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Rise and shine, it's Monday - time to conquer the week!

#Discord - Discord has started showing advertisements. And since they get paid more if their users also click on these ads, it seems like Discord is luring users to click on them by promising them the new Discord currency.

#NewAppAlert - Google has released a new app on GitHub called AI Edge Gallery. It’s an experimental Android app for running generative AI large language models offline. The processing is all performed locally, so you get more privacy and offline functionality.

Apple To Open 3rd India Retail Store
Apple announced it's opening its 3rd retail store in India, in Bengaluru, ahead of the iPhone 17 launch, amidst US trade tensions. This move aims to boost sales in the growing Indian market.

Ola Electric's Bleak Financial Report: Revenue Plunges, Losses Soar
Ola Electric's quarterly revenue fell the most since the company’s IPO in August 2024. Full fiscal-year losses hit a record of Rs 2,276 crore, up 43.7%. On Friday morning, the company's share price opened at Rs 48, down nearly 10%.

YouTube - Introduces side-by-side mid-roll ads for livestreams on eligible CTV and web broadcasts.

YouTube Again - Adds Lens feature to Shorts, allowing users to search for information about objects, animals, and landmarks within a video.

WhatsApp - New Status update features including photo collages, custom photo stickers, "Add Yours" stickers, and song-focused posts.

Perplexity - Introduced Perplexity Labs, a tool that enables users to craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more using AI-powered research and analysis.

Microsoft Edge Game Assist - Adds support for over 80 optimized games, keyboard shortcut support, and new features like Paste Game Title, while also offering separate tabs, favorites, history, and extension access.

Gmail - Automatic AI-powered summaries for complex email threads are now generated above emails on mobile devices, updating in real-time as new replies are received.

Microsoft Edge - Introduces picture-in-picture enhancements with new playback controls, adds Web Content Filtering for businesses, and removes features like Image Editor and Wallet Hub to streamline the experience.

Notepad - Added lightweight formatting with Markdown support, including bold and italic styling, hyperlinks, lists, and headings, with options to switch between formatted and plain text views.

Google DeepMind - Introduces SignGemma, a new AI model that translates sign language into spoken text, with initial support for American Sign Language (ASL) and English.

Zag | Build your design system in React, Solid, Vue or Svelte. Powered by finite state machines

Gallery | A gallery that showcases on-device ML/GenAI use cases and allows people to try and use models locally.

Livestore | LiveStore is a next-generation state management framework based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine.

The Temporal API: A New Era For Date And Time Handling In Javascript
Learn about the history of JavaScript's Date object, its quirks, and limitations, and how the new Temporal API aims to fix these issues, providing a more robust and intuitive way to handle date and time in JavaScript.

Exceptional Startups: 20 Habits Of Success
Tyler Hogge shares 20 habits of exceptional startups, including beating expectations, recruiting top talent, shipping products fast, and obsessing over quality, based on his experience working with and investing in startups.

You'll never be ready for anything that matters
Startup founder shares inspiring story of transformation, riding from San Francisco to LA while struggling with addiction and new fatherhood, highlighting the importance of taking action despite feeling unprepared.