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Murali Krishnan

@muralirk.bsky.social
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Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Technologist, Engineer, Dad. Cofounder deriq.ai Co founded RapL. Paper2audio.com iOS app. Executive at Starbucks and Microsoft. Love running & hiking; Learning Tennis

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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Washington state gas prices are hitting new highs. I wondered if there may be any relief soon. Seems unlikely. #Washington #oil #prices #economy substack.com/profile/2419...
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Yesterday, I pulled in to get gasoline at the Costco gas pump in Kirkland, WA. Usually Costco has lower cost per gallon. Despite that my fuel bill nearly touched $100 for a full tank of gasoline. Gone...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Am about to build a new home PC fully making it a Linux PC. What parts and design to use? What variant and version of Linux and UI should I use? What are the minimum dev tools to load on this machine? What is the simple browser to install? Should the machine be called a PC? #PC #Linux #OS
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Lori Dunn @theloridunn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The engineers who couldn't build anything didn't quit because the work was hard. They quit because everything they tried to own got pulled back up the chain. #leadership #management
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Little steps; giant growth. www.linkedin.com/posts/murali...
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#techhistory #microsoft #innovation #software #hardware #networking #growth | Murali Krishnan
little steps, giant results! 💾 From 1 Floppy Disk to a Trillion-Dollar Empire In the late 80s, I had one prized possession - a 5.25" floppy drive with MS-DOS in it. I can walk around the College of E...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Saw this framework for controlled UI rendering from AI Seems interesting Any insights on such frameworks ? github.com/vercel-labs/... #AI #UI #json #developer
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GitHub - vercel-labs/json-render: AI → JSON → UI
AI → JSON → UI. Contribute to vercel-labs/json-render development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Ouch! Math grades are challenging… One in eight UC San Diego freshmen have math skills that fall below high-school level, a 30-fold increase since 2020. One in 12 have math skills below middle-school levels. apple.news/A5xvhQ18sS66...
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Opinion | A Math Horror Show at UC San Diego — The Wall Street Journal
At one of California’s top universities, many freshmen are unable to do middle-school math
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
UCSD findings include that high school math grades are only very weakly linked to students’ actual math preparation. senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... #matb #college #admissions
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Data speaks Lower income parents say that it is enjoyable and rewarding to raise kids —— www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...
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Income and parenting
Parental worries vary considerably across income groups in the United States. From struggles with mental health to concerns about physical safety and teen
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
How are these app rankings done? Sora only had about 100K downloads in the last month. And rating is below 4. In contrast all the other top apps have millions of downloads in the last month and better reviews. See app.sensortower.com/top-charts #AI #appstore #sora #chatgpt #gemini #tea
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Top Grossing Apps | US | Top App Store Rankings for iOS
See the Top iOS Apps in US on the App Store Charts by Free, Paid, and Top Grossing. Sensor Tower provides a detailed visualization of the top ranking apps by category and country, along with app ranki...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
So chatGPT is the Chat and Go Purchase Things!! —- Who is delivering? #AI #shopping #chatGPT
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
some say bubble some say learning curve some say exponential can all these be true about #AI? #AI #analysis www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-will-de...
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AI Will Destroy Everything
But not in the way you think it will.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Paul MacCready achieved an impossible prize - the Kremer prize - for human powered flight. Now the story is retold with a mix of new and old footage. Great one to learn from for engineering and focus. #movies #flight #engineering www.altitudefilment.com/film/sales/1...
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THE FLIGHT OF BRYAN | Altitude
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Sora : ChatGPT Pro :: Amazon Prime Video : Amazon Prime #AI #AmazonPrime #videos
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
daily iterations are important. —— Almost every year I read Paul MacCready's story.  It is insightful. See uxmag.com/articles/you... #problemsolving #testing #creativity #innovation #habits
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You Are Solving The Wrong Problem
When solving a difficult problem, re-ask the problem so the solution helps you learn faster.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Here a chip, There a chip, Everywhere a chip … Meta is acquiring chip startup Rivos for a reported ~$2B to turbocharge its in-house AI chips #AI #chips #nvidia #meta
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
big numbers … —— ChatGPT crosses 1 billion daily queries. Perplexity and Claude near 20 million qpd. Wonder what may be the case for commercial and media queries search for. #AI #search #chatgpt #perplexity #claude
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40795302/ Next time if you want to combat “plant blindness”, you know what to do! A. Get outdoors and enjoy plants OR B. Watch Taylor Swift music videos. #plants #botany #learning
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Dance with plants: Taylor Swift's music videos as advance organizers for meaningful learning in Botany - PubMed
The use of audio-visual material with botanical visual clues as advance organizers, or a cognitive bridge between previous knowledge and new knowledge, led to meaningful learning in botany. Our result...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The system ran non-stop for 30 hours on one prompt. —— Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy - The Verge apple.news/AYVrYuCZvRFG... #AI #vibecoding
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Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy — The Verge
Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
feels like sci-fi .. cool breakthrough from collaboration across physics / optics, material science, electronics, computer science .. — Beating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics #imaging #lens #physics #computerscience #electonics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beating spectral bandwidth limits for large aperture broadband nano-optics - Nature Communications
Large aperture, diffractive metaoptics for broadband imaging have posed an outstanding challenge for miniaturized optics. In this work, Fröch, Chakravarthula, and colleagues address these challenges and successfully demonstrate a meta-optic with a 1 cm, f/2 aperture for full color imaging.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Participants who performed two to four times above the recommended amount of moderate physical activity had a 26% to 31% lower all-cause mortality and a 28% to 38% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality. #health #lingevity www.ama-assn.org/public-healt...
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Massive study uncovers how much exercise is needed to live longer
What is the ideal amount of physical activity that can help individuals live longer? Learn more about what the ideal exercise volume per week is.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Lots of Good resources for engaging the kids and also learn. open.substack.com/pub/wonderto...
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🌱 Raise curious kids with these tools
20+ dad-tested apps my family enjoys
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Major development. China is graduating to the "developed" world treatment. Congrats to China. ---- China announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country within the World Trade Organization. This will have changes to global trading.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Apple plans to roll out the feature to more than 150 countries, ... and it can help people discover high blood pressure early and reduce related conditions such as heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease. ---- www.reuters.com/business/hea... #AI #heart #bloodpressure #innovation #apple #watch
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Apple used AI to uncover new blood pressure notification feature in Watch
Apple Watch Series 11 models that go on sale on Friday can notify users that they may have high blood pressure, in a feature the company has powered using artificial intelligence rather than a blood pressure monitor.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
About a 100 years back, a new initiative sprung up in Iowa to understand and help grow a child. Inspiring history to learn more from. ouriowaheritage.com/sui-child-re... #Child #Parents #Education
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SUI & ICWRS – Helping Children Grow.
Except for the name – Carl E. Seashore – long-time professor at SUI, I’m guessing you’ve never heard of the names we’ve listed here. Yet, in truth, it’s dedicate…
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
GCP is just getting started to become the Global Cloud Provider (GCP) for AI. ---- Google Cloud added AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf as new primary customers. A large % of generative AI startups are starting with GCP. —- techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/h...
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How AI startups are fueling Google's booming cloud business | TechCrunch
Google Cloud is one of the company's fastest-growing business lines and continues to rack up new customers.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
benchmarks are powerful to help us learn more. ARC-AGI is one such a thing. more details at labs.adaline.ai/p/what-is-th... #AI #AGI #Benchmark #testing #evals #LLM
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What is the ARC AGI Benchmark and its significance in evaluating LLM capabilities in 2025
A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Abstract Reasoning Assessment in Large Language Models
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
good study and stark findings. Stratification in the US K-12 education www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
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Frontiers | Stratification economics and racial disparities in U.S. K−12 education
This manuscript introduces and applies the framework of stratification economics to understand persistent educational disparities between Black and White Ame...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Too many bananas is not healthy for data centers! Google Gemini app added 23 million users and handled 500 million image edits in two weeks! Google imposed temporary usage limits to keep the service stable. #AI #NanoBananas #Gemini #Images www.theverge.com/news/778106/...
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Gemini leapfrogs ChatGPT on a wave of AI-generated 3D figurines
Google’s Nano Banana image editor has helped Gemini overtake ChatGPT on app store charts.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Vibe coding is here. So is the vibe coding cleaning job. despite hurdles, people are iterating and creating the vibe coded apps. #AI #VibeCoding #tools techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/v...
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Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch
TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Granular usage analysis of 1.1M conversations in ChatGPT. #AI #chatGPT #usage #NBER www.nber.org/system/files...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Claude: Higher GDP per capita strongly aligns with higher per-capita Claude adoption. (the conclusion is NOT surprising, since Claude is well marketed to higher income population) www.anthropic.com/research/eco... #AI #Claude
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Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economy
New research from Anthropic exploring geographic patterns of AI use
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Gina @createnewpaths.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” ~Epicurus Last night on my road trip with my best friend.Sat on her deck and watched the sunset A joy to live in the confidence that my friend will always be there when help is needed Good night BlueSky😴💤🌙
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Lots of good ideas for Boston. If I were a mayor of Boston … Some are universal and applies to all cities : #transportation, #parks, #gardens, #education, #AI, #wine, #flyingcars, … www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/08...
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"If I Were Mayor of Boston, I Would..."
We asked 21 prominent locals what they'd do if they ran the city.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I don’t understand the push to “AI literacy” when people have difficulty to read or write. What am I missing?
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
CORE: Community, Openness, Research, and Equity - some good work underway on climate, education, etc. corefutureslab.org
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CORE Futures Lab
At the CORE Futures Lab, we are building a future where data serves truth, drives impact, and empowers communities, where it becomes a powerful force for healing, innovation, and transformation.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ouch 😅 !!
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
a big launch with free stuff - tools and training - for AI. Wish it also came with free surface PCs. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
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New White House commitments empower teachers, students, and job seekers through AI skilling and learning
Microsoft unveils new commitments that support the Presidential AI Challenge and the AI Education Executive Order to empower teachers and students, build AI skills, and create economic opportunity.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
it is fast growth for a fast delivery app company. fast growth with bet on quality and proximity techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/f...
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FirstClub bucks India's speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach | TechCrunch
FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Are you trying to escape the winter? Did you dream about flying with the monarchs? And instead ended up watching “UP” movie on the couch! Don’t! Get up and go outdoors to workout. #health #stayfit
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A page turner was released on Tuesday- historic. #Google Have anyone read it? —- storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Good video from a CMU math prof. I like his thinking about how to teach math, how to develop curiosity, thoughtfulness, teamwork, and coaching skills. Good speech. youtu.be/xWYb7tImErI
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The Only Trait for Success in the AI Era—How to Build It | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh
YouTube video by EO
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Our school district has an app now. It includes news from the district, schools, and calendar information. Go BSD
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Microsoft Research at Cambridge is reporting similar challenges as well. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Sharing stories of what value is created is important to engage customers and stakeholders. Credit: @valuedmerchants.com
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A different take on cognitive debt and such … arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 Claims “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” #AI #writing #cognitivedebt #criticalthinking
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The Morrill Act that originated the public colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the Mechanic art. Aka Land Grant Universities, three created immense transformations in the USA. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...
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Morrill Act (1862)
EnlargeDownload Link Citation: Act of July 2, 1862 (Morrill Act), Public Law 37-108, which established land grant colleges, 07/02/1862; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1996; Record Gro...
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Chris Del Grande @valuedmerchants.com · 29/08/2025
A hiring process should test more than skills. It should test alignment, grit, and humility. Those qualities can’t be faked long-term.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
and here is the worldwide smartphone usage - in billions! www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-man...
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4.88 Billion Smartphone Users In The World!
This articles provides the latest data about the number of smartphones and smartphone users. Learn about phone ownership trends through the years.
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
wow - mobile phones and smartphones are at near 100% penetration. people in lower income group are highly dependent on mobile phones for jobs, aid, etc. credits: @pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org/internet/fac...
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Mobile Fact Sheet
Americans today are increasingly connected to the world of digital information while “on the go” via smartphones. Explore the latest patterns, trends and statistics that have shaped the mobile revolut...
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Murali Krishnan @muralirk.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
a beautiful picture. thanks @deaptah.bsky.social
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