It is estimated that around 1.7 million people are playing Netflix's mobile games daily. The company has yet to release a true blockbuster game, but its efforts are on an upward trajectory. Netflix's plans may include building its own cloud gaming infrastructure. It has acquired several game studios to help it expand and better understand the space.
Google is preparing for a search engine update that will improve the quality and authenticity of results. It plans to crack down on SEO-first content by deprioritizing unoriginal content and reporting. The update will provide more useful search results for users and could increase traffic for sites providing original and helpful content. Publishers following SEO best practices will not be penalized.
Engineers from Stanford have developed a chip that does AI processing within its memory, eliminating the separation between compute and memory units. The resistive random-access memory (RRAM) chip is about the size of a fingertip and can do more work with limited battery power than current chips. It has demonstrated efficiency, accuracy, and the ability to do different tasks in lab tests. Further development of the chip could result in smart electronics that can be placed almost anywhere.
Mezli is a fully robot-run restaurant founded by a trio of Stanford graduate students. It is the first automated restaurant in San Francisco without any humans on-site. The food is prepped and pre-cooked off-site by a team of two people. It is then loaded into a box with an oven that can pump out about 75 meals an hour. Mezli offers a menu of Mediterranean-inspired bowls, with the cheapest bowl starting at $6.99.
VueUse is a collection of essential Vue composition utilities. There are over 200 functions written in TypeScript to choose from. The utilities are flexible and fully customizable. They can be used via a content delivery network without any bundlers.
counts is a command line tool for ad hoc profiling. It tallies line frequencies within text files and shows the total line count with all the unique lines ordered by frequency and individual and cumulative percentages. counts supports weighting and negative weights are allowed.
Inflation has impacted the price of tech products. It is less visible as technology products have long production cycles. There have been numerous examples this year of devices getting more expensive or not falling in price as they usually do. This is partly caused by ongoing supply chain issues and other inflationary effects.
Many jobs aren't useful or interesting and the work is mind-numbing. This can cause developers to feel like their skills are being wasted. This Hacker News thread discusses how to find interesting work. The top replies advise working at a company big enough to have interesting work and to expect to make tradeoffs for other job perks.
Kieran Setiya, an MIT philosophy professor, published a book that examines the problems of middle-aged happiness and how philosophy can help people find peace of mind.
Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' music video contains one of the natural resonant frequencies for some laptop hard drives, causing the laptops to crash whenever the video is played on them or on nearby machines.