#30 Daily Tech: No-one knows what they are doing

No-one knows what they are doing

When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They clearly don’t have a clue. A more mediocre bunch of individuals would be hard to find.

You Can Run Doom on a Chip From a $15 Ikea Smart Lamp

Software engineer Nicola Wrachien demoed his creation in a video that shows the chip running a memory-optimized version of Doom over his custom hardware.

Meta Reveals VR Headset Prototypes Designed to Make VR 'Indistinguishable From Reality'

Meta says its ultimate goal with its VR hardware is to make a comfortable, compact headset with visual finality that’s ‘indistinguishable from reality’. Today the company revealed its latest VR headset prototypes which it says represent steps toward that goal.

Facebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right.

In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple would block those apps from harvesting users’ data.

🏆 Promotion-based development

While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled upon a term that got my attention — promotion-based development.

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