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ISSUE #24 - August 27th

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✨Feature Announcement📢

One of the most awaited feature—GitHub Readme Profile Generator—is scheduled for launch on August 27 at Product Hunt! Your support and feedback would mean a lot to us. Please check us out on Product Hunt today. Here is an exclusive invite for you to try out this new awesome feature!

#READ

Google research AI image noise reduction is out of this world

MultiNeRF is a project from Google Research that includes algorithms designed to improve image quality, especially in low-light scenes. The algorithms can remove noise from images to improve their quality, find out more about this in this article.

Why Stacking Chips Like Pancakes Could Mean a Huge Leap for Laptops?

Intel's new Meteor Lake and Ponte Vecchio processors will use packaging to reach faster speeds. Packaging involves linking several chiplets into one larger processor like Apple does with the M1 Max and M1 Ultra, but with a much lower price tag.

Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes

James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to the Hubble Telescope, has captured new images of Jupiter that show the planet's turbulent atmosphere. The telescope's observations will provide scientists with even more clues about the planet's inner life.

Electrical currents to the brain improve memory for older adults, study finds

Scientists used a swim cap-like device studded with electrodes to deliver electric currents to specific parts of the brain. The electrical stimulation helped improve the brain's growth and changed areas important for memory. The scientists plan to test the device on people with Alzheimer's disease.

A look inside the EPUB file format: a great way to publish content using an open format.

EBooks provide a great way to read books, magazines and other content on the go.The most popular eBook file format is the EPUB file, short for "electronic publication." EPUB files are supported across a variety of eReaders.

#WATCH

Though colonizing Mars may be a difficult task, humans will likely try anyway. This video shows what a successful colonization of the red planet might look like.

Step aside, James Webb, because Elon Musk just put pen to paper on a lucrative deal with NASA that could see SpaceX pocket up to $255 million for the launch, and delivery, of the highly-anticipated Grace Roman Telescope.

This video is the most information-dense introduction to group theory you'll see on youtube. If you're a computer scientist nd have always wondered what group theory is useful for and why it exists, as well as why it even exists, you will want to watch this video.

The Azure Developer Associate certification is an entry-level certification. To achieve this certification, you will need to pass one exam: AZ-204. This course will help you prepare for the exam with a series of lectures and hands-on experience to teach you all of the necessary concepts.

If you were missing out on Stability Diffusion (Stable Diffusion) without GPU or any intense coding, here's a simple tutorial to use the Stability AI (Stable Diffusion) API to generate AI art images.

Microservices are an application architecture pattern that decomposes an application into smaller services. Learn about the differences between a monolithic to microservices architecture, monorepo vs polyrepo, and how microservices connect with each other in this video.

#CODE

Nutshell: make expandable explanations

Nutshell is a tool to make "expandable explanations". They can even be recursive. This lets your readers learn only the details they need, just-in-time, always-in-context.

Exploring CSS Grid’s Implicit Grid and Auto-Placement Powers

CSS Grid has been around for years, but there are still a lot of little-known and not widely discussed tricks. The implicit grid and auto-placement features are two of them! Check this article to learn more about the implicit grid with indepth explanations and examples.

What Makes A Great Toggle Button? (Case Study, Part 1)

In this first part of a two-part article, Eduard Kuric analyzes the characteristics of effective toggle buttons that make it error-proof and prevent confusion and frustration of users.

Astro 1.0 | Astro

Astro is a website framework for building fast, content-focused websites. Performance is powered by Astro's next-gen island architecture. Learn more about Astro 1.0 release and their fresh new website, plus what people are saying about Astro.

#NEWS

How OSS shapes AI policy, open source comes to medical datasets, and more!

Open source software made headlines last month with a number of significant advances. Read on to learn about some of the major advances.

TikTok’s In App Browser Includes Code That Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

TikTok's in-app browser inserts code that allows the company to monitor user activity. This includes keystrokes and whatever users tap on the page. The monitoring makes it possible for TikTok to capture information such as passwords or credit card numbers. TikTok claims that it is not using them.

IBM makes open source tookit available to fight software supply chain attacks

IBM announced that it had made an open source tool to increase visibility into software supply chains and detect potential threats before they can do any harm as part of its efforts to help secure the digital economy.

Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here’s how to get in

Pinterest app Shuffles is climbing the App Store's Top Charts. The app allows users to build collages using Pinterest's photo library or by taking pictures. It has a feature similar to iOS 16's forthcoming image cutout feature that lets users cut out objects from photos.

#OPPORTUNITIES

GitHub Campus Experts

GitHub Campus Expert is a free global program that will provide you with exclusive opportunities to learn and grow. Don't miss out on the opportunity to become part of the next generation of student community leaders. Applications closes on September 4, 2022.

LFX Mentorship | The Linux Foundation

The LFX Mentorship program makes it easy to sponsor and help train the next generation of open source developers by serving key needs of the community. Invest in building a strong foundation for new developers by supporting their ongoing training and education.

#OSSSpotlight

SnoopForms: The Open Source Typeform Alternative

SnoopForms lets you build forms without writing code in minutes. All form submissions are processed by the snoopForms platform and you can view the submission in your platform or send it to other systems, services or databases.

Zingg: Scalable entity resolution, data mastering and deduplication using ML

Zingg is an open source data reconciliation and deduplication tool that uses machine learning to identify duplicates. It offers a library of different matching models and can be extended with custom matching functions.

Sidekick: An open source live application debugger.

Sidekick is a live debugger that lets you troubleshoot your applications while they keep on running. Add dynamic logs and put non-breaking breakpoints in your live application without the need of stopping & redeploying.

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