β¨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,Startups,Venture,Calendar Apps,Pat Grady,Sequoia Capital π **What Youβll Learn**: Qais Khimji has spent most of his career as a venture capitalist, including six years as a partner at prominent venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. But like many other former Sequoia partners β including David Velez, who founded Brazilian digital bank Nubank β Khimji (pictured left) always wanted to be a startup founder. He announced Thursday that he has revived an idea he started working on when he was a student at Harvard about 10 years ago, turning it into AI-based calendar…
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**What Youβll Learn**: For example, Wimbledon champion Iga Swiatek lost all six of her meetings with Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko.After losing to Ostapenko in Stuttgart last season, Swiatek suspected she had a mental disability, saying her head was "clearer" than in previous matches.But two-time major champion Coco Gauff, who lost her first seven matches to Swiatek, said overcoming the pole finally allowed her to "play freely" when they met.American Gauff is now on a four-match winning streak against Swiatek, although she still trails 11-5 overall.βThere is still a big…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Introduction If youβre tinkering around with embedded devices, having debug access is like having superpowers. Itβs worth much more than having a firmware binary in my opinion, as it gives you the ability to step through code, analyze it dynamically, and understand it better. It can also help point you to code regions to analyze during static analysis. Many recent MCUs and SoCs allow manufacturers to restrict debug access, so getting debug access is a common attack vector. But what if youβre not able to…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,US politics π **What Youβll Learn**: THis show arrives in London in an inevitable week in American politics. On the one hand, audiences may feel there's only so much Trumpian lunacy they can take, and it also means that newcomer Lee Douglas's satirical one-woman show - a sold-out show at last year's Edinburgh Festival - can't seem timely.The Irish-born, US-raised comedian plays Chastity Quirk, a sorority girl turned White House receptionist who works for President Ronald Drumpf, whose administration is largely sexist (and other "bigots" alongside…
π Explore this trending post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: The teams finishing ninth to 24th will compete in two-legged knockout ties in February, with two British teams possibly taking part.Forest lost 1-0 to Braga in Portugal, a result that practically confirms that coach Sean Dyche's team will qualify for the qualifiers.Mathematically, Forest, in 16th, can still finish eighth, but they would need to beat Hungarian side Ferencvaros at the City Ground and hope the eight teams immediately above them drop points.However, Forest will still be keen on victory next Thursday, as the teams in…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics π π **Category**: Denmark,Donald Trump news,greenland,NATO π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) β The leaders of Denmark and Greenland insisted Thursday that the island's sovereignty is non-negotiable after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had agreed with the NATO secretary-general on the framework of a future Arctic security agreement that Trump said would give the United States "full access" to the territory. Much about the potential deal remains unclear, although Trump said in an interview with Fox Business: βWe will have full access to Greenland,β a semi-autonomous region of…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: Government & Policy,Robotics,Startups,TC,anduril,autonomous aircraft,Palmer Luckey π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Defense technology company Anduril on Thursday announced plans to expand its presence in Southern California with a major campus in Long Beach, the coastal city where its founder Palmer Luckey grew up. The expanded campus will ultimately support approximately 5,500 jobs. Luckey told TechCrunch that these will be new jobs, not transfers from other operations. Anduril is headquartered nearby, in Costa Mesa, California, and also has a massive manufacturing facility in Ohio. The Long Beach campus will span 1.18 million square…
π Check out this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games. IntroductionSince many of us are working from home in these trying times, it seems safe to assume that more people than ever are indulging in playing the occasional computer game. A city builder is a specific kind of computer game in which you design a city, extract resources, set up production chains and ensure that your settlement grows. City builders are very similar to strategy games as they reward patience and strategy.…
π₯ Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: Dyche made seven changes to the squad that tied last Saturday with Premier League leaders Arsenal, which ended in a goalless draw. The last time he changed the team so radically was at Wrexham in the FA Cup.After crashing out of the competition that night, the Forest manager was highly critical of the players who came into the squad but was more forgiving on this occasion.He added: "There is an effort, but the latest developments... we want more of that."βWe are in a strange situation…
π Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Harry Styles,Music,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: We don't know much about Harry Styles' first album in four years beyond its title - and it's already causing some grammatical consternation.The sequel to the 2022 Grammy Award-winning Harry's House is more generically titled: Kiss All the Time. Disco, sometimes. In an age when fans clinically investigate every aspect of pop stars' lives, it was perhaps inevitable that Styles' choice of punctuation would draw scrutiny.The main dilemma: Is the comma in the right place? βWe're going through a really experimental…
