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Welfare Ministry and Sheba to establish $25 million innovation arm

The ARC Welfare initiative aims to streamline the work of more than 120,000 employees, address heavy workloads, and commercialize patents developed within the system.

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★ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection

My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology…

  • Article "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours" retracted due to incorrect premise
  • App "Dark Hours" was astrology-focused, not as initially claimed
  • Terry Godier's app was accurately rejected by App Store

Counting the days, revisited

  • Improved algorithm counts Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers
  • Adjusts for leap days, aligns January and February correctly
  • Optimized calculations using multiply-and-shift operations

Dithered QR codes

  • QR codes consist of function patterns and data modules
  • Brands modify data modules for distinctive codes
  • Floyd-Steinberg dithering improves noisy QR codes