The Myth of the Second Chance
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Month: April 2024
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England
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What To Do As A Startup Without A Market
Summer 2023 was a tough time for Web3 projects. Our company was bordering on breaking even with no ETA in sight. While we were looking for new possibilities and business ideas, we worked hard on developing existing products and services. In a volatile space, we had to work in a trial and error mode, with … Read more
The Pen, Mightier (2011)
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Tales from an Attic
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The unstallable plane that stalled
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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark
A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as president and CEO since September 2014. Ittycheria has taken MongoDB to the cloud, steered it through an IPO, overseen its transition from open source, launched a venture capital arm, and grown the customer base from … Read more
Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge It was Valentine’s Day when Meta’s ad platform started going off the rails. RC Williams, the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based marketing agency 1-800-D2C, had set one of Meta’s automated ad tools to run campaigns for two separate clients. But when he checked the platform that day, he found that … Read more
The Delta emulator will soon turn your iPad into a giant Nintendo DS
Delta is about to get better on the iPad. | Image: Riley Testut The Delta emulator made a huge splash when it hit the Apple App Store earlier this month, quickly rocketing to the top spot in Apple’s free apps, where it remains today. Now, developer Riley Testut says an iPad-specific version is “near completion,” … Read more
Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story Stripe announced that it will … Read more
Unveiling the Architecture: Key Papers to Understand Distributed Systems!
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable. This famous quote from, Leslie Lamport, an A.M. Turing Award Laureate, summarizes the challenges in building and maintaining a distributed system. But why is there a need for such complicated systems? With … Read more
Where to get started with Fallout
Image: Bethesda Game Studios A sampling of the four modern games in the series for those jumping in after the Amazon show. Continue reading…
The OLED iPad Pro could launch with an M4 chip
Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge Apple is preparing for its big AI coming out party in this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference; that much you can count on. But apparently, the company is going to start that party a little early with the OLED iPad Pro that it’s expected to unveil on May 7th. According … Read more
This Week in Crypto Games: Notcoin Token Launch Nears, Immutable’s $50 Million Giveaway
The Notcoin launch is only days away, while Immutable is giving out rewards and Charles Hoskinson’s studio released a game—not on Cardano.
How RPA vendors aim to remain relevant in a world of AI agents
What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universally accepted definition of agent, but these days the term is used to describe generative AI-powered tools that can perform complex tasks through human-like interactions across software and web platforms. For example, … Read more
Should the stock market never close?
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How to Earn $1 Million With AWS in One year
If you bumped into this page thinking you’re gonna get rich with some get-rich-quick scheme, I’m sorry to disappoint you. This article will rather talk about how to decrease your cloud cost bills by $1 million. By doing that, you will have essentially generated an extra million dollars in revenue — which you can spend buying my … Read more
Battle of the best robovacs (that iRobot doesn’t make)
We put the Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra head-to-head against the DreameBot X30 Ultra to find out which of these Roomba competitors’ flagship robot vacuums is the best. Continue reading…
George Stephenson
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Reentry – An Orbital Simulator
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