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Amazon starts drone delivery trials in California and Texas (2 minute read)
Amazon has launched drone delivery trials in select locations in California and Texas. Customers in these areas will be able to order items to be delivered by drone in the usual way. The service has been in development since 2013. Amazon will launch a new aircraft design in 2024. Rules governing commercial drone flights are still strict, but Amazon is working to persuade regulators that its drones are capable of safe and reliable operation.
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Microsoft’s making Excel’s formulas even easier (2 minute read)
Microsoft recently announced new features for Excel to help users automate some tasks that previously had to be done manually. Formula Suggestions will attempt to intelligently suggest sum, average, count, counta, min, and max formulas for users given different contexts. Formula by Example can automatically detect patterns in data and fill out the rest of a column. Other new features include the ability to add images with alt-text, nested Power Query data types, and a feature that will automatically help fix broken links.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment (3 minute read)
Around 1,000 neuroscientists attended a symposium called Psychedelics and Neural Plasticity at San Diego to hear about how psychedelic drugs can alter individual brain cells, rewire the brain, and treat disorders ranging from depression to chronic pain. These drugs can have long-lasting impacts, with clinical effects lasting months or years. However, they can also cause negative effects like nausea or unpleasant hallucinations. The large attendance at the symposium suggests that psychedelics are poised to soon enter the scientific mainstream.
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Scientists develop blood test for Alzheimer’s disease (2 minute read)
Scientists have developed a blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's disease without the need for brain imaging or a lumbar puncture. The antibody-based blood test could enable faster diagnosis of the disease and faster initiation of therapy. It detects a particular form of protein that is specifically related to Alzheimer's disease. The test still needs to be validated with a broader range of patients.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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microfeed (GitHub Repo)
microfeed is a lightweight content management system that can be self-hosted on Cloudflare. It allows users to easily publish a variety of content, including podcasts, images, videos, websites, and more to a feed in the form of web, RSS, and JSON. microfeed is designed for tech-savvy individuals who want to self-host their own CMS without having to run their own servers.
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Numba (Website)
Numba is a JIT compiler that translates a subset of Python and NumPy code into fast machine code. It is designed to be used with NumPy arrays and functions. Compiled Numba algorithms can approach the speeds of C or FORTRAN. Users just have to apply one of the Numba decorators to their Python functions. Numba works well with Jupyter notebooks and with distributed execution frameworks.
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Laid Off Tech Workers Quickly Find New Jobs (10 minute read)
Most laid off tech workers are quickly finding new employment. Studies show that tech workers are still the most sought-after workers with the most in-demand skills. Federal Reserve interest rate increases and high inflation are causing the broader economy to falter. Tech firms making cuts are still outnumbering those that are hiring. While job openings are down from record highs, they still far exceed the number of unemployed Americans.
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Side Project Guide (Website)
Many developers choose to write their own code and build tools during breaks from work. A lot of great apps, such as GitHub and Instagram, started off as side projects. This site contains a guide on how to increase the probability that a side project will survive. It covers how to decide whether an idea is good, how to develop a side project quickly, how to tell people about a side project, and how to monetize a size project.
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