🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #206

Tuesday - the day to power up and make things happen!

#AppleWatchOnAnkle - Ana Espinal, 23, has more than 80,000 followers as a self-described fitness influencer on TikTok. She has a genius hack for her Apple Watch - she wears it on her ankle! She's not alone, apparently, as a small but growing group of people are doing the same to solve everyday problems like inaccurate step tracking or skin irritation.

#LogoChange - YouTube has made a subtle change to its logo. The colour of the playback bar has been changed from red to pink. The change was made in October, but people are only just noticing it.

#MetaLayoffs - Leaked memo reveals that Meta is set to lay off about 3000 of its employees. This move is in line with Meta’s announcement that it was preparing to reduce its workforce by 5%.

#MikeTyson - A gamer created history by defeating Mike Tyson (in a game) under two minutes - the game launched way back in 1987 and never has anybody defeated them within two minutes!

India Launches First Drone Centres Of Excellence In Odisha
The initiative aims to equip tribal youth and women with drone technology skills. The centres, located in the Gram Panchayats of Sagada and Bhatangpadar, are part of a larger effort to promote skill development.

Flipkart Plans Aggressive Expansion Of Dark Stores Ahead Of Big Billion Days Sale
Flipkart, India's leading e-commerce company, is expanding its dark stores to 550 nationwide, aiming to transform delivery & logistics, especially for its "Flipkart Minutes" rapid commerce service, to compete with Blinkit & Swiggy Instamart, ahead of its Big Billion Days sale in 2025.

Tinder Turns To AI In Effort To Revive Declining User Base
Tinder, a popular dating app owned by Match Group, is a platform that allows users to swipe through profiles and match with potential partners. With a decline in active users, Tinder is introducing AI-powered features for discovery and matching to offer a fresh alternative to its signature swipe gesture and improve the quality of matches.

Playstation Network Outage: Sony To Compensate Users With Extra Service
The PlayStation Network experienced a global outage that lasted for nearly a day. Sony says it will compensate PlayStation Plus subscribers by giving them an extra five days of service. The outage seems to have lasted from Friday evening until Saturday evening.

Discord - Introduced "Ignore" feature to allow users to mute interactions with others without alerting them, hiding messages, direct messages, server notifications, and other activities.

Microsoft Copilot - Expanded AI bug bounty program with increased payouts for moderate severity vulnerabilities, including new incentives of up to $5,000 and additional consumer products in scope.

Brave Browser - Introduced custom scriptlets to allow advanced users to inject their own JavaScript into websites for deep customization and control.

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Effective Communication In Tech Industry
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AI’s Missing User Interface
Inflection's AI chatbot, Pi, failed to catch on due to poor design and lack of intuitive interface, while DeepSeek's success is partly due to its transparent "chain of thought" approach, a potential game-changer in AI development.

Sudoku Solvers: A Tale Of Two Approaches
In 2006, Ron Jeffries' attempt to build a Sudoku solver stalled due to over-engineering, while Peter Norvig's minimalist approach using a Map[Coord, Set[Int]] datatype and constraint propagation succeeded.