January 2022 Updates

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Here is the Spotify COVID content policy that lets Joe Rogan slide

Leaked messages reveal the company has reviewed every Rogan episode and none ‘meet the threshold for removal’

Spotify employees are vocally upset inside the company over the streaming platform’s deal with Joe Rogan due to his views on COVID vaccines, but their executive leadership has mostly stayed quiet both inside and outside the firm. Today, however, Dustee Jenkins, Spotify’s head of global communications and public relations, posted a message to the company Slack addressing employee concerns about Joe Rogan’s presence on the platform after Neil Young removed his music in protest.

In screenshots viewed by The Verge, Jenkins said she “lead[s] Public Affairs” and that the company has reviewed multiple controversial Joe Rogan Experience episodes and determined they “didn’t meet the threshold for removal.” She adds that Spotify employs an “internal team of some of the best experts in the space” and also works with third parties who “advise us and help us evolve our policies given what’s going on in the world around us.”
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DeepMind AI tackles one of chemistry’s most valuable techniques

Machine-learning algorithms predict material properties using electron density.

London-based artificial-intelligence company DeepMind has developed a machine-learning model that suggests a molecule’s characteristics by predicting the distribution of electrons within it. In principle, the structure of materials and molecules is entirely determined by quantum mechanics, and specifically by the Schrödinger equation, which governs the behavior of electron wavefunctions.

These mathematical gadgets describe the probability of finding a particular electron at a particular position in space. The new approach can calculate the properties more accurately than existing techniques.
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Introducing Meta’s Next-Gen AI Supercomputer

Mark Zuckerberg has announced his social media empire is building what he claims is the world’s fastest AI supercomputer as part of plans to build a virtual metaverse. He says that the metaverse, a concept that blends the physical and digital world via virtual and augmented reality, will require “enormous” computing power.

AI mimics the underlying architecture of the brain in computer form and is capable of processing, and spotting patterns in, vast amounts of data. Meta generates significant amounts of data from its 2.8 billion daily users.

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SEBI in action ; Gonna release Saa₹thi mobile app for investor education soon

SEBI has launched its mobile app, Saa₹thi, to create awareness among investors about the basic concepts of the securities market. The app, available in Hindi and English, will also explain about KYC process, trading and settlement, mutual funds (MF), recent market developments and investor grievances redressal mechanism, among other things. It would be made available in regional languages in future.

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Performance boost and new dart features brought by Flutter 2.8

Flutter is getting a bump to version 2.8, for which the team has focused on improving the performance of apps on mobile devices. By simply updating to Flutter 2.8, you’ll gain these enhancements, and your apps should open faster as well as use less memory. Flutter update also comes with a simultaneous update to the Dart programming language SDK, to version 2.15. Meanwhile, Google is also taking time to highlight their partnership with Flame, a third-party game engine built on top of Flutter, which has reached its 1.0 stable release today.
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Firebase makes its way to apple tv and apple watches .

As Firebase now offers beta level support for tvOS and macOS, developers can now use Firebase products to build apps that are compatible with Apple TVs and MacBooks. It works from a single codebase to deliver a cross-device experience. Game developers also get some pretty big improvements when developing for Apple TV and Apple Arcade. Many of the Firebase C++ SDKs now support Apple TV.
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WhatsApp for iPad ? Yes it might be soon

WhatsApp head Will Cathcart confirmed during an interview that the Meta-owned messaging app is finally considering a native app for iPad.

WhatsApp users have always clamored for a native app on the iPad but now they might get it soon. WhatsApp head Will Cathcart confirmed during an interview that the Meta-owned messaging app is finally considering a native app for iPad. Users have clamored for an iPad app for the longest time. Many times the traces of WhatsApp working on an iPad app were also spotted by tippers but nothing concrete ever came out of those leaks and rumors.
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Firefox 96 released! Developers get enhanced CSS, Canvas support.

Mozilla has released Firefox 96 which supports properties as the color-scheme property, which allows an element to indicate which color schemes in which it can be comfortably rendered , the counter-reset property supports the reversed() function now for building reversed CSS counters, which are useful for numbering elements in descending order. The hwb() function for use as a CSS color_value has also been implemented which describes a color according to its hue, whiteness, and blackness.
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AngularJS No Longer Supported Officially

Although Google announced AngularJS was entering long-term support over three years ago, AngularJS is still in wide use today. The long-term support for AngularJS has officially been discontinued. While AngularJS will still remain available, its repo will be archived and will receive no more additional updates, including security patches.
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.day Domains Launched By Google For Making Special Days more Special

Google has launched the .day domains (a Top Level Domain).Google says that these domains are perfect for everything from bringing attention to a special cause to building a community, to even amplifying your own personal brand. At this point, the early-access fees range from $190.00 – $16,520.00 for premium domains but the cost of domain name registration will become lower as we get closer to February 2022, when the general registration period is open.
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UI Trends 2022: Top 10 Trends Your Users Will Love

2021 was an interesting year in UI design. Last year’s events foreshadow big changes on how we use technology in the future. For this yearly prediction top list of UX Studio, we collected 10 of the latest UI trends, some ongoing, and some far reaching. Let’s dive into what the defining elements will be in 2022 based on what happened in 2021.
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General Assembly vs IxDF UX Bootcamps: Which UX Certification Is Right For You?

We’re going to compare General Assembly’s User Experience Immersive, (hereafter referred to as GA’s Bootcamp) and the IxDF bootcamps, so you can make an informed decision and a worthwhile investment. Specifically, we will explore course topics, approach, grading and tutors, community, cost, and career opportunities. We have also created two other comparison pieces, Google UX Design Professional Certificate and CareerFoundry.
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Why are all popular NFTs avatars? (from a product perspective)

From the well-known CryptoPunks, Bored Ape to Hong Kong locally created Bunny warriors, Lucky Kittens. They are all avatars. If we think NFTs are the digital presence of the traditional art market, this definitely does not align. Portraits are not particularly dominant in the traditional art market. This doesn’t happen out of luck. Here are the product reasons behind that.
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