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A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed

The Pragmatic Engineer

A year ago, I spent months doing an investigative report on how UK events tech company Pollen had its staff work for free, as it had run out of money but still kept operating. I decided that while I greatly respect investigative reportage, it’s not an area I would venture into, again. These people do not exist.

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Improving Meta’s global maps

Engineering at Meta

Across Meta, our family of applications (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, among others) are using our basemap to connect people through functions like status updates, location sharing, and location-based searching. We can quickly serve compressed raster maps that work on a variety of devices, old and new, across mobile and web.

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Better video for mobile RTC with AV1 and HD

Engineering at Meta

At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The big assumption here is that the bandwidth estimator is working correctly and estimating true bitrates. We’ve seen significant benefits by adopting the AV1 codec for RTC.

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

The Pragmatic Engineer

The issue is that banks (not only SVB) aren’t designed to work like this: they cannot fulfil simultaneous requests for withdrawals by all (or even most) customers. In case you somehow missed it: we went through the fastest bank run in history, in an event that impacted about half of all VC-funded startups in the US and UK.

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Top Artificial Intelligence Companies to Look Out for in 2022-23

U-Next

Globally, companies are taking advantage of the diverse applications of Artificial Intelligence, not just for optimizing processes but also for automating work processes. . Artificial Intelligence ( AI technology ) is the latest buzzword in the world of technology. AI has been used in various industries for years now. Tata Elxsi.

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Building end-to-end security for Messenger

Engineering at Meta

This is, perhaps, the primary goal of E2EE, and is where much E2EE research and design work is targeted, such as the Signal protocol we use in our products (such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram Direct), or the IETF’s Messaging Layer Security protocol , which we helped to design and was recently standardized.

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Top 40 Android Project Ideas & Topics of 2023 [Source Code]

Knowledge Hut

Some well-known examples include Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Netflix, and Uber. Why Do You Need to Work on Android Projects? Android projects are becoming increasingly popular, and it is important to be able to work on them if you want to keep up with the Web Development latest technology trends.

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