📰 News

🌱 You can anaesthetise all plants

Botanist Stefano Mancuso discusses his findings on plant intelligence and communication, claiming that plants are able to emit messages through volatile chemicals in the atmosphere and cooperate with each other to ensure the survival of species. He argues that filling cities with trees is crucial to combat CO2 emissions and that it's ethical to eat plants as it's part of the natural cycle. Mancuso's latest book, Tree Stories: How Trees Plant Our World and Connect Our Lives, is set to be published on April 20.

💁 Ultra-long YouTube highlight videos are ruining sports – and I’m fine with that

The rise of ultra-long YouTube highlight videos is changing the way people consume sports, as fans no longer feel the need to watch entire games when they can get a condensed version of all the most important parts in just a few minutes.

🌊 Utah’s Great Salt Lake was disappearing. Extreme weather is bringing it back

Utah's Great Salt Lake has experienced a rise in water levels due to unprecedented weather patterns, following a previous record low in fall 2020, caused by years of drought. Scientists had previously reported that the lake could dry up in less than five years due to the worsening climate crisis and excessive water use. However, a historic winter snowfall and rapidly warming temperatures have resulted in a rise in the lake's water levels, causing runoffs that are difficult to control. Nevertheless, experts caution that multiple wet winters would be necessary to reverse the drought trend.

📺 Apple TV rolls out multiview feature in beta to sports fans

Apple is launching a beta version of its multiview feature for Apple TV 4K during its MLB Friday Night Baseball live stream, allowing users to watch up to four games at once in a grid format and customize the view.

💥 Twitter is on the attack against Substack

Twitter is taking steps against Substack, including blocking Twitter embeds in Substack stories and limiting engagement with Substack's Twitter account, after Substack announced a new Twitter-like Notes feature, potentially burying the impact of the API changes Twitter has made, which may force popular Twitter bots to pay exorbitant prices or cease operations entirely. Additionally, Twitter is rebranding its Super Follows feature to Subscriptions, and it has recently disabled likes, replies, and retweets for tweets with Substack links, prompting popular Substack writers to say they will leave Twitter and use Substack Notes instead.

🌊 California’s ‘Big Melt’ has begun and could bring perilous flooding with it

The record levels of snowpack in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range are beginning to melt due to warmer weather, which could result in dangerous flooding, as communities brace themselves for an influx of water that could fill downstream reservoirs multiple times over.

🐦 Is the bird freed? A look back at six months of Musk’s Twitter reign

As we approach six months of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, key areas of the social media platform's business have performed erratically, including debt and company value, financial performance, user base, staff, and advertisers, with Musk's decision-making style being described as erratic and inscrutable in motivation.

🐦 ‘Angry Birds’ company is about to be sold for $1B to Sega

Sega is reportedly close to a deal to acquire Rovio Entertainment, the company behind Angry Birds, for $1 billion, despite the decline in popularity of the game franchise.

🎮 Spotify'sshutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like game it bought last year

Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it acquired last year as it aims to focus on its other objectives around music discovery.

💡📚 Articles

🧩 EA Principles Addendum: Is Composability a good idea? (4 min read)

"Composability: Is it Overcomplicating Your Architecture?" - A Discussion on Applying Composability in an Application and Enterprise Architecture Context.

🏗 Building a Real-Time Notification Service with Golang —A Golang Beginners Guide (20 min read)

Building a Real-Time Notification Service with Golang - A Beginner's Guide

🚀 Delivering 100% of Webhooks (2 min read)

Ensuring Reliable Webhook Delivery: How Woovi Enhances Trust and Customer Experience

🤖 GPT-4 won’t steal your Software Developer Job: Adapting to Changes (4 min read)

Thriving Amidst AI Evolution: How Software Developers Can Adapt to GPT-4 and Beyond

🔍 8 Tips to Optimize Internal Search in Ecommerce Websites (6 min read)

Boost Your Ecommerce Sales with Optimized Internal Search Engines - Learn Tips & Stats

🏗 Step-by-Step Guide: Highly Available Architecture with ALB and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate (6 min read)

Unleashing the Power of AWS Fargate: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing and Verifying an Architecture for Container-Based Applications

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