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Fun Fact 🤯
The original name for Google was actually "Backrub". When Larry Page and Sergey Brin first started developing their search engine in 1996, they called it "Backrub" because their algorithm analyzed backlinks to rank web pages. However, they eventually changed the name to "Google", a play on the word "googol" which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect the massive amount of information they aimed to organize and make accessible to users. And the rest, as they say, is history!
Tech News 📰
Elon Musk’s BBC Interview
Elon Musk discussed selling Twitter during a BBC interview at its San Francisco HQ, where he described running the platform as challenging and unpredictable.
Blue Sky, a clone of the Blue Bird aka Twitter?
BlueSky, a Twitter alternative backed by Jack Dorsey, promises decentralized social networking with moderation tools and portable accounts, and is gaining testers through Apple store.
The first flight test of a fully integrated Starship
SpaceX's Starship is a reusable spacecraft designed to carry people and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The spacecraft is all set for its first flight test at Monday, April 17 at 8:00 a.m CT. The event has now been postponed for atleast 48 hours because of the problem which is caused by a frozen "pressurant valve".
Apple all set to open Apple Stores in India
Apple is set to open its first retail store in India in Mumbai tomorrow, followed by another store in Delhi on April 20th. The Mumbai store is particularly noteworthy for its impressive design, featuring a unique triangular tiled ceiling made out of timber.
Angry Birds: Sega agrees to buy video game maker Rovio
Japanese gaming giant Sega Sammy Holdings is set to buy Finnish mobile game maker Rovio Entertainment for €706m, citing the need to tap into Rovio's expertise in mobile gaming and its position in the rapidly growing global gaming market, particularly mobile gaming.
Reads and Resources 📚
Good resources to learn Computer Science and Programming
Recently, I wrote a blog sharing some good resources which helped me in my learning. Hope it brings value.
Meet the hacker armies on Ukraine's cyber front line
The BBC's cyber correspondent Joe Tidy met with hackers in Ukraine fighting a cyber war with Russia, blurring the lines between military and unofficial activists. On both sides, the distinction between state-sanctioned cyber-attacks and vigilante hacking has become blurred, leading to concerns about potential far-reaching consequences
These 6 AI Tools Will 10x Your Productivity
Discover five AI-based productivity tools for enhancing efficiency, including ChatGPT, Grammarly, Cohere, Otter.ai, and mem.ai that can exponentially boost your productivityand optimizing your daily workflows for maximum efficiency.
GitHub repositories to check out 📈
DeepSpeed: DeepSpeed empowers ChatGPT-like model training with a single click, offering 15x speedup over SOTA RLHF systems with unprecedented cost reduction at all scales;
Taxonomy: An open source application built using the new router, server components and everything new in Next.js 13.
Chroma: The fastest way to build Python or JavaScript LLM apps with memory!
Get Hooked: Podcast of the Week!
Welcome to "Get Hooked," where we share our top pick for the podcast of the week.
A brief introduction of the podcast:
If you're a high school or college student with big dreams of starting your own company, this video is for you. Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel, two startup founders who started in the early 20s and are now top investors, sit down to share the hard-won advice they wish they had known back in high school.
Whether you're already running your own startup or just have an idea you can't stop thinking about, Caldwell and Seibel will discuss the skills you need to learn now and how to set yourself up for success after graduating school. Their stories will give you a glimpse of what's truly possible at the intersection of ambition and opportunity in in today's world. This is a masterclass in entrepreneurship for the next generation.
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder
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