Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far. Turns out, last week's intro line needs a correction considering how BYJU'S surpassed Paytm to be India's most valuable startup in the past week. The world moves fast, I suppose.
We've got some great reads for you so let's jump right in.
Note: For any articles behind the paywall, open them on an incognito/private window and you should be good to go.
How do you get users to view what you want them to? 🎯
It is a critical aspect of product design since good discoverability is responsible for a user’s task completion in a frictionless manner. It also helps them find new content and features that a product has to offer.
The company is launching a new product called Stripe Identity — a self-serve tool that companies can use to verify user identities.
The FBI's Anom Stunt Rattles the Encryption Debate 🕵️♀️
The agency spent years running a secure phone network for criminals. So much for “going dark.”
Apple’s emoji keyboard is reinforcing Western stereotypes ⌨️
The feature associates “Africa” with the hut emoji and “China” with the dog emoji.
SLS: First view of Nasa's assembled 'megarocket' 🚀
NASA has assembled the first of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rockets, which will carry humans to the Moon this decade.
ʻOumuamua' or the ‘first distant messenger’ 💬
An alien-made artefact or just interstellar debris? What ʻOumuamua says about how science works when data is scarce.
AI system outperforms humans in designing floorplans for microchips 🤖
A machine-learning system has been trained to place memory blocks in microchip designs. The system beats human experts at the task, and offers the promise of better, more-rapidly produced chip designs than are currently possible.
The biggest rebrands of the decade have this visionary designer in common 🍟
How Lisa Smith turned the world off of minimalism and changed the design landscape.
How To Make Designs That Suck: Bad Advice for Designers 👎
While everybody else tries their hardest to become better UI and UX designers, why not be smarter and go in reverse? Nobody will expect that kind of genius, that’s for sure.
Andreessen Horowitz launches content site called Future 👩💻
The site is expected to provide what a firm spokesperson calls an "optimistic" view of technology, in contrast to what it believes is excessively negative coverage in the traditional tech media.
Does Tech Need a New Narrative? 📘
The site is expected to provide what a firm spokesperson calls an "optimistic" view of technology, in contrast to what it believes is excessively negative coverage in the traditional tech media.
Honorary mentions
Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips 🤐
Shopify expands its one-click checkout, Shop Pay, to any merchant on Facebook or Google 🛍️
Apna raises $70 million to help workers in India secure jobs 🇮🇳
And that's the lot! Thanks for checking out what we had to share with you this week, we shall catch up with you next Wednesday.
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