🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #182

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#DigitalIndia - Before the grand Panchayat to Parliament 2.0 event, Hon'ble Lok Sabha Speaker, Shri Om Birla, conducted a live Speech-to-Speech of Sansad-Bhashini translation system. Bhashini powered translation system was able to offer Hindi-to-six regional languages translation in almost real-time with minimal latency.

#AIprofit - OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro service is struggling to make money, CEO Sam Altman says. Altman: "People use it much more than we expected" He says he "personally chose the price and thought we would make some money"

#WeWork - Startup founder Alok Jain criticized Gurugram's WeWork on platform X for the unapproachable attitude of its sales executives. Netizens bashed the company reading post.

Microsoft To Invest $3 Billion In India
Microsoft, now focusing on AI and cloud services, particularly Azure, just announced plans to invest $3 billion in India over 2 years to boost its AI infrastructure and Azure cloud services, aiming to train 10 million people in AI by 2030 and expand its datacenter facilities in the country.

Nvidia's GeForce Now Expands To India
Nvidia has a platform called GeForce Now that lets you play high-end games on any device with an internet connection. They just announced that it's coming to India and a few other countries this year! They're even setting up a special data center in India with powerful RTX 4080 GPUs for a smooth gaming experience.

Toyota's Woven City Nears Completion
Toyota, a Japanese automaker and one of the largest producers of automobiles in the world, is building a futuristic city called Woven City on the site of a former car factory in Japan. The $10 billion project is almost ready for its first residents, with the first 100 moving in in fall 2025. Woven City will be a "living laboratory" where people can live and test out futuristic projects.

Getty Images And Shutterstock To Merge In $3.7 Billion Deal
Getty Images: leading provider of visual media, with a library of stock photos and videos. Shutterstock: popular platform for stock photos, videos, and music. Today, they announced a merger of equals, creating a premier visual content company with a stronger financial profile, expanded content offerings, and increased capacity for innovation. The combined company will have an enterprise value of $3.7 billion and be named Getty Images Holdings, Inc. The deal is expected to bring annual cost synergies of $150-200 million by year three.

Dell Abandons Iconic Brands In Favor Of Unified Portfolio
At CES 2025, Dell announced that they're dropping some of their well-known laptop brands like XPS, Inspiron, and Latitude, and replacing them with simpler names like Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. They're doing this to make things less confusing for customers.

Elon Musk Flags Algorithm Update On X
Musk asked users to post more positive and beautiful content, hinting at an upcoming algorithm update prioritizing such posts over others. This could significantly change the user experience on the platform.

Meta Axes Fact Checkers, Shifts To User-generated Community Notes
Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has announced a major change in its content moderation policies, replacing fact-checkers with user-generated "community notes", similar to Elon Musk's X, citing bias and censorship concerns, despite acknowledging it may lead to more harmful content on the platform.

New Xbox Console "Xbox Prime" Rumored To Launch In 2026
A new leak suggests that Microsoft's next console will be called Xbox Prime. The next-gen console will apparently be released in 2026, with the final name unclear for now. Hope further claims that the next Call of Duty might be a day-one release for the console.

HDMI 2.2 - Your HDMI cable now gets an upgrade. Yes, the hardware. It will now supports bandwidths of up to 96Gbps, enabling higher refresh rates and resolutions for 4K and 8K displays.

Meta Quest Pro - Discontinued and no longer available for purchase, with customers instead directed to consider the Meta Quest 3.

CES 2024: Day 1 - A summary of the all the announcements that took place on Day 1 at the Consume Electronics Show event in Las Vegas.

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Stimulation Clicker - Ok. This one will have no introduction. Nothing. Nada. Let’s see if you can figure out how to use it. It will feel like a game but you will come out of it with a weird but warm experience.

Motion Examples - Motion is a powerful animation library for the web. The creator has this other unpopular but equally powerful website with examples on what you can do with the library.

21st.Dev - Front end developers may be familiar with ShadCN. Well, this is a collection of UI components using Reactjs and Tailwind - just like ShadCN but a much bigger collection.

Push Shapes - They are promising a powerful way to build websites, but that’s not why we share them (ahem - they are yet to launch). Instead, subscribe to their newsletter to get some awesome Figma components for free!

What Does A Developer Work On After They Turn 40?
This HN post goes into a insightful discussion about the career options of a developer after they turn 40 years old.

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
An experiment tests the limits of code generation and refinement, mirroring a trend seen in image generation with DALL-E 3 and ChatGPT.

Meet This Indian Developer Who Built a JupyterLab-Killer
Zasper, an open-source tool, gains popularity among data scientists and JupyterLab creators for its significant performance improvements, using Go programming language and multi-core processing, solving JupyterLab's slow performance and resource issues. The creator - an Indian developer from Hyderabad.