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🔌 How to hardwire your home without ethernet in the walls

The Verge provides tips on how to hardwire your home without Ethernet in the walls, explaining that a wired connection is more stable than Wi-Fi, almost always faster, and has lower latency, and recommends alternatives such as using a long Ethernet cable, MoCA adapters to convert Ethernet to coax and back, or powerline networking.

📺 Hardware startup Telly launches a free smart TV supported by ads

Hardware startup Telly is launching a free smart TV which is entirely supported by ads, with users having to watch 24/7 ads whilst simultaneously streaming TV shows and movies.

🌍 The groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system

The Human Immunome Project, a groundbreaking plan to use artificial intelligence to create a virtual simulation of the entire human immune system, is underway and could potentially transform human health by shedding new light on diseases and providing a blueprint for data sharing and collaboration.

🐠 US professor breaks record for longest time living underwater

A professor from the University of South Florida, Joseph Dituri, broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurization, having lived inside the Jules' Undersea Lodge for 74 days and plans to stay there for 100 days, as part of a project that combines medical, ocean research, and educational outreach.

🌬 The complicated history of how the Earth’s atmosphere became breathable

Scientists are uncovering how the Earth's atmosphere became breathable, and it took a combination of biology, geology, and chemistry to create the present-day atmosphere that we have now, with the evolution of cyanobacteria and hydrogen loss being the two major factors behind the rise of oxygen in the ocean and atmosphere.

🤔 Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British accents?

Young Americans are adopting fake British accents, which they use as a defense mechanism or to add levity in stressful situations, with some attributing the trend to the popularity of UK shows such as Love Island and The Only Way Is Essex. Gen Zers use bad imitations of dialects as a verbal tic, and accent videos have garnered thousands of views on social media platforms. The Peppa Pig effect may also contribute to the trend among younger children.

🤔 Mystery tremors on Danish Baltic island puzzle scientists

Mystery tremors on the Danish island of Bornholm have puzzled scientists, who now say they were caused by "acoustic pressure waves from an unknown source", after initially being thought to be earthquakes and then thought to have come from controlled explosions in Poland.

🍔 Why we need a new definition of junk food

Ultra-processed foods, which are now estimated to make up 60% of our diet, are causing extensive health problems and should be included in national nutrition guidance alongside warnings about salt, fat, and sugar, according to University College London’s Chris van Tulleken. In an article for The Guardian, van Tulleken argued that UPFs pose health risks beyond just the nutritional content they provide, due to the way they are processed, and suggested that public policy changes should focus on improving access to healthier alternatives rather than stigmatising disadvantaged people who rely on cheap, ultra-processed products.

💣 Two students built an A-bomb (2003)

Two physics students, Dave Dobson and Bob Selden, enlisted in a covert Pentagon operation known as the Nth Country Project to answer the question: how easy would it be for a country with no nuclear expertise to build a nuclear bomb? The two men, with no nuclear expertise but both having physics PhDs, were tasked with cracking the "nuclear secret" without access to classified research. Their success in designing an atom bomb in just 30 months 40 years ago reveals that terrorists could easily create a nuclear bomb today if they had access to the right materials.

👶 Talking to babies may help shape brain structure, research finds

New research has found that the amount of adult speech children are exposed to in their early years may help to shape the structure of their brains, and that children with more highly educated mothers were exposed to greater amounts of adult speech and produced more vocalisations, leading to differences in the concentration of myelin in the brain, which surrounds nerves and makes signals more efficient.

🌎 Ex-ByteDance exec claims CCP “maintained” access to U.S. data

A former top executive of ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has claimed in a lawsuit that the Chinese Communist Party had "maintained supreme access" to data belonging to ByteDance, including data stored in the US, via a "backdoor channel in the code."

🚀 A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last Great Observatory

Private company Rhea Space Activity plans to rescue NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope with a robotic rescue mission, following a $250,000 grant from the US Space Force, aiming to send a small spacecraft to resurrect the telescope.

💸 VCs love to talk about AI, but aren’t writing as many checks as you might think

Despite the hype around AI, investment in AI startups has slowed down significantly, with CB Insights reporting a drop of 66% in funding for Q1 2023 compared to a year earlier.

💼 Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition approved by EU regulators

The European Union has approved Microsoft's $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, aided by commitments from Microsoft related to cloud gaming, just weeks after the UK regulators blocked the deal, allowing EU consumers access to Activision Blizzard games on "any cloud game streaming services of their choice" through a free license, but they found the acquisition could harm competition in PC and console games through cloud gaming services.

💡📚 Articles

🤯 useEffect - The Hook React Never Should Have Rendered (7 min read)

React 18's useEffect hook is causing trouble and bugs in React code, but until it is removed, developers can optimize its use by adding all dependencies to the array and making sure code within the effect is idempotent. Cache, debounce, or throttle may also be used to optimize the effect. In some cases, it may even be better to remove the effect completely. React may need to rethink the hook and optimization of code to prevent further issues.

🏗 Simple MVVM Architecture in Flutter (5 min read)

Streamline Your Flutter Projects with MVVM Architecture: An Overview and Simple Implementation

💡 Supercharge your knowledge base with a natural language Q&A platform! (9 min read)

Supercharge your knowledge base with a natural language Q&A platform using Chat GPT (LLM) and LangChain. Learn how to leverage these tools responsibly to provide accurate responses from both public and private data sources, and see a sample implementation for a parking rates use case.

🔍 How to pick your database (1 min read)

How to Choose the Right Database for Your System Design: A Quick Guide

🐳 Foundations of Kubernetes: Pods, Nodes and Containers (2 min read)

Kubernetes Demystified: Understanding Pods, Nodes, and Containers for Cloud Deployment

💻 5 System Design fundamentals for technical product managers (8 min read)

Master 5 System Design fundamentals as a Technical Product Manager (TPM) to lead an engineering team and build scalable products. Learn about load balancing, key-value stores, rate limiters, content delivery networks (CDNs), and databases to make informed design decisions and architect agile, reliable, and robust systems that meet user requirements. Check out Educative's Grokking Modern System Design for Software Engineers & Managers course for more in-depth learning.

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