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🍋 ByteDance-Owned Instagram Rival Lemon8 Hits the US App Store’s Top

ByteDance-owned app Lemon8, an Instagram rival, has jumped into the US App Store’s Top Charts, becoming the No.10 Overall app, across both apps and games and ranked No.9 on the App Store’s Top Apps chart, implying a “significant” and “recent” user acquisition push on the app publisher’s part, with some suspecting it may be a backup plan for TikTok's potential ban.

🎩 Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick

Generative AI tool, ChatGPT, has the ability to write functioning code on request, potentially marking a significant shift in the industry with the technology's ability to significantly expedite and lower the threshold for software production for anyone, not just programmers.

🤔 When innovation goes south: The tech that never quite worked out

Vaclav Smil's new book, Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure, explores the limitations of innovation and the promising inventions that failed to live up to their expectations, reminding readers that immense progress in one realm does not necessarily mean immense progress in all realms. Smil also criticizes techno-optimism and suggests that instead of focusing on radical new inventions, we should be making incremental improvements in areas such as agriculture, transportation, energy use and storage, drug discovery, and education in order to improve the quality of life of people.

🐝 ‘Bees are sentient’: inside the brains of nature’s hardest workers

Bees are in a class by themselves as pollinators, a role that requires a sophisticated mind, according to one expert; recent "fringe" research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams, and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions about the treatment of bees in laboratory settings and mass-produced crops.

🦾 Scientists say they're near augmenting human bodiesS with extra limbs

Scientists are exploring the possibility of augmenting human bodies with robotic parts, such as an extra arm, in order to offer an avenue of empowerment for those who need extra functionality or who have certain disabilities.

🎬 Looking back at Antitrust, the movie where Bill Gates murders coders (2018)

The 2001 thriller film "Antitrust" is being revisited and recollected by Adi Robertson, as it depicts a fictionalised tech firm named NURV, which is a monopolistic and powerful firm with its leader Gary Winston being likened to Satan, citing conspiracy theories about modern capitalism and the future of Big Tech.

💻 The new Microsoft Teams is here with big performance improvements and UI changes

Microsoft Teams has been completely overhauled for faster performance and a simplified interface, with the new preview available for businesses to try out, featuring a move from Electron to Edge WebView2 technology, a full move to the React JavaScript library, Fluent design language for UI improvements, and AI-powered video filters.

🌊 A remotely operated lab is taking shape 2.5 km under the sea

Europe's first remotely operated underwater laboratory, Laboratoire Sous-marin Provence Méditerranée, located 2.5km underwater and 40km off the coast of Toulon, is taking shape, enabling studies of oceanography, geology, and particle physics without human presence.

💡📚 Articles

🗺 Object Mapping advanced features & QoL with Kotlin (6 min read)

Discover the power of Object Mapping libraries with ShapeShift: auto mapping, advanced mapping with default transformers, inline transformers and conditions, deep mapping, annotation mapping, and more! Save time and reduce boiler-plate code while mapping between different objects or data structures.

💪 AWS Glue - ETL Power ! (3 min read)

Unlocking the Power of AWS Glue: A Comprehensive Guide to ETL Processes & Job Development.

🔍 Search System: Design that scales (6 min read)

This blog post covers how to scale and implement an efficient search system, discussing topics such as crawlers, indexers, searchers, and elasticsearch. It also talks about the need for proxies, queuing mechanisms, and backfill services to handle surges of data.

🤖 🤖 AI-based code generation will make collaborative concept work much more important. Here is why. (4 min read)

Collaboration and Documentation: The Key to Success in AI-Based Code Generation

🚌 Poor man’s event bus with zero lines of code (8 min read)

Decouple Code with Poor Man's Event Bus (with Zero Lines of Code) - and React Version

🎓 Learning from Real Projects: AWS Beyond the Certifications (1/10) (9 min read)

"Creating an AWS Account: Avoiding Common Mistakes and Best Practices" - A blog series on building well-architected enterprise-scale applications from day zero. The first post covers the importance of planning and best practices when creating an AWS account, including choosing the right country, securing credentials, setting up a development account, and utilizing AWS organizations for multiple accounts.

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