✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Alfred Hitchcock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'SAlfred Hitchcock said: “Some films are slices of life, but mine are slices of cake.” Who knew that anyone would take the knife to one of his beloved silent films, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), and turn it into a vertical mini-drama?Tattle TV has announced that it will stream serial killer drama The Lodger on its mobile-friendly vertical platform, telling Deadline that it is "one of the first known examples of a classic feature film being completely…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,privacy,WhatsApp 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Days after Meta was sued over allegedly false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users from cyberattacks. The feature, called Strict Account Settings, adds restrictions such as automatically blocking media and attachments from unknown senders, and silencing calls from unknown numbers. Under this setting, link previews are turned off, and the setting to block a large number of unknown messages is also turned on. When someone turns this option on, by default, two-step verification…
💥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Six-time major champion Iga Swiatek said players are being watched "like animals in a zoo" by cameras backstage at the Australian Open.Coco Gauff was caught smashing her racket in a corridor in the players' area at Melbourne Park on Tuesday, prompting the American to call for more privacy.The Australian Open has shown footage of the players' area in the bowels of Rod Laver Arena - which includes the gym, warm-up area and corridor leading to the locker room - since 2019.Access to the camera is…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sounds familiar? This is how I historically have been running benchmarks and other experiments requiring a repeated sequence of commands — type them manually once, then rely on shell history (and maybe some terminal splits) for reproduction. These past few years I’ve arrived at a much better workflow pattern — make.ts. I was forced to adapt it once I started working with multiprocess applications, where manually entering commands is borderline infeasible. In retrospect, I should have adapted the workflow years earlier. Use a consistent…
✨ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: World number two Nelly Korda has described the lack of a mixed-gender virtual indoor league as an “incredible failure” after launching a women’s competition with support from Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.The WTGL will be held in the same Florida venue as the men's TGL, which is currently in the middle of its second season.Some of the world's best female golfers will compete in a season of group matches at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, but Korda noted that not combining the men's…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: BTS,K-pop,Music,Pop and rock,Mexico,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: High demand to see the K-pop band BTS has led Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to formally request her counterpart, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, to help arrange more concerts in Mexico.“Everyone wants to go,” Sheinbaum said at her daily morning news conference on Monday, adding that she had sent a diplomatic message to Lee of South Korea requesting more concerts.“About a million young people want to buy tickets, but there are only 150,000 tickets available,” she said.The chart-topping boy band…
💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,ice storm,Outage,social media,TikTok 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TikTok says it is making progress in restoring its US infrastructure after an unfortunately temporary data center outage affected the region shortly after TikTok's US deal was struck. Last week, TikTok announced the creation of a separate US entity with US investors to avoid a nationwide ban. Around the time of the transition, users reported issues with TikTok searches, watching videos, posting, uploading comments, unexpected behavior with the For You algorithm, content, and more. The company on Monday attributed the glitches to a…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A journey from marine biology to GPU optimization I achieved 14.84x speedup (93.3% time reduction) on GPU parallel processing by applying a simple insight from octopus neuroscience: instead of waiting for the slowest worker, pre-distribute work so everyone finishes together. Results on real image processing workloads: Scenario Speedup Time Saved Web Images 3.41x 70.7% Thumbnails + 8K 3.99x 74.9% Medical Imaging 5.37x 81.4% Satellite Imagery 8.15x 87.7% Video Frames 14.84x 93.3% Code: [GitHub link] The Observation That Started It All I was reading about…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: However, that is easier said than done.There is a belief internally that there have been times on the road this season when Newcastle have been dragged into games the opposition wanted rather than imposing their own style on them as planned.As much as that has been influenced by the need to choose moments to press hard during a relentless schedule, they have, on average, had more possession and more than 10 open passing sequences per game this season.But Newcastle didn't always make the most of…
✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: For the better part of the calendar year, the Parisians could afford to play without a nominal centre-forward. Dembele was enough of a focal point to push defenders out of position, while pressing intensely and scoring the best goal of his career. This season, PSG's other strikers have been too inconsistent to make up for the Frenchman's absence.Dembele, who has only just returned to full fitness, came off the bench to help Bradley Barkola's late winner against Auxerre. Until then, Goncalo Ramos had struggled to…
