Calling developers of all skill levels! Secure Code Warrior is launching their 2nd free-to-enter, international Devlympics Tournament on October 19-20. Put your secure coding skills to the test and compete against your peers to be crowned The Ultimate Warrior (and win awesome prizes)!
During the 24 hours of the event, you’ll have a chance to showcase your programming in tournaments covering web, mobile, APIs, and more. Find and fix vulnerabilities in hands-on coding missions. Code your way to the top of the leaderboard… and win cash prizes.
SpaceX is planning a mission that will fly space tourists to the moon and back on a week-long trip. The flight will carry up to 12 passengers within 125 miles of the lunar surface before returning to Earth. Entrepreneur Dennis Tito, who became the first private space tourist after visiting the International Space Station in 2001, and his wife Akiko have purchased tickets for the mission. The date for the mission has yet to be determined, but it will likely be years from now.
Google is launching passkey betas on Chrome and Android. Passkeys trade WebAuthn cryptographic keys with websites directly, removing the need for humans or password managers to enter text into a textbox. The passkey system requires users to have their phones nearby connected to their devices over Bluetooth. Google plans to release stable implementations of passkey support for Chrome and Android later this year. Screenshots of the new feature are available in the article.
Porotech's DynamicPixelTuning technology can be used to create displays where every pixel is capable of outputting all colors. The technology can produce displays with four times the resolution in the same package. It could be used to create very high-resolution head-mounted displays for AR and VR. Porotech will show off the technology to the public for the first time at CES next year.
DishBrain is a culture of 800,000 mice and human brain cells created by biotech startup Cortical Labs. The mice cells were derived from embryonic brains while the human cells were created from stem cells. DishBrain is considered too primitive to be conscious, but it was able to learn how to play Pong within just a few minutes. The cell culture could potentially be used as a stand-in for the human brain in future studies.
pitchfork is a preforking HTTP server for Rack applications. It maximizes Copy-on-Write performance to minimize memory usage. pitchfork is designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections. It is still considered experimental and should not be run in production.
SafeQL is a tool for writing SQL queries. It features automatic type inference with validation and it is compatible with any PostgreSQL client. SafeQL was built with monorepos and microservices in mind and it is easy to use with multiple databases. A short video demo is available.
Need CSV import functionality in your product? OneSchema improves import completion rates by automatically correcting customer data. It handles edge cases, lets you edit data in bulk, and makes importing data a breeze. It’s easier for your customers to use and takes 30 minutes to get running in your app. See how OneSchema works
87% of teenagers in a survey of 14,500 teens across the US own an iPhone. iPhone ownership among teens in the US has more than doubled in the last decade. 31% of the surveyed teens owned an Apple Watch. High iPhone usage among teens bodes well for Apple's service products.
This article tells the story of what happened to Jamie Tanna in the year after making a blog post where they revealed their salary history. Many people were grateful for the post. It revealed that people are still discussing their salaries privately. The post did not result in any negative effects for Tanna and it even helped with negotiations. It affected the local job market by showing recruiters what salary and progression looked like elsewhere.
