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On July 5, 2023, Meta launched Threads, the newest product in our family of apps, to an unprecedented success that saw it garner over 100 million sign ups in its first five days. A small, nimble team of engineers built Threads over the course of only five months of technical work. While the app’s production …

I built a game called Chomp, which sparked my interest back in college when I learned about it in a game theory context. It’s a 2-player game, where you take turns biting chunks of chocolate off of a chocolate bar, avoiding a special ‘poison’ square. Whoever chomps the poison square, loses. I’m learning React / …

At Embedded World 2023, Ferrous Systems had a joint booth with AdaCore, to talk about our new joint-venture: Ferrocene. Ferrocene is a qualified toolchain for building safety-critical systems in Rust. Florian noted that our booth was next to the Blackberry/QNX booth, and that “we should do a demo using QNX Neutrino”, the POSIX-compatible real-time operating …

Hey HN, I’m trying to find this old website (created at least 4 years ago), can you help? This guy created a site where you could nominate your friends to become friends (maybe romantic partner, I don’t remember) with the creator. It began with a bio of himself and the nomination form without much else. …

What do robotic lightning bugs have to do with cars and mobility? With flying cars and personal jetpacks positioned to be the next big thing in mobility, technology will need to discover more compact, lighter, and cheaper ways to move forward. These tiny flying robot fireflies, created at MIT, could be the root of a …

Digital adoption has become a key factor for small and medium businesses to not just thrive, but also to survive. Digitisation has enabled many micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to reach out to more customers, enhance their productivity, and increase operational efficiencies.  This week, SMBStory covered the journeys of Ahmedabad-based Prompt Dairy and Coimbatore-based Walkaroo. …

Las vacunas para prevenir la propagación del COVID-19 que están en uso ahora son las más rápidas en haber sido desarrolladas en la historia reciente, causando que algunas personas tengan dudas acerca de vacunarse. Pero la tecnología de las vacunas ARN mensajero que se usa en las vacunas de Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna ha existido por …

Ethan Miller/Getty Early Zappos investor and former CEO Tony Hsieh died on Friday. Hsieh raised the bar for customer service while running the online shoe seller, empowering his employees to send flowers and cards to customers, speak with them for hours, help them to order pizzas, and even hand-deliver especially valuable packages. The Zappos chief …

Now that Apple’s ARM-powered PCs have arrived, developers are retooling their software to run natively on the M1 CPU instead of relying on Rosetta 2 emulation. For many of us, Google Chrome is the program we use the most, and according to tweets from the team, you should be able to get an optimized version …

In February 1993, five years after taking over from his father at South Korea’s Samsung Group, 51-year-old Lee Kun-hee was frustrated that he wasn’t making his mark. He summoned a group of Samsung Electronics executives to a Best Buy store in Los Angeles for a reality check on the Samsung brand. Covered in dust, a …