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Elon Musk thinks 'social media isn't rocket science', let's hope for the best for free speech, I suppose.
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Bored Ape Yacht Club creator’s metaverse mint rocks the Ethereum blockchain
Millions were spent in gas fees.
India’s New Super App Has a Privacy Problem
Tata Neu is the country’s latest do-everything app. When users signed up, their personal information was already there.
Why this ad made me stop scrolling
Decoding how an ad by a meditation app in instagram news feed stands out from the rest and what it does right.
India’s 100 Unicorn Startups – A New Milestone For India’s Startup Economy
With Open, a neobanking platform, joining the unicorn club, all previous predictions about unicorns in India were out of the window and the 100th unicorn has come well before expectation.
Understanding ONDC - the next UPI?
The commerce ministry is spearheading the initiative and ONDC (Open Network for Digital Commerce) is structured as a non-profit organization with about 150 crores in funding.
Twitter Circle is in testing for the tweets you’d rather keep to ‘select people’
Users in the test group can choose to lock down certain tweets as private instead of an entire account.
Peter Eisenman is the deconstructivist theorist
A look at Peter Eisenman, the US architect behind the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Meta has built a massive new language AI—and it’s giving it away for free
Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3.
Goodreads UX: indispensable, but unsatisfying
Despite being a cornerstone in the community, Goodreads has continually disappointed its ample user base with bad usability.
Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks
Modelling study is first to project how global warming will increase virus swapping between species.
Honorary mentions
Where forests disappeared last year, in one chart
100-year-old Brazilian breaks record after 84 years at same company
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