🪅 Heap Heap Hurray Ed. #70

Wishing you a peaceful start to your week. Happy Monday!

#OneStopShop - Did you hear Zomato is launching a new app just for going out? It's like, a one-stop-shop for everything from dining to movie tickets to sports! Yeah, yeah, I know, it's not just about food delivery anymore, wannabe a lifestyle brand and all that jazz. And, btw, their financials are looking hella good - net profit jumped 125 times and revenue went up by 74%! Making hay when the sun shines?

#ProfitParty - Latest scoop on Delhivery! They went from a massive loss to a profit of 54.35 crores in just one quarter! It's like, who knew logistics could be so lucrative? Their B2B transport segment grew by a third and their supply chain services are hooked on e-commerce players. Guess what? Their CEO is all smiles, saying they're stable and profitable! Maybe it's time for us to start…

#AdFree - Skype is finally ad-free! I know, I know, it's about time. And can we talk about how Microsoft is still trying to shove Bing and Edge down our throats? But hey, at least the AI image creator is getting an update...

#GeminiFail - Google did an Ad for Gemini. They tried to make AI seem cool by having a dad get Gemini to help his daughter write a fan letter to her fave Olympian. But, honey, it backfired! People are grossed out and say it's a terrible message - like, what's wrong with letting your kid use their own words?

India's Central Bank Proposes Dynamic Authentication for Digital Payments
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is suggesting that banks and online payment services use alternative authentication methods, such as biometrics, one-time pins, or tokens, to secure digital transactions. The goal is to make authentication more dynamic and harder to fake. Some transactions, like low-value card payments and offline digital transactions, will be exempt from this requirement. Bye bye OTPs?

Telangana Becomes The First State In India To Build Its Own AI Model
The Telangana government is developing an AI model for Telugu. The team collected data from oral sources such as folk tales, songs, local histories, and information about food and cuisine. Training the model on a cluster of NVIDIA’s A100 GPUs took nearly a week. Over 10,000 students participated in translating, correcting, and digitising 40,000-45,000 Telugu folk tales.

This Indian MEITy Backend Startup Successfully Developed AI Chipsets
Indian startup Netrasemi has developed three chips so far to run AI models on the embedded edge. The first chip – Netra A4000 – represents a line of high-performance chips designed with advanced Chiplet (D2D integration) technology. The startup plans to take NetraA2000 & NetraR1000 chips, which will tapeout soon, to customers this year. A good step for India towards being self sufficient with processor chips.

Google to Phase Out Popular Ad Blocker uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin is a well-known ad blocker used by millions of people, especially those who want to block intrusive ads while browsing the web. It's a popular Chrome extension, but recently, Google announced plans to depreciate it due to changes in browser extension rules called Manifest V3. This might change the way ad blockers work in the future.

GitHub Unveils GitHub Models to Empower 100M+ Developers to Build AI-Native Applications
GitHub Models is a free, open-source tool for building AI applications. It lets developers test, compare, test, and deploy AI applications right from their GitHub source code. The tool is available in a limited public beta.

Emoji Picker Element | A lightweight emoji picker for the modern web

Intl Tel Input | A JavaScript plugin for entering and validating international telephone numbers

Debugging Tips in Browsers That You Did Not Know About Before
This webpage will teach you how to squeeze more functionality out of browser debuggers. These advanced debugging techniques will help you master the art of troubleshooting and optimizing your code for faster and more efficient execution, making them more valuable professionals in the field of computer science.

Managers Must Address Under Performance Early and Accurately
Kind managers address underperformance early and accurately, recognizing that underperformance is when a person or team is not bearing their share of the organization's load. They identify the two main causes: Refusal to Align and Failure to Execute.

Summary Of All The Updates In Web Development In July
Learn the latest CSS properties to land in web browsers in the month of July.

Prioritise Code Readability Over Lines Of Code
A guide from a Google Employee on how you can improve code readability. They give an example of improving complex Boolean expressions by extracting conditions into well-named variables, grouping details into intermediate Booleans, and hiding logic in separate methods to reduce complexity and aid understanding.