🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #212

Wednesday's here - let's move one step closer to the weekend!

Weird - no gossip in the past day.

Rapido To Launch 'Pink Rapido' Women-only Bike Taxi Service In Karnataka
Rapido is a popular Indian bike taxi service founded in 2015, now expanding to support women in the mobility sector by introducing a women-only bike taxi service called 'Pink Rapido' in Karnataka, aiming to create 25,000 jobs for women this year.

Cognizant Sues Infosys For Misappropriating Trade Secrets; Indian IT Giant Countersues
Cognizant, a US-based IT giant, is suing Infosys, an Indian IT giant, for allegedly stealing its trade secrets. Infosys is countersuing, claiming Cognizant used anti-competitive tactics to slow down its growth.

ePlane Partners With ICATT To Supply 788 Air Ambulances
ePlane is an Indian eVTOL (electric vehicle and take off and landing vehicle) maker, and ICATT (International Critical-Care Air Transfer Team) is an Indian air ambulance provider. They just partnered to supply 788 air ambulances in a $1 billion deal, aiming to create India's largest air ambulance network and improve rural and urban healthcare infrastructure by reducing response times for patient transport.

xAI - Introduced Grok 3 AI model with enhanced language and reasoning capabilities, including a DeepSearch agent for web-based research and a "Think" and "Big Brain" feature for solving complex problems.

PayTM - Added "Ask AI" feature, powered by Perplexity AI, allowing users to ask queries and receive responses with citations.

Tab-Boo - A browser extension that adds random jumpscares to websites users want to avoid, leveraging aversive conditioning to help break addictive browsing habits.

How To Professionally Say - A guide that helps users rephrase blunt or informal statements into more professional and polished language for workplace communication. It provides alternative ways to express frustration, disagreement, or directness in a tactful and diplomatic manner.

Shiv’s Page - On initial glance, this looks like somebody’s portfolio website, but they have something interesting - they allow their website visitors to write anything on their portfolio page! Look closely - those are random scribbles by visitors just like you!

AI Emojis - An AI-powered emoji generator that allows users to create and explore unique, custom emojis. The platform has generated millions of AI emojis and offers features such as WhatsApp stickers, a Discord bot, and Slack integration. It also provides an AI playground for experimenting with emoji creation.

The Future Of Design: LLMs And Interactive Designs
Learn about the limitations and capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in design, and how they can be used to create interactive and dynamic designs that go beyond traditional static designs, and discover why designing in code can be more powerful.

The Power Of Storytelling In Product Development
A good product story appeals to people's rational and emotional sides, simplifies complex concepts, and focuses on the problem being solved. Steve Jobs' iPhone launch in 2007 is a masterclass in storytelling, using the "virus of doubt" to prime the audience for the solution. A product's story drives everything, from design to features, and is essential for defining and understanding the product and its customers.

Netflix's Personalization Engine: How Impressions Fuel Binge-watching
Netflix's system processes billions of impressions daily to offer bespoke content recommendations, requiring a state-of-the-art system to track and process data while maintaining a detailed history of each profile's exposure, enabling enhanced personalization, frequency capping, and analytical insights.