Jun 13, 2020
2 min read
Big Tech News š¢
- Amazon had a rollercoaster of a month. One of their Engineering VPs left Amazon due to their handling of some employees and wrote a public piece about them that went viral. Do you ever get confused by 4870127340127 services that AWS offers? Here is a resource that explains each one of them in a single line.
- Facebookās iOS sdk crashed a lot of iphone apps that were using Facebook inside their app (like for Facebook logins). It made a lot of people freak out. They also launched a new chatbot that it claims is able to demonstrate empathy, knowledge and personalityā¦ too bad they used Reddit to train the machine learning model. Also, Facebook bought Giphy for 400 million dollars. Yesā¦ you read that right. The most insane value for a business that nobody probably thought would make any money.
- Twitter will start allowing employees to work remotely from now on. The world of tech is changing with more and more remote work. Expect many companies to follow.
- Big news out of Apple as they expand the Swift programming language to support Windows and Linux.
- SoftBank and its Vision Fund isnāt doing too well.
- MongoDB is in hot water after a researcher claims that they donāt have the data consistency claims that they make.
- Research out of Google shows that 70% of security problems on the web are due to memory safety. This explains why languages like Rust are becoming more popular instead of C/C++ for low level programming.
