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01GENERAL

Sponsored

🤯 WILL ODOO TRANSFORM THE ERP MARKET...AGAIN?!

Odoo Experience, starting on October 8, promises to reveal Odoo 17, thought to disrupt the industry landscape once again. Anticipate innovative features, including a new website builder and a game-changing point of sale system adapted for restaurants.

odoo.comSponsor

02BIG TECH & STARTUPS

ELON MUSK WANTS TWITTER / X TO REPLACE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. HERE'S HOW IT'LL WORK.

Elon Musk wants to turn X into a financial hub that will fully replace the needs for banks within a year. Musk had plans to create an online bank called X with PayPal back in July 2000, but his plans never came to fruition. X aims to allow money to flow as freely as information or conversation on the platform. The company has already secured first money transmitter licenses in several states. It aims to make the service run globally.

mashable.com2 min read

GOOGLE COMMITS TO INVEST $2 BILLION IN OPENAI COMPETITOR ANTHROPIC

Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic. The deal involves a $500 million upfront investment with an additional $1.5 billion to be invested over time. Google already had a stake in Anthropic after investing $300 million in the company back in April. Anthropic was valued earlier this year at $4.1 billion.

cnbc.com2 min read

03SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

JEFF BEZOS SHOWS OFF NEW MOON LANDER DESIGN FOR NASA

Jeff Bezos recently showed off low-fidelity mock-ups of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander to NASA officials. The Blue Moon lander is designed to deliver up to 3 metric tons of cargo anywhere on the lunar surface. Blue Origin will be responsible for transporting astronauts between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon and back to space on the Artemis V mission scheduled for 2029. Pictures of the lander are available in the article.

arstechnica.com4 min read

WHERE THE HECK DID ALL THOSE STRUCTURES INSIDE COMPLEX CELLS COME FROM?

Eukaryotic cells have membrane-bound nuclei and a system of internal membranes called the endoplasmic reticulum. There are several competing theories about how these structures developed. Scientists have only recently been able to start investigating the origin of these structures using new technologies. This article provides an overview of the theories around the structures and a roadmap of how scientists plan to uncover their beginnings.

arstechnica.com9 min read

04PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWENTY YEARS OF SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

This article lists 11 things Site Reliability Engineers at Google have learned from 20 years of working in the field. Google is now over 1,000 times as large as it was 20 years ago, with a network 10,000 times larger. The company now spends far less effort per server than it used to while enjoying much better reliability. Its tools have evolved throughout the years into a unified platform that offers reliability by default.

sre.google6 min read

SCRATCHDB

ScratchDB is an alternative to BigQuery, Redshift, and Snowflake that runs on Clickhouse. It lets users input arbitrary JSON and perform analytical queries against it. ScratchDB automatically creates tables and columns when new data is added.

github.comGitHub repository

05MISCELLANEOUS

GOOGLE LOSES FIGHT TO HIDE 2021 MONEY PIT: $26B IN DEFAULT CONTRACTS

Google's senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified during the company's monopoly trial, saying that Google's default agreements with mobile phone manufacturers and web browsers were the company's biggest cost in 2021. Google paid $26.3 billion for default agreements while raking in $146.4 billion in revenue from search advertising in 2021. The company says that these deals are legal and that its dominance is not due to them.

arstechnica.com4 min read

PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING WITH CHATGPT FOR HOURS, BRINGING 2013’S HER CLOSER TO REALITY

People are now having hours-long discussions with ChatGPT on the go. The latest ChatGPT update allows the AI to see, hear, and speak. It enables people to use the assistant in many more situations for things like creative development, brainstorming, or simple conversation. Being able to interact with the assistant through voice has made more people feel a deeper emotional connection with it, with many people drawing similarities between ChatGPT and Samantha from the 2013 movie 'Her'.

arstechnica.com4 min read