Google Pixel Event 2023 (6 minute read)
Google announced the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2, and many other goodies at its Made By Google event yesterday. This article contains summaries of the most important part of the keynote. The main draw to this year's Pixel phone upgrades seems to be the camera specs and the new Tensor G3 processor. Android 14 has started rolling out to supported Pixel devices and will roll out to other Android devices later this year. |
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150+ IT leaders weigh in on the future of ITSM (Sponsor)
The demands placed on IT service management are constantly changing. In a research report from Appfire and Cprime, 150+ IT leaders and enterprise ITSM experts were asked about the most pressing topics in modern ITSM — process automation, SLA management, cloud migration, and the distributed workforce. Read the report. |
🌘 CSS Scope Inline (GitHub Repo)
CSS Scope Inline monitors the DOM and scopes styles to whatever the parent element is the moment a new style tag is seen. It doesn't touch existing styles, allowing users to mix and match at their leisure. CSS Scope Inline pairs well with HTMX and Surreal. It provides an easy inline vanilla CSS experience without Tailwind CSS. |
TLDR (GitHub Repo)
TLDR is a full-featured, mostly Minitest-compatible Ruby test framework that stops running tests after 1.8 seconds. It shuffles and runs in parallel, allowing developers to catch any problems much earlier than usual. TLDR provides several escape hatches to sequester tests that aren't thread-safe. |
Google Gave the Pixel 8 Cameras a Major Upgrade. Here's How They Did It (9 minute read)
The Google Pixel 8 Pro has an ultrawide angle camera, a main wide-angle camera, and a telephoto camera. A new Video Boost feature improves videos taken in dim and dark conditions. Implementing the feature required a new image sensor technology in the main camera. The Tensor G3 GPU is responsible for preprocessing video for Video Boost. Video Boost relies on compute from Google's data centers to reduce noise, stabilize video, and sharpen low-light images. |
OpenAI Launches Residency Program with $210,000 Annual Salary (3 minute read)
OpenAI's Residency is an initiative to empower exceptional researchers and engineers from diverse fields to transition into the world of AI and machine learning. It is especially beneficial for researchers specializing in fields outside of deep learning and welcomes software engineers seeking to pivot into AI research roles. Residents will tackle real AI challenges while receiving a full salary. |
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