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🚀 With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race

Amazon enters the generative AI race with the launch of Amazon Bedrock, which provides a way to build generative AI-powered apps via pretrained models from startups including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI, and gives customers access to Titan FMs, a family of models trained in-house by AWS.

💻 Amazon offers free access to its AI coding assistant to undercut Microsoft

Amazon is offering free access to its AI-powered coding assistant, Code Whisperer, to individual developers in order to undercut Microsoft's fee-based coding tool, Copilot.

🌊 Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean

New research suggests that the formation of Earth may have produced enough water to fill the world's oceans, as chemical reactions on the early Earth could have formed water, which may be common in the formation of rocky planets.

🛰 NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Spots Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids for the First Time

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured the first images of four Trojan asteroids, including Eurybates, Polymele, Leucus, and Orus, as part of its mission to travel to ten asteroids and study their composition and future impact potential, with the data expected to aid NASA in their upcoming close-up observations.

🚀 The 3D-printed box in Texas where humans will prepare for Mars

Starting this June, four volunteers will spend a year in a simulated Mars habitat located in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to prepare for the life on the red planet with limited resources and isolation to evaluate the impact on human health due to resource restrictions and a longer distance from Earth, eventually leading to learn more about the physical and behavioral health of a crew in isolation, and bringing NASA closer to landing humans on Mars by 2030s.

👋 Google will shut down Currents, the work-focused Google Plus replacement

Google has announced it will be shutting down Currents, its work-focused replacement for Google Plus, with the wind-down process starting in 2023 and its replacement, Spaces, being integrated into Gmail.

💥 “A big deal” – Dolly is a free, open-source, ChatGPT-style AI model

Databricks has released Dolly2.0, the first open-source instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that has been fine-tuned with human-generated data crowdsourced from Databricks employees, which could potentially spark a new wave of fully open-source LLMs similar to ChatGPT.

💊 AI suggested 40k new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

An AI system designed to search for helpful drugs has been shown to generate potentially lethal molecules, with researchers using the model to find 40,000 new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Despite concerns over the potential misuse of such technology, the lead author of the paper argued that awareness of the issue will help researchers to be more mindful of the implications surrounding the use of toxicity models.

💥 After decades of lurking, an elusive bacterium finally strikes in California

A Californian man has become the first person in the western US to have a confirmed infection with Borrelia miyamotoi, an elusive bacterium that causes a rare disease called hard tick relapsing fever, which has been spreading across North America since its discovery in Japanese ticks in 1995 but is difficult to identify due to its symptom overlap with other diseases.

🌿 Eco-friendly tires: Bridgestone goes green in new tire test

Tire company Bridgestone has produced a demonstration run of road-going tires using guayule rubber and a high percentage of recycled materials, with aims to test with automakers and prove the concept as a sustainable and environmentally friendly means of tire-making.

🚀 Ars Technica ranks every starship Enterprise

Ars Technica has ranked every starship Enterprise in honor of this week's "Picard," including every version of different Enterprises from reboots, updates, and alternate timelines.

💻 Hackers claim vast access to Western Digital systems

Hackers claim to have stolen around 10 terabytes of data from Western Digital, including customer information, and are pushing the company to negotiate a ransom - of a "minimum 8 figures" - in exchange for not publishing the stolen data, according to one of the hackers who breached the data storage giant's systems.

🤢 We inhale up to 10B mold spores daily: Here’s why you haven’t died yet

Humans inhale billions of mold spores daily, but our immune system has a cleaver technique for protecting against fungi by using a programme of self-destruct buttons, according to a new study led by infectious disease expert Tobias Hohlo of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; this insight into fungal defences could potentially inform new strategies for therapeutic intervention in vulnerable patient groups.

🌌 Iconic image of M87 black hole just got a machine-learning makeover

The iconic image of the M87 supermassive black hole has received a machine-learning makeover using a new algorithm called PRIMO, which compensates for missing information about the object being observed, allowing for higher resolution imaging.

💡📚 Articles

🧱 🔧 Mastering Modularization: A Beginner's Guide to Organizing Complex Software Systems (7 min read)

🧱 Learn how to use modules as building blocks in software development to improve efficiency, reliability, and maintainability in your projects. Don't neglect modularization and the power it holds in breaking down complex systems into smaller, manageable parts. Treat modules as black boxes and only interact with them through public interfaces to avoid coupling and improve modularity. Follow best practices and use internal access and unit testing to create stable and developer-friendly APIs.

🧱 Domain driven architecture in the frontend (I) (13 min read)

Revolutionize Your Frontend Code with Domain Driven Architecture: The What, Why, and How

🤔 What are Creational Design Patterns — Why do I need one? (3 min read)

Learn about Creational Design Patterns and why you need them. Simplify your object-creating process with Factory, Factory Method, and Abstract Factory patterns. Say goodbye to redundant code and complex constructors.

💉 The ultimate guide to dependency injection in Android. What is DI and its benefits. Part 1. (6 min read)

"The Ultimate Guide to Dependency Injection in Android: What It Is and Its Benefits - Part 1" - Learn about the basics of DI and why it's important through a story, plus its benefits such as reusability, ease of refactoring, and testing.

📈 The Rise of Newer API Architectures and What It Tells Us (4 min read)

Unlocking the Power of New API Architectures: Streamlining Data Exchange between Systems

🏗 What are the first steps you take when starting a new thing from scratch? (1 min read)

Starting fresh or adding to the existing, here's what you need to know before diving into a new project.

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