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Memory-Safe Code and Open Open AI

It's tiring news, but newsworthy nonetheless - here's the entire twitter saga in short, in case you have been squished under a rock.

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Insurance Sector Funding Report 2021-2022 in India

Digiqt Technolabs publishes their findings from a rather thorough and useful research piece on the Insurance industry in India from the past year.

5 Ways to Use Behavioral Science to Create Better Products

Behavioral design combines design, technology and psychology (behavioral science) and applies it to the design process.

Google Ads: the flaws of a giant

Google's ads platform is flawed, inconsistent and a demonstration that operating at a large scale can create inefficiencies.

Evolution of AR and VR: UX inspiration from history

If AR is extending, adding, or changing reality, we can find a lot of examples that eventually will lead us to AR invention.

“Please give me a chance”

WeChat users are handwriting apologies to get their banned accounts back. The Tencent app is so essential to life in China that banned users will go to great lengths to be reinstated.

The ‘Viral memory safe' Language

Rust is what’s known as a “memory-safe” language because it’s designed to make it impossible for a program to pull unintended data from a computer’s memory accidentally.

DALL-E Can Now Be Used by Other Apps as OpenAI Releases API

To get a sense of how physicists might solve the “naturalness problem,” I contacted one who calls himself “a deviant by default.”

India’s new telecomms bill is messed up

The new draft bill is a missed opportunity to reform archaic surveillance laws, and seems like an attempt towards greater internet control.

Tim Berners-Lee is building the web’s ‘third layer.’

The man who gave us the World Wide Web talks about Solid, his ambitious plan to give us all a private place to store—and selectively share—our online data.

The Enduring Mystery of the Dragonfly 44 Galaxy

A growing catalog of huge but dim galaxies such as Dragonfly 44 is forcing astronomers to invent new theories of galactic evolution.

Reviving the Earth one design at a time

Reflecting on his journey towards creative independence, Matthew Miller tells us about the influence of Studio Ghibli films and how he’s unwilling to compromise on what he stands for.

Honorary mentions

Top 10 Automotive Designs of October 2022 🚗

‘The worst kind of pain you can imagine’ 🌵

Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3 🎶

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