Week 35 - 2023

Pop artists Meghan Trainor and the Jonas Brothers were among the winners at the 2023 Streamy Awards, which honored Internet culture. Trainor won the Rolling Stone sound of the year award for her song "Made You Look," while the Jonas Brothers won in the crossover category. The event celebrated various content creators across different categories and was hosted by MatPat. To learn more about the event and the winners list, you can check the link below.

Mass shipments of the iPhone 15 Pro Max are expected soon, to be available for September of this year. To know about the sells projections, and what may helped avoiding the delay, can be found in the link below.

The World Parrot Trust is requesting Elon Musk to donate the former Twitter logo; named by some of you "Larry", to raise awareness about the critically endangered Lear's Macaw. To learn more about the issues facing the parrot, and the speculations about this donation, you can check the link below.

Apple is working on a new version of the iPad Pro to be released in 2024, featuring M3 chips and OLED displays. To learn about the other features, and the other Apple's announcements, you can check the link below.

Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue Visual Studio for Mac, focusing instead on enhancing Visual Studio and VS Code for cross-platform development. To know the deadline for the end of the support, and the alternatives that are available for Mac users, you can check the link below.

Panasonic is testing power-generating glass integrated with perovskite solar cells, aiming to sell it by 2028. The glass panels remain transparent and act as windows, with a conversion efficiency claimed to be the world's highest at 17.9%, although China's UtmoLight recently achieved 18.6%. To get the details of their production, and how they are going to be used, you can check the link below.

A team of computer scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed Scalene, a Python profiler that identifies and suggests improvements for Python code inefficiencies. You can find in the link below, the description of the optimization process, and the recognition that this work had.

Automatic 1111 and InvokeAI, two popular user interfaces (UIs) for Stable Diffusion, have announced major upgrades, introducing new features and improved performance. For more details about these UIs, you can check the link below.

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