Meta laying off more than 11,000 thousand employees (2 minute read)
Meta is laying off 13% of its staff. The company's performance has spooked investors and caused share prices to sink. Meta's rising costs, as well as its heavy investment into the metaverse, have caused investors to become concerned. Meta anticipates that its losses will grow significantly year-over-year.
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Elon Musk outlines ambitious payments vision for Twitter (2 minute read)
Elon Musk outlined his ideas for bringing payments to Twitter during a conversation with advertisers on Twitter Spaces on Monday. The ideas include offering high-yield money market accounts, debit cards, and peer-to-peer transactions. Musk co-founded one of the first online banks, X.com, in 1999. Twitter registered with the US Treasury as a payments processor on Friday.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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IBM Unveils New Chip in Push to Realize Quantum Computing’s Promise (4 minute read)
IBM has created a new quantum computing chip with 433 qubits. The company plans to introduce a more than 4,000-qubit system in 2025. Quantum computers will eventually contain millions of qubits. IBM has partnered with Vodafone to investigate ways to use classical computing to defend against future quantum-enabled threats to encryption.
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Inside Alphabet X’s new effort to combat climate change with seagrass (14 minute read)
Tidal is a project from Alphabet's moonshot factory that aims to improve our understanding of underwater ecosystems to protect the oceans. The oceans could help pull a sizable share of the billions of tons of carbon dioxide that needs to be removed from the atmosphere. Tidal will initially focus on seagrass, a fast-growing plant that is particularly effective at absorbing carbon dioxide from shallow waters. It is developing tools to monitor coastlines and estimate the growth or loss of biomass to verify that restoration efforts are actually storing away more carbon.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022 (16 minute read)
This article covers everything that was announced this week at GitHub's Universe event. Announcements at the event include GitHub Co-Pilot for business, new features in GitHub Codespaces, private vulnerability reports, and much more.
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Idiot proof git (3 minute read)
This page contains a set of handy aliases for making git less hard. They allow developers to publish changes, sync branches, update local branches, squash commits, and more, without having to remember complicated strings of commands.
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Elon Musk's Twitter spaces w advertisers (3 minute read)
Elon Musk recently spoke with advertisers over Twitter Spaces. In the talk, he discusses verification, truth, eliminating deception, hate speech, brand safety, moderation, and much more. This Twitter thread follows Musk's presentation and documents everything that was discussed in the meeting. Musk wants Twitter to be a force that points civilization in a positive direction.
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