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📱 WhatsApp adds option to use the same account on multiple phones

WhatsApp will now allow users to use the same account on multiple phones, making it useful for businesses or individuals who use more than one phone regularly, with messages syncing across devices regardless of their operating systems.

👓 Everything we know about Apple’s mixed reality headset

Apple's mixed reality headset is expected to be announced and released in 2023, rumored to be called the 'Reality Pro', with a price point of around $3,000, and capability for both virtual and augmented reality experiences, including features such as hand and eye tracking, an operating system called xrOS, games, and an external battery pack.```

🤔 Tetris’ creators reveal the game’s greatest unsolved mysteries

Tetris creators Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers discuss the game's earliest origins and unsolved mysteries, including the origin of "the Tetris song" and how the game was originally programmed in 700 to 800 lines of PASCAL on a Russian Elektronika 60.

🚀 NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently located 12 billion miles away from Earth, will be able to keep all five of its scientific instruments active until 2026 after a recent adjustment redirected a tiny amount of power meant for an onboard safety system, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab press release, with the move extending the life and data-gathering abilities of the spacecraft that was launched in 1977.

🚜 Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

Colorado becomes the first state to enact a right-to-repair law for farmers and ranchers, requiring manufacturers to provide repair parts, embedded software, and documentation, and considering failing to provide such resources a deceptive trade practice.

👋 It’s the end of the line for yearly Windows 10 updates, says Microsoft

Microsoft has announced that the upcoming Windows 10 version 22H2 will be the last version of the operating system, and although security updates will continue to be released until October 2025, there will be no more yearly feature updates for the software.

🎥 Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

Director Steven Spielberg criticized the practice of re-editing older films to appease modern sensitivities and expressed remorse over removing guns in a later edition of ET, saying "no film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily, or being forced to peer through."

🍎 Report describes Apple’s “organizational dysfunction”, “lack of ambition” in AI

According to a new report from The Information, Apple's "organizational dysfunction" and "lack of ambition" in AI has made it less competitive in the field compared to companies like Google, due to its conservative approach to using AI as a tool to improve the user experience rather than disrupting existing industries.

🚀 NASA’s next space station will be 1k times farther from Earth

NASA is planning to build a new space station, the Lunar Gateway, nearly 240,000 miles away from Earth, while other nations such as Russia and India, as well as private companies like AxiomSpace, Nanoracks, BlueOrigin, and Northrop Grumman, are also developing their own space stations closer to home.

💻 New artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer

A team of doctors, scientists, and researchers at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London have developed an artificial intelligence model that can accurately identify cancer, which could potentially speed up the diagnosis of cancer and fast-track patients to treatment, and compared to the current methods the algorithm performs more efficiently and effectively, according to a study published in the Lancet’s eBioMedicine journal.

🤔 Binance.us sailed away from its $1.3B deal with Voyager, now what?

Binance.US has backed out of its $1.3 billion deal to buy Voyager Digital’s assets citing a “hostile and uncertain regulatory climate”, leaving Voyager to return cryptocurrency and cash directly to its customers through its platform after filing for bankruptcy nine months ago with more than 100,000 creditors and assets between $1 billion and $10 billion, while its lawyers reserve rights for the $10 million good-faith deposit made by Binance.US to Voyager in addition to a reverse-termination fee owed by the US-based cryptoexchange.

💻 Microsoft is done with major Windows 10 updates

Microsoft has announced that the next version of Windows 10, Windows 10 22H2, will be the final major update for the operating system, with support for all editions of Windows 10 ending on October 14th, 2025, encouraging users to transition to Windows 11.

🧑 Humanity is the reimagined 3D Lemmings we didn’t know we needed

Enhance's upcoming game "Humanity" steals the show with its surreal and beautiful gameplay, resembling the classic Lemmings concept but with a different, less punishing execution where the player guides a group of soulless, polygonal humans to their final ascension through instructions on cubict tiles.

🚫 John Kerry: relying on technology to remove carbon dioxide is ‘dangerous’

John Kerry warns of the danger of relying too heavily on technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and calls for faster deployment of renewable energy to prevent passing "tipping points" that could trigger unstoppable physical effects leading to climate disaster.

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🔧 My Journey through a Refactor Part 1 (4 min read)

Journey Through Refactoring: Part 1 - Improving Code Quality with DDD and Tests

💬 The Power of Message Orchestration (5 min read)

Unlock the Power of Microservices with Message Orchestration: Simplify Complexity and Optimize Performance!

🏗 Software Architecture and Abstractions for newbie (7 min read)

Unraveling the Mystery of Inversion of Control and Software Architecture - Learn how software architecture patterns, design patterns, abstraction, and Clean Architecture can help you build better software solutions with ease.

🤝 Swift. Design Patterns. 💐 Mediator Pattern (3 min read)

Cut the coupling in your classes with the Mediator Pattern: A flexible solution for common communication patterns between objects

🔨 Swift. Design Patterns. 🃏 Prototype Pattern (3 min read)

Boost your efficiency with the prototype pattern: creating independent object clones made easy

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