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DevNews S1E5 — Neuralink, Nvidia, Samsung’s Mobile Memory Breakthrough, and a Terrible TikTok Trend 😞

Check out the latest episode of DevNews today!

This week, Saron and I talk about a few developing tech news stories that I think you'll find relevant:

  • A horrible, insensitive, and disheartening "trend" on TikTok that is certainly in violation of any decent Code of Conduct.**
  • Nvidia's new graphics cards, which are based on their new Ampere GPU architecture.
  • Samsung's emerging memory chip, which is made using extreme ultraviolet lithography — possibly a real breakthrough in the field!
  • Elon Musk's "skull FitBit", Neuralink, which was recently presented via a demo wherein the brain-monitoring device was used on three pigs.

While the Neuralink news does sound a bit like a dystopian version of the Three Little Pigs, it does have the potential to be a real game-changer. To shed some more light on this news and its impact, Saron and I were joined by AJ Keller, co-founder of Neurosity, a neurotech company.

** Note: I encourage everyone to take a moment to read this letter from the woman affected by yet another abusive, ableist “trend” on TikTok. We included it in the show notes for today's episode.

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I hope you tune in to the DevNews podcast, where we cut through the impossibly noisy news cycle to surface developer stories that impact many of us in this space. 🗞️🗞️🗞️


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Thanks to @levisharpe for producing & mixing the show, my co-host in this episode, @saronyitbarek, and @vaidehijoshi for editorial oversight. Catch Vaidehi hosting with me in last week's episode.

Finally, thanks to our sponsors, Heroku and Vonage

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Ryota Murakami

dev.to starting Podcast!? I didn't know!

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

@malloc007 yep! We actually have two original podcasts now — not to mention the CodeNewbie podcast!

  • DevNews, as you can see, is all about covering the latest stories in tech that impact developers

  • DevDiscuss is more of a conversational deep-dive into topics and philosophies in tech that are relevant to devs.

You can listen to both on whatever platform you choose. And if you feel compelled to review either, we'd love to send you some stickers

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Ryota Murakami

Wow, Thank you tell me about it! 🤗

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

My pleasure!

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shreya123-coder

Genuinely it's true talk very factual information,guys keep providing us such a great session..

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Ashlee (she/her)

Is there a transcript?

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

@ashleemboyer yep! You can find it here.

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Ashlee (she/her)

Thank you!

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Sunil Vijay

Good start, Love the Dev News Podcast. Go ahead ✨💯

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏