Stack Overflow, iPads, TikTok, Protests, and Mom
Stack Overflow, iPads, TikTok, Protests, and Mom
Weekly Roundup of News in Technology, UX and AI
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🕹️ Tech Innovations
🖥️ Stack Overflow
📱 iPad
🤖 TikTok
🧑🎓 Protests
👩👧👧 Mom
Podcast
Navigating Tech Innovations and Strategic Partnerships with Varag Gharibjanian
In this episode, I sit down with Varag Gharibjanian, the founding partner of Actuate, a boutique advisory firm. Varag shares his personal journey from an engineering background to pioneering in business strategy and technology partnerships, especially within AR/VR spaces. We delve into his early career challenges, significant milestones at major tech companies, and the lessons learned from merging technology with business. Varag also discusses the current trends in XR and AI technologies, providing insights into future developments. If you're interested in business strategy, the future of technology, or growing a business, you won't want to miss this discussion.
News and Useful Reads
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal
OpenAI is going to take answers from Stack Overflow and incorporate them into ChatGPT. And developers aren’t happy about it. They’re even threatening to change their posts or delete them entirely in protest.
STACK Overflow and OpenAI announced a new API partnership that will integrate Stack Overflow's technical content with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant. The deal has sparked controversy among Stack Overflow's user community, with many expressing anger and protest over the use of their contributed content to support and train AI models.
The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
Aside from a cringy video about crushing creativity, Apple had quite a few positives in its latest iPad event. More powerful chips, better screens, cheaper iPads, more expensive iPads, haptic feedback, and more.
TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment
TikTok filed suit to block itself from being banned in the U.S. The idea that the government can single out one application goes against the first amendment, according to the lawsuit (and commonsense).
“For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech platform to a permanent, nationwide ban,” TikTok wrote in the lawsuit, “and bars every American from participating in a unique online community with more than 1 billion people worldwide.”
What the Media Get Wrong About Campus Protests
Check out this interesting podcast that explores the narrative around campus protests. I’ve heard many times the idea that protests aren’t organic and are violent, when that couldn’t be further from the truth. And the media coverage perpetuates those myths by the way the coverage is shaped.
In reports about pro-Palestinian college encampments, comparisons to the anti-war demonstrations of 1968 abound. On this week's On the Media, hear how historical analogies distract us from what makes today's protests unique. Plus, a reporter debunks a theory that Bill Gates is somehow funding campus activism.
Stopping senseless violence and halting genocide is one of the most worthwhile things to be protesting for.
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Other Interesting Finds
Why Are You So Smart? Thank Mom and Your Difficult Birth
Happy Mother’s Day to everyone! Remember, humans are unique for many reasons. As this article says, we’re fortunate that we’ve evolved to be able to both walk on two legs and to be much smarter than many of our primate relatives.
So there were two evolutionary pressures in opposite directions. An uneasy balance was struck, where women can walk and run yet can also give birth to babies with relatively big heads. If women’s pelvises were any bigger, they would not be able to walk and run well.1 A cost of this balance was safety. Childbirth is more dangerous for humans than for any other primate,2 probably for this reason.