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🤔 Problems venture capital can’t solve

Techstars managing director Collin Wallace warns that even if a founder's vision is compelling enough to secure funding, they should consider if taking excessive levels of venture capital could lead to problems such as down rounds, expense reductions, layoffs, and retreat from strategic gambles that could have been avoided if they didn't take that level of funding.

💥 Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket blows up minutes after launch

SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, blew up within minutes of its launch in a test flight aimed at being the first step on a human journey to Mars.

🔒 Proton launches an end-to-end encrypted password manager

Proton has launched an end-to-end encrypted password manager, ProtonPass, which applies the same layer of security to stored usernames, notes, and web addresses.

🤷 LeBron James didn’t pay for his Twitter checkmark but Elon gave it to him anyway

Twitter has extended a complimentary subscription for Twitter Blue to LeBron James, who has previously said he wouldn't pay for verification, on behalf of Elon Musk, who has also offered to pay for "a few" other subscriptions, including those of Stephen King and William Shatner.

💬 Snapchat making AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT available to every user

Snapchat is making its GPT-powered AI chatbot, "MyAI," available to every user, allowing them to converse and collaborate creatively with the service, and is also introducing new tools for creators who want to use the platform to go viral, including paying successful creators a share of the revenue their viral content generates.

💻 Google consolidates AI research divisions into Google DeepMind

Google has formed Google DeepMind, a new AI research unit consisting of the DeepMind and Google Brain teams, which will collaborate across Google product areas to deliver AI research and products. The unit will be headed by Koray Kavukcuoglu, a former research scientist at Google Research and computer scientist and will include a scientific board. Meanwhile, Jeff Dean, co-founder of Google Brain, will take on the role of chief scientist for both Google Research and Google DeepMind, and Eli Collins will join Google DeepMind as VP of product. 

🌐 Can ActivityPub Save the Internet?

ActivityPub, a technology that allows for interoperability between social networks and could potentially decentralize social media, is gaining traction among tech companies like Tumblr, Flipboard, and Mozilla, but whether it will truly revolutionize social networking remains to be seen.

🤯 Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft

Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft over alleged illegal use of Twitter data by OpenAI, after Microsoft's advertising platform announced it would stop supporting Twitter due to changes requiring payment to access its API.

🔭 Astrophysicists Spot Einstein Rings That Boost Case for Axionic Dark Matter

Researchers studying lensed ‘Einstein rings’ of light have found that signatures in the rings indicate the kind of dark matter that inhabits the background galaxies, revealing the presence of wave-like dark matter, according to a study published in Nature Astronomy. This could make the axion, a hypothetical, small boson particle, a more likely candidate for dark matter, instead of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which has been theorised to only interact just enough with ordinary matter to make them invisible. However, more observations and modeling must be done to better understand the nature of the dark matter.

📺 Amazon introduces new feature to make dialogue in its TV shows intelligible

Amazon introduces a new feature called DialogueBoost on Prime Video to enhance dialogue and make it louder relative to other sounds in streaming videos.

💭 Is Critical Thinking the Most Important Skill for Software Engineers?

A software engineer reflects on the importance of critical thinking in the field, citing instances where jargon was used to exclude or mislead less experienced engineers, and warning against blindly following "thought leaders" without doing research and validation.

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15 Design Patterns Unveiled: The Ultimate Quick Reference Guide

🔀 System Design: Load Balancing (5 min read)

Load Balancing: Why it's essential for high-traffic websites, types of load balancers, and commonly used routing algorithms

🧑 How To Use MVVM in React Using Hooks and TypeScript (13 min read)

Learn how to design a scalable and maintainable React application using the MVVM architectural design pattern. This article includes an overview of MVVM, an application overview, and implementations for the View, ViewController, ViewModel, and Model components. The code is written in TypeScript and functional React components and includes custom hooks for the ViewModel and Model. The article also includes an extensive FAQ section.

💾 Distributes System : Database Tech Glimpse (3 min read)

Coming Soon: The Ultimate Guide to Cloud Native Databases - Learn about the 3 types of data used widely across the cloud native community: Relational, NoSQL and File Storage Systems. Discover the design and benefits of each database management system in detail. Stay tuned!

🏗 Build Resilient UIs: Frontend Architecture that doesn't suck! (9 min read)

Building Resilient Frontend Code: The Power of Architectural Decisions and Tooling

🏢 Multitenancy in action (10 min read)

Unlocking the Secrets of Multitenancy: Benefits, Approaches, and Real-World Examples

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