Month: April 2024
X is launching a TV app for videos ‘soon’
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is launching a dedicated TV app for videos uploaded to the social network soon. X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced on Tuesday that the new app will bring “real-time, engaging content to your smart TVs.” The app’s interface looks quite similar to YouTube’s, as seen in a teaser video … Read more
The Noonification: Leetcode: Two-sum an Intuitive Approach (4/23/2024)
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. ## Can You Open Medical Data (MR, CT, X-Ray) in Python and Find Tumors With … Read more
TechCrunch Minute: How Headspin’s founder fraudster almost got away with lying to investors
News that the former founder of HeadSpin is headed to prison for fraud was further evidence that the last boom in the paired worlds of startup and venture capital led to more than just a little bit of fraud. Manish Lachwani, founder in question, is getting prison time and a massive fine for lying to … Read more
Managing Large Data Volumes With MinIO, Langchain and OpenAI
In the rapidly evolving world of data storage and processing, combining efficient cloud storage solutions with advanced AI capabilities presents a transformative approach to handling vast volumes of data. This article demonstrates a practical implementation using MinIO, Langchain and OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model, focusing on summarizing documents stored in MinIO buckets. The Power of MinIO MinIO … Read more
Can You Open Medical Data (MR, CT, X-Ray) in Python and Find Tumors With AI?! Maybe
A few days ago, I underwent an MRI scan. They slid me into a large tube, and for 15 minutes, the machine around me buzzed, hummed, and clicked. At the end of the examination, I received a CD containing the data. What does a good developer do in such a situation? Of course, as soon … Read more
Samsung’s new glare-free OLED TV is receiving its first discount
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Don’t kick yourself if you missed out on Samsung’s free TV preorder promo from earlier this month. The company is now offering a much better cash discount on one of its most notable new models: the glare-free Samsung OLED S95D TV. The smallest TV in the lineup, the … Read more
Bringing down sky scrapers’ sky-high carbon footprint with Joselyn Lai from Bedrock
Jocelyn Lai appeared on TechCrunch’s Found to discuss her company and its hopes of driving down the cost of a proven technology to address the climate crisis. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses get video calling, Apple Music, and a new style
There’s a new cat-eye frame called the Skyler. | Image: Meta Meta just announced a slew of new updates for its Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg just dropped an Instagram reel showing off a new cat-eye frame style for the glasses and a video calling feature. You can also now connect the glasses … Read more
Exploring Dart Fundamentals – Part 5: Inheritance and Method Overriding
1. Inheritance Definition and Importance: Inheritance is a core principle of object-oriented programming where a new class, called a subclass or derived class, can inherit properties and methods from an existing class, known as a superclass or base class. Example Clarification: In your example, the Car the class serves as the superclass, representing a generic … Read more
Ether ETFs Are Unlikely to Be Approved in May: Standard Chartered
The bank reiterated its year-end bitcoin and ether targets of $150,000 and $8,000, respectively.
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses have multimodal AI now
Overall, pulling out your phone is still faster, but it is handy for identifying things when you’re out and about. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It can be handy, confidently wrong, and just plain finicky — but smart glasses are a much more comfortable form factor for this tech. Continue reading…
Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5-$3B valuation for its AI search platform, sources say
Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at a valuation of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. The news comes on the heels of two other big fundraises that have seen company’s valuation leapfrog in … Read more
Fisker plans more layoffs as cash dwindles and bankruptcy looms
Fisker says it’s planning more layoffs less than two months after cutting 15% of its workforce, as the EV startup scrambles to raise cash to stay alive. Fisker expects to seek bankruptcy protection within the next 30 days if it can’t come up with that money, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory … Read more
Razer’s Viper V3 Pro mouse puts its dongle where it belongs
The white Razer Viper V3 Pro next to its large bundled HyperPolling Wireless Dongle. | Image: Razer Does your gaming mouse track its own position 8,000 times per second? If you’re the kind of person who cares, I suspect you might also want that mouse to track that fast out of the box — instead … Read more
How To Build a Referral System for Your Flutter Web App
You already know that Google will shut down Dynamic Links, one of the most popular Firebase features that allowed building a referral system for your service or app. :::info Deprecated: Firebase Dynamic Links is deprecated and should not be adopted in projects that don’t already use it. The service will shut down on August 25, … Read more
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Apple’s next iPad event is May 7
Apple just dropped an invite for its next event. Scheduled for May 7, the “Let Loose” presentation appears to be happening exclusively online – something that became standard fare for the company during the pandemic. Over the last couple of years, however, Apple has returned to in-person events, including WWDC, which kicks off in Cupertino … Read more
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A Digestible High-Level Overview of CPU & GPU Capabilities
A digestible high-level overview of what happens in The Die In this article, we’ll go through some fundamental low-level details to understand why GPUs are good at Graphics, Neural Networks, and Deep Learning tasks and CPUs are good at a wide number of sequential, complex general purpose computing tasks. There were several topics that I … Read more
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Is Halfway to Setting a New Record
Despite most Bitcoin ETFs seeing outflows recently, BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF has seen impressive inflows.
Asia is officially the most ‘disaster-prone’ region in the world
Residents clean debris of their destroyed houses at the Khaung Dote Khar Rohingya refugee camp in Myanmar’s Rakhine state on May 15th, 2023, after Cyclone Mocha made landfall. | Photo by Sai Aung Main / AFP via Getty Images No other region on Earth experiences more climate, weather, and water-related disasters than Asia, according to … Read more
Amazon launches an unlimited grocery delivery subscription
Image: Amazon Amazon is bringing back free(ish) grocery deliveries for orders over $35 in the form of a new monthly subscription program the company announced today. It’s $9.99 per month for Prime members and includes unlimited one-hour grocery delivery where it’s available, as well as unlimited 30-minute grocery pickups, with a half-cost option for low-income … Read more