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First up, that old digital camera collecting dust in your drawer might be more useful than you think. With clean HDMI output or USB tethering, many older cameras can serve as surprisingly sharp webcams, giving your video calls a real upgrade over the grainy built-in lens on your laptop. Worth a look before you toss it.
Meanwhile, in the world of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin and Ethereum are having a quiet stretch, but privacy-focused coins are drawing attention. Zcash and Monero have both posted notable gains over the last twenty-four hours, reminding investors that when the flagship coins go flat, money tends to hunt for movement in smaller corners of the market.
And over at Uber, engineers have published a deep dive into what they call hybrid core allocation, walking through how the company moved from overallocating computing resources to a more reliable sharing model across its infrastructure. It is a dry-sounding problem with real consequences for how large platforms manage cost and performance at scale.
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