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Last Week in Plain English
Experimental 3D, WhatsApp Enters Crypto, as TikTok Enters eCommerce
By In Plain English • Issue #6 • View online
Hello, and welcome to the latest installment of Last Week in Plain English. It’s that time of the year when things are starting to get a bit chilly. And few things bring as much warmth and comfort on a cold winter day as a hot cup of coffee. So make yourself one, and while you sip on that freshly brewed cup of cocoa, check out some of our top stories from last week: “What would happen if Amazon Cloud suffered a major outage?”, “4 JavaScript Libraries You Can Use In Your Next Project”, and “AWS launches a new low-code app development tool”
All this and more on this week’s edition of Last Week in Plain English.

AWS launches Amplify Studio, a new low-code app development tool
AWS launches Amplify Studio, a new low-code app development tool
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced Amplify Studio, a new Figma-connected no-code/low-code service that is meant to help developers quickly build cloud-connected apps.
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JavaScript is a programming language that can be used to power JavaScript libraries. JavaScript libraries are pieces of JavaScript code that provide specific functionality to other applications allowing developers to focus on their project’s core features instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again.
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Worldwide mobile data traffic saw extreme growth over the past decade. Traffic has increased almost 300-fold since 2011.
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Here’s how Google’s experimental 3D telepresence booth works
Here’s how Google’s experimental 3D telepresence booth works
Google has detailed the tech behind its impressive Project Starline demo from this year’s I/O conference. It uses an 8K screen, four GPUs, four microphones, and more.
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Currently, you are using Web2 technology. Web2 is nothing but the internet which is used by almost everyone. It is the internet where websites provide you services in exchange for your personal data.
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The Amazon Web Services outage affected everything from home deliveries to dating to vacuum cleaners.
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NASA Launches New X-Ray Telescope Aboard SpaceX Rocket to Study Milky Way’s Most Energetic Objects
NASA Launches New X-Ray Telescope Aboard SpaceX Rocket to Study Milky Way’s Most Energetic Objects
NASA launched the IXPE telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Thursday.
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Here we will see 12 Python Tricks to make your Programming life easier. Save your valuable time and optimize code as a developer.
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WhatsApp has launched a new pilot that lets people in the US send and receive money from within a chat.
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The social media app TikTok is producing its first live shopping and entertainment event in the UK.
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Microsoft is trying to convince Office software pirates into buying genuine versions. A 50 percent discount is designed to tempt pirates to go genuine.
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This boss fired 900 employees over Zoom
This boss fired 900 employees over Zoom
“Last time I did this I cried,” said the head of the online mortgage lender laying off 15% of his staff.
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