Jeff Lawson, the co-founder and recently departed CEO of enterprise infrastructure software company Twilio, is the proud new owner of satirical online newspaper The Onion. “Alright, the news is out — yes, I bought The Onion,” Lawson wrote in a LinkedIn post earlier today, after it first emerged in The New York Times yesterday. The … Read more
I always wondered how free apps make money. I did some research on this and found a lot of different avenues to follow. Let’s jump into the ins and outs of how to earn money with free apps Background I always encountered those exciting, sometimes annoying ads and pop-ups while browsing the web. YouTube has … Read more
Apple’s App Store isn’t always as trustworthy as the company claims. The latest example comes from RockAuto, an auto parts dealer popular with home mechanics and other DIYers, which is upset that a fake app masquerading as its official app has not been removed from the App Store, despite numerous complaints to Apple. RockAuto Co-Founder … Read more
“`  :::info All Images Generated With Bing Image Creator. It’s Awesome! (DALL-E-3) ::: > This is the breakout year for Generative AI!  *Yes, this article’s been written by a violinist and there’s new content! Spectacular new and awesome content!* **Well; to say the very least, this year, I’ve been spoiled for choice as … Read more
Crashes involving post-fix Tesla vehicles have prompted the NHTSA to look into how effective the Autopilot updates were. | Photo by Sebastian Gollnow / picture alliance via Getty Images Tesla can add yet another investigation into its Autopilot feature to what’s already piling up to be a pretty bad year for the company. On Friday, … Read more
Image: The Verge Shein, one of the most popular online shopping platforms, will be required to comply with strict regulations under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Commission announced today. The fast-fashion company reported having more than 45 million average monthly users in the EU, earning it the designation of a “very large … Read more
Image: Owen Grove / The Verge In March 2023, a North Carolina student was stepping off a school bus when he was struck by a Tesla Model Y traveling at “highway speeds,” according to a federal investigation that published today. The Tesla driver was using Autopilot, the automaker’s advanced driver-assist feature that Elon Musk insists … Read more
Rubrik’s strong IPO pricing and warm reception by the public markets after its listing add more weight to the perspective that the public markets are not as closed to tech startups as some thought. If Rubrik’s result isn’t enough to break the logjam, well, maybe there’s something else going on. But there was a lot more that … Read more
MAVIA surged in price soon after its February launch, but has plunged since. Now the Heroes of Mavia team is shaking up its plans.
Illustration by Diana Young Consumers are already putting AI tools to use for both productivity and creativity. But what’s next? Continue reading…
Mainland Chinese citizens will not be able to purchase Bitcoin and Ether ETFs in Hong Kong because mainland China banned crypto transactions years ago.
One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. There have been a few blog posts on how to use PostgreSQL for Everything, but none yet on why this is happening (and more importantly, why this matters). Until now! Table of contents 01 PostgreSQL … Read more
Quantum computing is the next most significant disruptive technological leap and its rapid evolution and funding will soon make it a reality.
Image: The Verge Last year, on a perfect spring day that also happened to be my birthday, I took a car trip to a beautiful area of New York state. It was a lovely day. The new foliage was just coming out and flocks of migrating birds were flying overhead — just the right day … Read more
:::info This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license. Authors: (1) Ryen W. White, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. ::: Table of Links Abstract and Taking Search to task AI Copilots Challenges Opportunities The Undiscovered Country and References ABSTRACT As many of us in the information retrieval (IR) research community know and appreciate, … Read more
Language models (LMs) represent a highly versatile category of technology, processing text inputs to generate textual outputs. Contemporary research has illuminated that this adaptable text-to-text framework can be harnessed to address a myriad of tasks without necessitating task-specific adjustments (i.e., absent fine-tuning or architectural changes) through the use of prompting methods to enable precise zero … Read more
From April 26, police can transfer seized illicit crypto to their controlled wallets, with victims able to reclaim funds from the accounts.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 26, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The Bitcoin network surpassed 926,000 daily transactions, driven by a growing interest in Runes.
The Web3 Foundation backs decentralized storage project StorageHub, while Polkadot founder Gavin Wood launches a new podcast.