite, plus provide unlimited parallel test runs (24-hour maintenance included). Skeptical? This case study shows how Salesloft saves $750k/year [10] in QA engineering + executes 300+ tests in parallel on every PR in minutes.
GitHub Copilot Workspace is a platform where any developer can go from idea to code to software in natural language. It allows developers to brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language and tweak different Copilot-powered agents. GitHub Copilot Workspace is designed to enhance developer creativity and materially lower the barrier to entry to building software. This article provides an introduction to the platform along with an overview of how to use it.
Dokploy is a free self-hostable Platform-as-a-Service. It simplifies the deployment and management of applications and databases. Dokploy allows developers to deploy applications efficiently and securely on any VPS. It features Traefik integration, real-time monitoring, database backups, and more.
gpt2-chatbot recently appeared in the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, demonstrating greater compatibility than any previously known GPT-2 model. There is little information about the model listed on the site or elsewhere. This article explores the model and its capabilities. The model appears to be based on the GPT-4 architecture and consistently provides different outputs than models from other companies. It can be more performant than certain other models in specific domains. It is possible that this mystery model is in fact GPT-4.5.
Google has laid off staff across key teams like Flutter, Dart, Python, and others ahead of its annual I/O developer conference in May. The company says that the layoffs aim to help it simplify its structures to give employees more opportunities to work on innovative and important advances while reducing bureaucracy and layers. Some employees were asked to onboard their off-shore replacements. Affected employees will be able to apply for other open roles at Google.
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If a judge chooses to deny the Internet Archive's appeal, which is likely, the site may be faced with more lawsuits and forced to remove content of questionable copyright.
Techstars experienced two weeks of chaos after Silicon Valley Bank's collapse - SVB's parent company was a major investor in Techstars and Techstars had a sizable deposit in SVB.
As long as you're providing value to people and/or having fun doing it, it doesn't matter what technical choices you make - things will change, but programmers will still be around writing useful programs.
Investors' reaction to Meta's recent earning call shows skepticism about the company's short to medium-term future - this article looks at the company's long-term prognosis.
Bugs sneak out when less than 80% of user flows are tested before shipping. But getting that kind of coverage — and staying there — is hard and pricey for any sized team.
Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI to use its generative AI technology to power new features coming to the iPhone later this year. The companies were discussing a deal earlier this year, but work between the two parties has been minimal since then. Apple is still in discussions with Google about licensing the Gemini chatbot. It is unclear which provider Apple plans to eventually use.
Apple's 'Let Loose' event will be held on May 7 at 7 AM Pacific Time. There is a strong possibility that Apple will announce iPad Pros with M4 chips, a new Apple Pencil with haptic feedback, a 12.9-inch version of the iPad Air, and a redesigned Magic Keyboard for iPads. The event will be streamed on Apple's website and YouTube.
The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League has held its first race. The driverless Dallara Super Formula racers, outfitted with cameras and software, struggled to complete a full lap during qualifying time trials. Cars randomly juked, spun, and stopped during the trial. During the actual race, the lead racer spun out - and two out of the other three remaining cars stopped, unwilling to pass the spun-out car due to their rules. Clips from the race are available in the article.
Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has survived three lunar nights. SLIM was only designed to last until the end of its first lunar day. Some of its electronics and batteries were already malfunctioning after the second lunar night. The sensors and other functions in the lander are gradually being lost, so the chances of it surviving a fourth lunar night are slim.
The React 19 Beta is now available on npm. The update includes new hooks, new APIS, and support for using async functions in transitions to handle pending states, errors, forms, and optimistic updates automatically. There are breaking changes, but they should not impact most apps. This article details the new features in the beta.
Google has asked its recently laid-off Python Foundation team to train its replacements, who will be in the Munich office. The company similarly laid off its finance department a few weeks ago, moving positions outside of the country where they are cheaper. The Python Foundation team maintained a stable version of Python within Google, tools to keep thousands of third-party packages constantly updated from their open source versions, highly customized tools, and much more. It also acted as a help desk for Python users at Google. The team performed its duties for years with fewer than 10 people.
This article looks at how the industry does takehome assessments. The median time for takehome assessments in the industry is 3 hours, with the longest taking 10 days. Only around 10% of companies compensate candidates for their work. The main complaints engineers have with takehome assessments are that they fail to define reasonable time caps and the requirements are open-ended. The majority of companies issuing takehomes are design studios, lean web development agencies, and mobile dev teams based out of Eastern Europe.
iPhones are just phones. Apple has been building the walls of its garden higher and higher to ensure customers use its own products and nothing else, but those walls are now threatening to come tumbling down. It no longer feels urgent to replace smartphones every few years. Apple's strategy of restricting users and developers is starting to fail as laws are being implemented to increase consumer choice. Being forced to react to regulations will make it harder for Apple to be a visionary, future-forward company.
Elon Musk wants to enable Full Self Driving in China and transfer data collected abroad to train its algorithms - Tesla is willing to cooperate with China to achieve mutually beneficial results.
This post, written by game developers who have released games built using a variety of coding languages, dispels commonly used arguments about Rust, such as that beginners are only facing the problems they are dealing with because they haven't learned or tried hard enough.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has released the highest-resolution geological maps of the Moon yet, revealing a total of 12,341 craters, 81 basins, and 17 rock types, along with other basic geological information about the lunar surface, at a scale of 1:2,500,000.
Sleep sort is a quirky way to sort numbers that involves making numbers 'sleep' for a bit before joining the sorted list - it may not be the fastest way to sort numbers, but it is interesting because it is so different.
What's next for fintech? What are the biggest opportunities for your business? How can you stay ahead of the latest trends? Get all the answers in Plaid's 2024 Fintech Predictions [4] report, including exclusive insights and analysis from Plaid's Co-founder and CEO, Zach Perret.
ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company. The US only provides a quarter of TikTok's global revenue and only represents 5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all of its media platforms. The short deadline to sell would likely put downward pressure on any potential sale price, making the option even less appealing. Selling the company would mean divesting the algorithms that power TikTok and its video recommendations, which raises more complications.
Oracle has moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to offer its employees a better lifestyle. Nashville pledged $175 million in incentives and the state of Tennessee $65 million to help build the Oracle campus in 2021. There were no additional incentives from the city ahead of Oracle's headquarters announcement. Oracle plans to get closer to the healthcare industry - the Nashville area's healthcare industry employs more than 300,000 people and adds $68 billion to the Nashville region's economy.
Intelligent androids will be a part of industrial activities and aspects of everyday life over the next decade. Modern AI models have changed the game, allowing robots to learn from online text, images, and videos. This article takes a look at the modern robotics industry, highlighting new technologies, current capabilities, potential applications, major players in the space, and the impacts the technology will have on society.
Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting. Voyager 1 is on an outbound trajectory more than 15 billion miles from Earth, so it takes almost two days for engineers to uplink a command and get a response. The spacecraft suddenly stopped transmitting intelligible data in November. Engineers eventually found the issue, which was in the system responsible for packaging engineering and scientific data for transmission to Earth. A single chip responsible for storing a portion of memory stopped working, probably due to either a cosmic ray hit or a failure of aging hardware.
The container landscape is changing, with many organizations exploring innovative technologies such as serverless containers and GPU-based computing. Datadog [9] examined more than 2.4 billion containers [9] run by tens of thousands of customers. This report distills their 10 key findings on container usage, security, and implementation patterns. Download 10 Insights On Real-World Container Usage (PDF) from Datadog
The llamafile project has become one of Mozilla's top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub. llamafile is an easy and fast way to run a wide range of open large language models on consumer hardware. This article covers the project's development, explaining the changes that have been implemented since v0.1. The latest release includes support for the very latest open models and a number of big performance improvements for CPU inference.
The crystalruby project allows writing and running Crystal methods inline inside a Ruby file, bringing significant performance improvements to code compared to their pure Ruby versions. However, the Ruby implementation the project uses contains a subtle mistake that causes significantly more work than it needs to. Fixing this mistake makes the Ruby code run faster than the 'crystalized' method. Future advancements in the Ruby JIT may make these small tweaks unnecessary.
Startups and megacorps have used and abused open source to build up billions in revenue over the past decade. Corporate Open Source has died - open source cultures rely on trust, and time and time companies have shattered that trust with the developers who helped build them. Contributor License Agreements are a strategy employed by commercial companies to subvert the open source social contract. Developers should stay away from projects that require them and stick to open source licenses that respect their freedom.