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🧊 Motherhood on ice: lack of suitable men drives women to freeze their eggs

A new study by Yale professor Marcia C Inhorn has found that the biggest driving factor for women freezing their eggs was a shortage of suitable educated men rather than career or educational ambitions, with the trend often forced on successful high-earning women who have been looking for a partner but couldn’t find a reproductive partner due to the growing gap between men and women going into higher education.

🌡 Century-old Sydney weather record broken

Sydney has broken a century-old temperature record, with temperatures exceeding 20C for 184 consecutive days from 18 October 2016 to 19 April 2017, marking a new all-time high exceeding a 180-day period in 1913-14.

🤐 Google’s smart speakers are finally smart enough to shut up

Google's Nest smart speakers and displays will now chime instead of having a conversation when asked to control smart devices in the same room, in an effort to stop Google Assistant from chattering away unnecessarily.

🐭 Stanford researchers have engineered an organism to fight cancer (in mice)

Stanford researchers have developed a way to fight skin cancer in mice by engineering a friendly bacteria called Staphylococcus epidermidis to carry a tumor antigen, which triggered a potent immune reaction to wipe out cancer tumors in mice.

💰 We all contribute to AI – should we get paid for that?

Some experts propose the concept of "data dignity" in the age of AI, which means paying people for their contributions to AI systems and avoiding the current model of exchanging free services for data, but implementing this concept may face challenges due to difficulties in assigning appropriate amounts of credit and lack of access to data.

🚨 Emergency alert test UK: phone alarms sound at 3pm

UK mobile network Three is investigating why many of its users failed to receive an emergency alert from the government, the first nationwide test for the UK’s new national warnings system. The system is designed to warn the public if there is a danger to life nearby. However, while the piercing, 10-second tone arrived for millions of people, and up to a minute early for some, Three users reported en masse that they did not receive it.

🐠 See a Newly Discovered 'Pristine' Deep-Sea Coral Reef in the Galápagos

Scientists have discovered a thriving, pristine coral reef complex hundreds of meters below sea surface in an unexplored part of the deep ocean surrounding the Galápagos Islands, despite the current state of coral across the world's marine ecosystems.

🎯 Physicist Sameera Moussa went from a role model to a target

Sameera Moussa, an Egyptian physicist who tried to use atomic energy for good and made efforts to involve the public in that choice, was assassinated at the age of 35 in a case that remains unsolved today.

💡📚 Articles

💻 What are the Best Practices for Writing Clean and Maintainable Code? (4 min read)

"10 Essential Tips for Writing Clean and Maintainable Code" - Learn the best practices and strategies for writing simple, organized, and efficient code that can save time and effort in software development. From following coding standards to testing and refactoring, discover the key practices that can make your code more readable and easier to maintain.

💾 Schemaless to the rescue (3 min read)

Going Schemaless with MongoDB: Benefits and Best Practices for Flexible Data Storage

🚫 Why I hate “Pagination” — on UI and API design. (6 min read)

Burn Pagination: The Ugly Side of UI and API Design. Why pagination is a bad UX for users and a burden on servers. Discover better alternatives such as infinite scrolling and filtering. Learn about integration options like gRPC async stream, HTTP streaming, Server-sent events, and WebSocket. Don't let pagination trap you, evaluate critically for optimal UX and resource consumption.

🏛 7 Architecture Design Patterns — You wish you knew before interview (7 min read)

Discover the 7 deadly sins of architecture design patterns to impress in your next interview! From the Circuit Breaker and Strangler Fig patterns to the CQRS and Rate Limiting patterns, learn how to design scalable, available, secure, and resilient applications. Don't miss out on these modern solutions for modern problems!

🔗 .NET 6 - Web API Correlation Id 🔗 (3 min read)

Learn how to implement Correlation Id in your .NET Web API and utilize them efficiently with step-by-step instructions and code samples. Watch the full video on YouTube or find the full source code on GitHub! #APIs #CorrelationId #dotnet #WebAPI

🏗 Solutions Architect Tips - How to Design Applications For Growth (7 min read)

Designing for Growth: Guidelines for Future-Proofing Your Applications. Learn how to create a loosely coupled architecture with event-driven workflows and API-heavy design to anticipate future changes and new features.

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