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Biggest Lie in IT, Big Tech vs. Innovation, and Digital Brain Replication

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Biggest Lie in IT, Big Tech vs. Innovation, and Digital Brain Replication
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Everything is not well in the startup economy. Once upon a time, technology was the key to innovation, but what if Big Tech is now stifling it? Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence continues to advance, with a Google-backed firm teaching a reinforcement learning algorithm how to control nuclear fusion. Wages are rising but so is inflation—what does it mean?
Also learn: What role is TikTok playing in geopolitics? What are ‘smishing’ attacks? And what is the biggest lie in the IT industry?
And last but not least, to make good on our usual mission of making programming easier and more accessible, we are also looking into which programming language you should start out with to build your career in 2022, 10 fantastic features of Angular 13, and some killer Python scripts.

What’s the Biggest Lie in the IT Industry?
What’s the Biggest Lie in the IT Industry?
The IT industry is filled with great people and opportunities, but it’s also filled with gatekeeping, inferiority complex, and terrible “influencers”.
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The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.
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Memoization is a way to cache the results of calculations (or the functions themselves) to optimize performance. For example, you might want to only re-render a list element if the results of that list have changed, or only change a value if another value has changed.
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The Quest to Make a Digital Replica of Your Brain
The Quest to Make a Digital Replica of Your Brain
Digital twins are already used in manufacturing, industry, and aerospace. Now a European project called Neurotwin wants to make virtual copies of brains.
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Blockchain is more than Bitcoin, it is a distributed database that allows for secure, transparent, and tamper-proof transactions. Blockchain technology has been around since 2008 when Satoshi Nakamoto first proposed it and released Bitcoin, which was then considered its first real application of this new protocol.
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This article aims to help aspiring developers pick the correct programming language that would help them later to advance in their software developer careers.
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How 'empathy' convinced Crisis Text Line to hand over its data
How 'empathy' convinced Crisis Text Line to hand over its data
The suicide hotline allowed its then-CEO to found a for-profit company called Loris AI that would utilize its text message data. Here’s how the company’s business shifted.
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In everyday programming, we need some ready-made codes that can help us solve our daily life problems.
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How the new APILayer hub is bringing together businesses and developers.
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How TikTok is Playing a Crucial Role in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
How TikTok is Playing a Crucial Role in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
As troops amass on Ukraine’s border, civilians capture it all on camera. Online sleuths are now unpacking the details.
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In November 2021, the team at Google come up with another update of Angular i.e. v13. Angular 13 brings some exciting features for the Dev Community.
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Proprietary technologies inside big firms are slowing innovation and the growth of startups.
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What Are 'Smishing Attacks'? (And How to Avoid Them)
What Are 'Smishing Attacks'? (And How to Avoid Them)
Hackers are using SMS-based scams to infect users with malware, steal sensitive information, and break into accounts.
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Inflation is eating into wage increases. Employers will have to offer more than money.
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How Things Turned Sour When Grocery Apps Decided to Win Over Amsterdam
How Things Turned Sour When Grocery Apps Decided to Win Over Amsterdam
The “dark stores” that popped up in Dutch cities have triggered turf wars with residents and citywide crackdowns.
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