TLDR 2019-01-10

Apple cuts iPhone orders 📱, DARPA's master AI 🤖, Bezo's divorce 😞

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Big Tech & Startups

Apple is reportedly cutting iPhone production by 10% between January and March (2 minute read)

For the second time in two months, Apple has cut iPhone production, this time dropping iPhone production by 10% from January to March of 2019. They will now be producing 40-43 million units instead of 47-48 million units as previously planned. Both Apple and Samsung have been hit hard by a slowdown in China's economy, causing both to drop earnings forecasts.

Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete Facebook (3 minute read)

Users are complaining about Samsung's deal with Facebook to have an undeletable Facebook app pre-installed on new Galaxy phones. Facebook claims the disabled version of the app doesn't collect or send data to Facebook. While other apps like Amazon and Youtube also come pre-installed, users are particularly concerned about Facebook, with one user saying "If I can't delete it, this will be the last Samsung product I ever own."
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Science & Futuristic Technology

Swarm of mysterious radio bursts seen coming from deep space (3 minute read)

Astronomers have detected 13 high-speed bursts of radio waves coming from deep space. These types of radio bursts were first detected in 2007, and all have come from outside the Milky Way. One of the new bursts is repeating, the second repeating burst ever to be detected. These were discovered by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, which was only running at partial capacity at the time. Researchers hope they will detect more now that CHIME is fully operational.

DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos (3 minute read)

A butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane halfway around the world. This is a famous characterization of how small events can have huge unpredictable effects in complex systems. Until now. DARPA's new AI the Knowledge-directed Artificial Intelligence Reasoning Over Schemas or KAIROS is meant to sift through all of the news and media in the world to identify threads and narratives within them. Schemas are sequences of loosely related events (for example, walking into a store, selecting an item, bringing it to a cashier, and paying for it would be a schema for buying something). KAIROS wants to create schemas to recognize major global events like cold wars or major recessions.
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Programming, Design & Data Science

DocumentDB (Announcement)

AWS has released a new hosted database called DocumentDB, it's an auto-scaling MongoDB compatible database. Basically, MongoDB is licensed so that Amazon is not allowed to offer its own hosted MongoDB, so Amazon has written its own MongoDB clone.

Git Explorer (Web Tool)

This is a nifty tool that lets you select a few options like "compare two commits" and "output results to a file" and it will show you the correct git command to do so.
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Miscellaneous

Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Announce Divorce on Twitter (3 minute read)

After 25 years of marriage, Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos are getting divorced. They've been separated for a long time, but will continue to be "parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects." They met before Amazon was started, when they both worked at the hedge fund DE Shaw.
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