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Big Tech &
Startups
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Science &
Futuristic Technology
Europe to mine moon for Oxygen and Water by 2025 (1 minute read)
The European Space Agency has signed a one-year contract to study and prepare for a mission to go to the moon to mine regolith. Regolith is an ore that you can extract water and oxygen from, so mining it would be a key component of building a permanent moon colony.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
VSCode Browser Preview (GitHub Repo)
This is a tool that gives you a real browser preview inside your VSCode editor so you can debug in real time. It uses a headless Chrome instance under the hood.
LASER (GitHub Repo)
This is a library open soured by Facebook that represents sentences in a language agnostic way, so you can easily translate sentences into many languages including ones where training data is extremely limited. It's built on top of PyTorch.
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Miscellaneous
Future Chrome update may kill ad-blocking extensions (1 minute read)
Google has proposed a change to Chromium (the engine that runs the Chrome web browser) that would kill ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin and uMatrix. This change would have performance benefits, but would also greatly limit what adblockers are able to block. This is just a proposal at the moment, so it's still possible Google could change their mind.