Apple Planning Major 'Apple Watch X' Redesign to Introduce New Band System and More (2 minute read)
Apple is reportedly planning a complete revamp of the Apple Watch for the device's tenth anniversary. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that the 'Apple Watch X', which will be released either in 2024 or 2025, will have a thinner casing and different ways for bands to attach to the device. The Apple Watch Series 9 will likely only be a minor refresh. Apple is considering switching the Apple Watch away from annual updates to offer more substantial upgrades on a less frequent cycle. |
Science & Futuristic Technology
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New force of nature discovered by scientists at Fermilab (4 minute read)
Scientists at Fermilab have found evidence of muons not behaving as expected by the current physics theory. There is still some uncertainty over the results. It could be a sign of a new force of nature. Muons are fundamental particles similar to electrons but about 200 times as massive. The standard model of physics is unable to account for many phenomena observed in the universe. |
Programming, Design & Data Science
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Metatype (GitHub Repo)
Metatype is a declarative API development platform. It uses Typegraphs, programmable virtual graphs describing all of the components in a stack, to enable API, storage, and business logic composition in a type-safe manner. Metatype supports plugins and reusable components. It is still in beta, but most of the core engine is close to production readiness. |
The Source of Readability (14 minute read)
Code that is read together should be written together. There is a lot of actionable advice that can be derived from this rule, for example, maintain high cohesion and low coupling, write less code, keep modules deep, and avoid repetition. This article takes a look at the rule and how it results in more readable code. |
There is no hard takeoff (5 minute read)
The information revolution will do for intelligence what the industrial revolution did for energy. Most work used to be done by muscles, now it is not - soon, most thinking won't be done with brains. The change won't happen overnight, but it has already begun. More intelligence will lead to new tricks, but the tricks will get harder and harder to find. |
My $0->$100m->$0 in 5 years story (3 minute read)
This Reddit post tells the story of someone who quit their executive job at a FAANG and started a SaaS as a first time founder. It talks about how they scaled, raised money from VCs, and how the advice of VCs caused the business to collapse. The story aims to show another side of the VC startup scene to provide a different perspective in a field that often shows too much survivor bias. |
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers (19 minute read)
In this interview, Elliott Peterson, one of the FBI agents who led the investigations around the DDOS attacks that knocked out some of the biggest websites in 2016, discusses his work going after the people behind DDoS services and identifying which services to take down. |
Carrot Problems (3 minute read)
Anytime someone achieves success in a way they don't want to admit publicly, they have to come up with an excuse, which can mean misleading others into potentially wasting their time or worse. |
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