Max Q: Welcome to the era of MaaS (microgravity-as-a-service)
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Atmos Space Cargo’s research and manufacturing space capsule Another anomaly hits Launcher’s Orbiter space tug News from NASA, and more Atmos Space Cargo is building return capsules for in-space research and manufacturing The International Space Station has a monopoly on
Read moreDecentralized social networking app Damus to be removed from App Store, will appeal decision
Damus, a decentralized social networking app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, will be removed from the App Store due to Apple’s strict payment rules. Apple had threatened to remove Damus earlier this month over the app’s tips feature, claiming that it could be used by content creators to sell
Read moreSignalFire’s State of Talent report 2023
Heather Doshay Contributor Share on Twitter Heather Doshay is partner, People + Talent, at early-stage venture firm SignalFire, where she leads recruiting programs for the portfolio and advises founders on applying the firm's Beacon AI for hiring. She's spent 15+ years as a people and talent executive at Webflow, RainforestQA
Read moreUnicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from bots,” The Information first reported. So, after raising more than $200 million in venture capital, IRL
Read moreTelegram is adding Stories next month
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced today that the messaging app is adding Stories in early July. Durov says users have been asking for the feature for years, noting that more than half of all feature requests that Telegram receives are related to Stories. The company was initially against adding Stories
Read moreCoinbase execs: As global crypto policy grows, US has urgent need for legislation
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges globally, has been around for 10 years. And while the company has grown its offerings, products and services, its policy talking points haven’t changed dramatically, Kara Calvert, head of U.S. policy at Coinbase told TechCrunch+. But what has changed, she said, is the
Read moreEnums: Rust Objects of Unusual Size
How enum-specific compiler optimizations keep our programs performantContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreFigma’s Magic Power for Developers
Our take from Config 2023, Figma’s annual design conferenceContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreNeRF at CVPR23: Rendering Performance
Since the release of NeRF at ECCV 2020, there’s been more and more NeRF papers published each year. Let’s have a look at two papers about rendering performancePhoto by Marko Blažević on UnsplashIn this article, I’ll detail two NeRF articles dealing with Rendering Performance that caught my attention during the CVPR
Read moreData Formats for Row-Oriented Processing
Photo by Christopher Gower on UnsplashThe combination of pandas and parquet is the backbone of many data pipelines. However, it can, at times, be a badly performing solution. I would like to show one such case here.IntroductionPandas and parquet are both primarily column-oriented/analytical tools. They shine the most when your pipeline is,
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