Month: April 2024
Spotify bought Parcast — now its founder is launching a new entertainment studio
Image: Getty Images Parcast founder Max Cutler left Spotify last February as part of a wave of high-profile departures from its podcast vertical, and he’s now launching Pave Studios to create content across multiple formats. “Storytellers who successfully engage audiences and create fandoms through written, audio, and video content have led the charge in cultivating … Read more
‘DePIN’ Is Venture Capitalists’ Latest Crypto Obsession. Can It Match the Hype?
Already a multi-billion-dollar sector of the crypto industry, the DePIN narrative is a promising one, according to experts.
Distributed training and efficient scaling with the Amazon SageMaker Model Parallel and Data Parallel Libraries
There has been tremendous progress in the field of distributed deep learning for large language models (LLMs), especially after the release of ChatGPT in December 2022. LLMs continue to grow in size with billions or even trillions of parameters, and they often won’t fit into a single accelerator device such as GPU or even a … Read more
Mahesh Kambalan on Next-Gen Healthcare Analytics
How Did Mahesh Kambala Contribute to the Fight Against COVID-19? During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry faced unprecedented challenges that highlighted the importance of healthcare analytics in addressing data gaps and managing resources. Prioritizing and integrating analytics with healthcare objectives was crucial for saving lives, addressing weaknesses, and improving preparedness for future disruptions. … Read more
Babies born this year face a $500,000 climate bill
A sign warns of elevated fire danger in the Oakland Hill area of Oakland, California, on Thursday, October 29th, 2020. | Photo by Philip Pacheco / Bloomberg via Getty Images Hate to break it to you, baby — but if you were born in the US this year, climate change could wind up costing you … Read more
Manage your Amazon Lex bot via AWS CloudFormation templates
Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications. It employs advanced deep learning technologies to understand user input, enabling developers to create chatbots, virtual assistants, and other applications that can interact with users in natural language. Managing your … Read more
Why You Should Forget Everything You Know About Problem Solving
People often approach problem-solving like a locked box, searching for a key in the dark. Picture this: You are a consultant, on a business trip. You are getting ready for an important presentation with important prospects in an hour. You feel ready, you have prepared for this, and you decide to go through your slides … Read more
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Investors and founders can meet their match with Cherub, the ‘Raya of angel investing’
Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea. Today they are the co-founders of Cherub, a marketplace that pairs angel investors with entrepreneurs. Vuong spent nearly five years working in … Read more
The Noonification: HackerNoons Emoji Credibility Indicators are Live on GitHub and Figma! (4/16/2024)
How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Analysis of Network Graphs: Visualizing Hamilton Characters as a Social Network By @iswaryam [ … Read more
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Consumer tech investing is still hot for Maven Ventures, securing $60M for Fund IV
Overall, 16% of Maven’s portfolio companies have reached a minimum $500 million exit or valuation, which is 10x industry average, the firm said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
TechCrunch Minute: Why Tesla’s big layoffs happened, and what comes next
Tesla’s layoffs and executive departures took a bite out its share price this week. The well-known electric vehicle company shed around 10% of its staff, impacting an estimated 14,000 staff or more. Two well-known executives also decided it was time to move on. In response to the news, shares of Tesla lost ground. The company’s … Read more
A secure approach to generative AI with AWS
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the customer experience in industries across the globe. Customers are building generative AI applications using large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs), which enhance customer experiences, transform operations, improve employee productivity, and create new revenue channels. FMs and the applications built around them represent extremely valuable investments … Read more
Bitcoin in a ’Stealth Bear Market’ When Priced Against Gold, Says Peter Schiff
The financial analyst and media commentator once said the price of BTC will never hit $50,000.
What the History of Linux Says About the Long Road to Decentralized Storage Adoption
Decentralized cloud is the stable end state for computing.
Silicon Valley prankster Danielle Baskin launches Moonlight, an online tarot platform
Bay Area artist Danielle Baskin is not a first-time founder – but this is the first time she’s started a tech company that isn’t a performance art piece, or an elaborate joke. Still, she has a tongue-in-cheek tagline to pitch her latest venture: “It’s SaaS for witches.” She’s not kidding. Moonlight is a free online … Read more
Using Low-Code Development to Streamline Internal Business Processes
Today’s business world has become very appreciative of agility and efficiency. Companies keep searching for new ways to optimize working processes and intensify the productivity of said processes. One of these ways is low-code development. This article dives into how low-code development can be helpful in business process automation and the upsurge of process transparency, … Read more
US Treasury ‘Bending Old Laws Past Their Breaking Point’ in Tornado Cash Case: Coinbase
“Immutable, open-source software code isn’t property,” Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote in a post on Tornado Cash.
30-Day .NET Challenge – Day 26: Loop Unrolling
The article demonstrates the advantages of loop unrolling by iterating over multiple items per cycle while adjusting the loop counter accordingly. Learning Objectives The problem with iterating using traditional loops Advantages with loop unrolling Prerequisites for Developers Basic understanding of C# programming language. Familiar with for loops Getting Started The problem with iterating using traditional … Read more
Saga Reveals Massive Airdrop With Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche Projects
Projects across multiple chains are helping Saga drive staking with bundles of token and NFT airdrop rewards in the months ahead.
The 1970 Let It Be Beatles documentary is coming to Disney Plus
The Beatles in the United Kingdom, circa 1960. | Photo by Keystone-France / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images It has been hard to find physical copies of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be in the years since its theatrical release, but Disney Plus is getting ready to debut a remastered version of the … Read more