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A tech newsletter by Gor Technologies

September 2024

Noteworthy News

Scientists Made a Transistor That Survives 100 Billion Switches—the Most Resilient Device Ever

It’s faster and tougher than anything before, but scaling up won’t be easy.

A Personalized Brain Pacemaker for Parkinson's

In a new frontier for deep brain stimulation, researchers used A.I. to develop individualized algorithms, which helped a skateboarder and other patients with Parkinson's disease.

Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering through Azure

Microsoft and Atom Computing aim to capitalize on a qubit-virtualization system that has broken a logical-qubit creation record.

Google Cloud introduces delayed destruction for Secret Manager

A new way to protect your secrets on Google Cloud, with new Pub/Sub notifications that alert admins of destruction attempts.

Apple’s India expansion to create over 600,000 jobs, says report

By the end of the current financial year, Apple is expected add approximately 200,000 direct jobs, with women constituting over 70 per cent of this workforce.

Trending In Tech

Grok-2 Beta Release

This release includes two members of the Grok family: Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini. Both models are now being released to Grok users on the 𝕏 platform.

Something has gone seriously wrong: dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Microsoft said its update wouldn't install on Linux devices. It did anyway.

JS Dates Are About to Be Fixed

A new ECMAscript proposal, the Temporal API is about to fix long overdue JavaScript Date issues. The new API introduces a standardized format for representing zoned dates and times.

Reliance AGM 2024: Company announces JioBrain, an AI service platform

Mukesh Ambani announces a new AI service platform that will offer generative AI models at affordable prices. He also announced plans to build gigawatt-scale AI-ready data centres powered by Reliance’s green energy.

Apple Intelligence comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting October 2024

Helpful Writing Tools, Mail and notifications summaries, a more natural and flexible Siri, the Clean Up tool in Photos, and many more features roll out in the U.S.

Expert Opinion

AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2024: Reality Check

Sidestep the hype, and look to the reality of tech professionals using LLMs for coding and other tasks.

The Perils of Future-Coding

A contentious yet thought-provoking article that compares pragmatic coder against future coder i.e., developers who write overly elaborate code to preemptively handle probable future use cases.

From Minimal to Meaningful

Lessons from 10 years of Material Design, straight from Google's VP Design and Material Design's UX Lead.

You Might Not Need a Design System

Many companies might not need a design system and should instead focus on building a good product, as a design system often introduces unnecessary complexity, especially in the early stages.

Do not trust the (design) process

Between 2014 and 2020, design became overly focused on The Process, emphasizing journeys, flows, and personas over the actual user experience. This shift led to neglecting the design and functionality of the final product.

How Stuff Works

The Definitive Guide to Building and Deploying Avalonia Applications for macOS

A deep drive into packaging your Avalonia apps for macOS.

How Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud.

How Meta animates AI-generated images at scale

Here’s how engineers at Meta were able to deploy Meta AI’s animate feature using a combination of latency optimizations, traffic management, and other novel techniques.

Working with Protobuf in 2024

Protocol Buffers (protobuf) are crucial for data serialization in applications like gRPC services. Here are some tools and tricks for developing with protobuf.

Meta's serverless platform processes trillions of function calls a day

XFaaS is Meta's internal platform for Hyperscale and Low Cost Serverless Functions. They claim its more efficient than AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.

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