Amazon Prime Day drives U.S=
.. online sales to record $14.2 billion (2 minute read)
Online spending during this year's 48-h=
our Amazon Prime Day event was up 11% year-over-year, with customers spendi=
ng $14.2 billion. The strong showing was driven by back-to-school shopping =
and an apparent product refresh cycle. Consumer behaviors during the sale i=
ndicate a shift to more conscious shopping and a preference for saving over=
splurging.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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WHAM! Nuclear fusion experi=
ment hits new record for magnet strength (4 minute read)
A new fusion experiment has set a recor=
d for the strongest steady magnetic field confining a plasma. Strong magnet=
s are essential for certain types of fusion power - for every doubling of t=
he strength of a magnetic field, the power output of one reactor design inc=
reases 16-fold. The team was able to produce a 17 tesla magnetic field, mor=
e than twice as powerful as the high-resolution MRI scanners used to image =
human brains. They are now working on more advanced magnet designs.
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A scientist took a psychede=
lic drug =E2=80=94 and watched his own brain 'fall apart' (5 minute read)
A study on psilocybin suggests that psy=
chedelic drugs work by disrupting certain brain networks, especially one th=
at helps people form a sense of space, time, and self. The study, which inv=
olved scanning participants' brains with an MRI while under the influence o=
f the drug, showed that the drug caused populations of neurons usually in s=
ynchrony to fall out of synchrony. The brain appears to respond to this by =
entering a state of enhanced plasticity that can last for weeks. The study =
hints at how psychedelic drugs could be used to treat people with addiction=
, depression, or post-traumatic stress.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Gotchas with SQLite in Prod=
uction (8 minute read)
SQLite provides lower operational compl=
exity. It is the best choice for getting applications running on a single m=
achine. However, SQLite becomes less appealing if a project requires multip=
le machines, has a write-heavy workload, or has long-running transactions. =
In these cases, developers are better off using a more traditional database=
like MySQL or Postgres.
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Python grapples with Apple =
App Store rejections (7 minute read)
Apple's macOS App Store is automaticall=
y rejecting apps that contain the string 'itms-services' - the URL scheme f=
or apps to ask Apple's iTunes Store to install another app. The string exis=
ts in the urllib parser in Python's standard library. The discovery of this=
issue led to a discussion among Python developers about whether 'acceptabl=
e to app stores' should be a design goal for CPython. The developers decide=
d to implement a `--with-app-store-compliance` configuration option to remo=
ve the problematic code.
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Meta Reportedly Unhappy Wit=
h How Much Money Its VR Division Burns (3 minute read)
Meta has told its AR/VR teams to cut sp=
ending by around 20%. The division has lost $55 billion since 2019. The com=
pany is still aiming to release a new Meta Quest 4 headset, a Quest Pro seq=
uel, and new AR glasses in the next three years. Meta has been shifting its=
focus over to AI. It is gearing up to release its Llama 400B AI model by t=
he end of the month.
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Apple TV+ will soon get a l=
ot more movies made by studios other than Apple (2 minute read)
Apple is in talks with major studios to=
bring more movies to Apple TV+, expanding and extending the service's appe=
al. The company's previous experiments with licensing movies and making the=
m available for limited runs seem to have gone well. While Apple has found =
some success in terms of series, it has struggled to make as much of an imp=
act with its movies. Apple TV+ accounted for $23.9 billion, more than half =
the revenue generated by iPhone hardware sales, in the second quarter of th=
is year.
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