• OpenAI’s Sam Altman exits as CEO…for more updates https://twitter.com/karaswisher
• Bill Gates: AI is about to completely change how you use computers
• Engineering Blogs
• AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time
• The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size
• Microsoft unveils the ‘Windows app’ for accessing Windows PCs in the cloud from any device
• Amazon to sell cars online, starting with Hyundai
• Microsoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot
• Travel Planning With AI: I Tested It for a City I Know Inside and Out
• AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting methods for first time… Research Article Link
• Delivery Hero Global Hackathon 2023…The Price is Right’ Triumphs with AI-Powered Pricing Innovation
• Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
• Microsoft Refreshes its Well-Architected Framework
• Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention, by Neha Narkhede at QCon San Francisco
• Everything you need to know about AI in 2023: the 6 must-read blogs
• From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
• Germany on Friday approved a litany of changes to its rules for stock-based compensation at tech startups
• Noise-canceling headphones can filter specific sounds on command, thanks to deep learning

David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabsio python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth: pic.twitter.com/desTwTM7RS

— Charlie Holtz (@charliebholtz) November 15, 2023

• Humane’s Ai Pin is a $700 Smartphone Alternative You Wear All Day
• Everything announced at OpenAI’s first developer event
• “Call of Duty has generated more than $30 billion in revenue over the last two decades…The latest entry in Activision Blizzard’s popular Call of Duty video-game series was made in half the time of previous iterations, a fact that may be contributing to a spate of bad reviews about the game’s storyline, according to people familiar with the development process.”
• Unity shares slide as the company posts a revenue miss and skips guidance
• “…Two of tech’s largest players, Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., are testing a feature that lets shoppers buy Amazon products directly from ads on Instagram and Facebook…”
• Amazon is building an alternative OS for Fire TVs, other devices
• One year later: What Bob Iger’s return has done for Disney
• Qualcomm-Iridium Deal to Bring Satellite Connectivity to Phones Collapses
• Central Bank digital currencies
• Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT
• Microsoft plans to bring its AI Copilot to 1 billion Windows 10 users

Embrace the 'Schutlz Hour'!

Protect one hour each week for quiet reflection to think about the strategic aspects of your job.

As George Shultz stated, "the only way to do great work, in any field, is to find time to consider the larger questions."

🔗 https://t.co/Ka0G8LswC6 pic.twitter.com/YbRizAhMc9

— Kpaxs (@Kpaxs) November 2, 2023

GET, POST, PUT, DELETE… A list of common HTTP “verbs” in one diagram. The method to download the high-resolution PDF is available at the end.

1. HTTP GET
This retrieves a resource from the server. It is idempotent. Multiple identical requests return the same result.

2. HTTP… pic.twitter.com/aqBavjhFED

— Alex Xu (@alexxubyte) November 6, 2023

• What If Your EV Could Power Your Home During a Blackout?
• Apple reports fourth quarter results
• Obama reading list on AI
• Boox’s latest e-readers combine quiet, compact styles with big customization
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Bets AI Will Shake Up Scientific Research
• Rocket Lab targets late 2024 for private Venus mission launch
• ChatGPT: Timeline
• Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users
• Joe Rogan’s big decision
• Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma
• The False Dichotomy of Monolith vs. Microservices
• Apple CEO Tim Cook says AI is a fundamental technology, confirms investments in generative AI
• Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly
• DoorDash adds new safety tools for its delivery people, including ‘driving insights
• Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM’
• Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm
• NASA just patched Voyager 2’s software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite
• Disney to acquire remaining stake in Hulu for expected $8.6 billion
• LinkedIn hits 1 billion members
• Apache Pulsar – Cloud-Native, Distributed Messaging and Streaming

In 2008, Google Maps launched in India.

But we quickly ran into a problem:

Nobody used street names.

And street names were the foundation of Google Maps.

The team had to make some big adaptations.

15 years later, the changes have stood the test of time.

Here's how the team… pic.twitter.com/YfxzxzdyxB

— Elizabeth Laraki (@elizlaraki) October 31, 2023

Proxy Vs reverse proxy

A forward proxy is a server that sits between user devices and the internet. A forward proxy is commonly used for:
– Protect clients
– Avoid browsing restrictions
– Block access to certain content

A reverse proxy is a server that accepts a request from… pic.twitter.com/lG7NtXwrCZ

— Bytebytego (@bytebytego) October 29, 2023

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁-𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

Long Polling, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) are different techniques to implement real-time communication between a client (typically a web browser) and… pic.twitter.com/V7LNpI0lQw

— Dr. Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) November 5, 2023