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U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing I=
t of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (12 minute read)
Apple is being sued by the US for emplo=
ying a strategy that relies on exclusionary anticompetitive conduct that hu=
rts both consumers and developers. The 88-page lawsuit says that the compan=
y violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep custome=
rs reliant on their iPhones and make them less likely to switch to competin=
g devices. It seeks to put an end to those practices and possibly a breakup=
of the company. The lawsuit is likely to drag out for years before any typ=
e of resolution.
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Here=E2=80=99s how Microsof=
t is providing a =E2=80=98good outcome=E2=80=99 for Inflection AI VCs, as R=
eid Hoffman promised (4 minute read)
Unnamed sources say that Microsoft is p=
aying approximately $650 million in its deal with Inflection AI. $620 milli=
on was paid for non-exclusive licensing fees for Inflection's technology an=
d $30 million was paid to get Inflection to agree not to sue over Microsoft=
's poaching. Inflection will pivot away from building a personalized AI cha=
tbot to becoming an AI studio that helps other companies work with large la=
nguage model AI. Microsoft has several reasons for needing a backup for Ope=
nAI - for one, its deal with OpenAI is being scrutinized by the FTC.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Pig kidney transplanted int=
o living person for first time (6 minute read)
Doctors have performed a pig-to-human k=
idney transplant for the first time at Massachusetts General Hospital, the =
first hospital to perform a kidney transplant. The genetically modified kid=
ney was implanted into a 62-year-old patient who had been diagnosed with en=
d-stage kidney disease. They are recovering well and are expected to be dis=
charged from the hospital soon. It is unknown how long the kidney will last=
for. This was the third transplant of a pig organ into a living human. The=
first two patients, who received heart transplants, died weeks after recei=
ving their organs.
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The Baffling Intelligence o=
f a Single Cell/ (51 minute read)
E. coli cells forage for nutrients usin=
g a process called chemotaxis. While the bacteria don't have brains, they p=
ossess something similar to a sense of smell, drive, and even memory. Chemo=
taxis involves 'smelling' chemicals and then deciding where to swim. The sy=
stem is able to adapt to different environments with varying levels of attr=
actant concentration. This article introduces the clever system that powers=
chemotaxis and explains how the complex signaling network works.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Dropflow (GitHub Repo)
Dropflow is a CSS layout engine with a =
high-quality text layout implementation capable of displaying many language=
s. It can generate PDFs or images and render rich wrapped text to a canvas =
in the browser. Dropflow supports bidirectional and RTL text, font fallback=
s at the grapheme level, colored diacritics, optimized shaping, and much mo=
re.
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Tortoise (GitHub Repo)
Tortoise is an automated solution desig=
ned to meet all Kubernetes resource optimization needs. It shifts optimizat=
ion responsibility from service owners to platform teams, requiring service=
owners to configure only a minimal amount of parameters to initiate autosc=
aling. Tortoise allows for comprehensive tuning by platform teams. It curre=
ntly only supports deployment - support for all resources supporting scale =
subresources is in development.
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The Reddits (6 minute read)=
Reddit was one of the reasons Y Combina=
tor was started. This post tells the story of how the site came to be. Desp=
ite being rejected in the first round for their food delivery app idea, Red=
dit's founders were offered funding after agreeing to work on a project tha=
t would eventually become Reddit. The project was launched on a quick sched=
ule. It had a core set of real users after just a few weeks. Reddit is now =
a fundamentally useful tool that seems almost unkillable.
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Choosing startup life (12 m=
inute read)
This article discusses things to consid=
er when thinking about joining a startup. A job may provide higher salaries=
, more perks, security, less stress, and other benefits, but working in a s=
tartup can result in huge payoffs. Startups require a ton of challenging wo=
rk to be successful, they have minimal infrastructure in place, and startup=
employees have lower salaries. However, startup employees own a portion of=
the company, and this could be worth a lot in the future.
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U.S. versus Apple: A first =
reaction (7 minute read)
The US Department of Justice, 16 states=
, and the District of Columbia are suing Apple for violating the Sherman An=
titrust Act, which specifically regulates monopolies, making some things th=
at are legal for regular companies to do illegal when monopolies do them.
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