🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #66

Have a great Tuesday morning and an even better day ahead!

I think we can officially call every Monday a slow-news day. Week after week, we are noticing this pattern where there’s not much happening and our Tuesday’s newsletter edition always has the lowest amount of content. I guess people drag themselves to work after the weekend fun and not much productive!

#CopycatCrisis - Ola has been served a legal notice by the makers of MapMyIndia. They claim that the newly launched Ola Maps stole all the data from MapMyIndia and claimed it as their own.

#OnedriveNoThanks - Brace yourselves. After getting spammed by Windows to use the Microsoft Edge browser over Google Chrome, you will now be spammed to use OneDrive. Windows 11 is being super pushy about OneDrive again! They're showing full-screen pop-ups to "protect your PC"... I mean, if it's so great, why are they so clingy?

#AppleIntelligenceDelayed - You would think that after showcasing their “intelligence”, Apple will roll out their AI soon. Turns out that they have deferred plans to roll it. Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch this fall. Apple still plans to release a preview of these features this summer, but the Apple Intelligence features will actually be "later than anticipated"

#GitHubGoneWild - Security firm says GitHub users can access data from deleted repositories. But the bigger drama is Github refusing to acknowledge it as a security issue.

Uber Rolls Out Concurrent Rides in India
Uber is rolling out concurrent rides in India, a feature that allows users to book up to three trips for any of their contacts. The new feature is the latest example of Uber developing products that will capture more customers, including those who don't have the app or even a smartphone.

Rapido Becomes India's Latest Unicorn
Rapido is a bike-taxi startup that's now valued at over $1 billion, after raising $120 million in a new funding round led by WestBridge Capital. It's growing prominence in India's mobility sector is helping it challenge Uber and Ola, and also aid Swiggy's food delivery business.

X(Twitter)'s Financial Woes
X, the social media app owned by Elon Musk, is struggling to make a profit. Despite claims of surging popularity and "record high" usage, internal documents reveal a 25% decline in US revenue in the second quarter, with a 53% decline from the previous year. The company aims to boost revenue through advertising associated with the Olympics, football, and political campaigns, but even with a big push, it's unlikely to reach 50% of its 2023 income. X's profit margins are better due to reduced staff costs, but it's still in precarious

NASA Cancels Moon Rover Mission
Citing budget constraints and launch delays, NASA has cancelled it’s water-seeking moon rover. Extra testing and increased costs kept delaying the mission, threatening other projects, the space agency said.

React Native Filament | A real-time physically based 3D rendering engine for React Native

Zerox | Zero shot pdf OCR with gpt-4o-mini

Patchwork | Automate development grunt work like code reviews, patching and documentation with LLM workflows.

HTML Fundamentals: 5 Essential Attributes to Improve Accessibility
This blog post covers five essential attributes: HREFLANG, TRANSLATE, REVERSED, DIR, and SUMMARY. Each attribute improves accessibility and enhances the user experience. By learning these fundamentals, you'll be able to create more effective and user-friendly web pages.

Learn Different Layout Patterns
This blog from Google teaches popular web page layouts with code examples and demo. A great resource for front end developers.

UX Salaries Rise
The latest UX Salary Report 2024 reveals median salaries for UX Researchers, ReOps Specialists, and Designers globally, along with year-over-year trends, company size, and seniority analysis.