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Waymo, the self-driving car division of parent company Alphabet (Google), has become a common form of transportation in San Francisco. With a local SIM card, you can install an app and summon a robot — a self-driving Jaguar I-Pace.

The crypto market is back in the spotlight due to several important economic events. We asked Vugar Usi Zadeh, COO of one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, Bitget, to talk about them and draw conclusions about how the situation will develop further.

The world of game development is evolving rapidly, and every development team faces the issue of funding and publishing their project. How to release a game so that millions of players will learn about it? Where to find funds for marketing, localization, and distribution? Should I look for an investor who will invest in development, or should I contact a publisher who will help with market entry?

Karina Karaga, a seasoned designer and neuroscience, who has worked at Apple and IBM, is originally from Bulgaria. In 2022, she decided to move to Kyiv to volunteer there, and later, despite the full-scale war, she moved to the Ukrainian capital altogether. Together with her partner, certified coach Radinella Dimitrakova, Karina runs a startup called Vodar, which is developing a platform to help sports coaches effectively teach mental skills, even without prior psychology experience. Karina told dev.ua how she decided to choose Ukraine as her place of residence during a full-scale invasion, how she manages to develop a startup in such conditions, how Vodar helps tennis players around the world, and what special program with free access is planned for Ukrainian tennis coaches and athletes to support their talent and resilience.

Yana Vershinina, a business analyst and CRM specialist, as well as QA and PM, raised the topic of communication, tasks, and notifications on weekends and after the workday. The specialist shared her thoughts on what she believes should and shouldn’t be done. Other tech professionals who were not indifferent to this topic also joined her in the comments.

UI/UX Designer Valeria Tynok shared a frankly strange experience of completing a test task. The employer, the girl claims, actually admitted that her test was part of a real project. What do the company say? (the news is supplemented with the company’s position and the comment of the CEO of Heaven Soft.

On May 5, Microsoft finally stopped supporting and operating the Skype messenger, whose functions have been taken over by many more modern services. However, Skype had support for voice over IP (VoIP) technology, which allows you to make calls from the program to phone numbers. This feature is not available to all modern messengers.