Month: August 2024

Zelda’s big adventure gets a new trailer

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Image: Nintendo When The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is released on September 26th, it will be the first Zelda game in decades with the titular princess as the hero. Nintendo has released a new trailer highlighting some of the new powers she’ll have and all the places she’ll get to use them. Princess … Read more

Flipkart blitzes into India’s 10-minute quick commerce battle

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India’s fast-growing quick commerce market is getting a new deeply-pocketed entrant: Walmart-owned Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm. Flipkart has started to roll out Flipkart Minutes, its quick commerce service, in parts of Bengaluru. The new service offers customers the ability to have a wide-range of items, from grocery to smartphones, delivered to them within 10 … Read more

I Led Dozens of Meta System Design Interviews, Here’s The Right Way to Prep

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When coordinating your interview at Meta (formerly Facebook), you’ll be asked whether you want to do a System Design Interview (“Pirate”) or a Product/API Design Interview (“Pirate X”). As a systems engineer myself, I chose the System Design Interview. Since you’re here, I’m guessing that’s your choice, too. After conducting system design interviews for dozens … Read more

Meet Stellar: HackerNoon Company of the Week

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Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of HackerNoon’s Company of the Week! This series aims to give tech companies from our database the big bright spotlight they rightfully deserve. And this week, we have another great one in store. Everyone, meet Stellar: A decentralized public blockchain that helps developers set up various payment options. … Read more

MEV Bots: How Do They Influence The Crypto Market?

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In theory, validators should determine the inclusion of transactions in a block. Still, in practice, this is done by searchers, independent participants who search for potentially profitable transactions and launch their bots into them. Validators still win a little bit because searchers set the gas fee above the average, and the delta goes to validators … Read more

No More AI Costs: How to Run Meta Llama 3.1 Locally

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I’m excited to tell you about Meta’s Llama 3.1, a powerful AI language model you can use for free. In this article, I’ll show you how to install and run Llama 3.1 on your computer. This means you can use it without the internet and save money on AI costs. https://youtu.be/UdcmnhmruIs?si=9okWfpSuMgd1AYOZ&embedable=true What is Llama 3.1? … Read more

Essential 2024 AI & Big Data Conferences: Oxycon, World AI Summit, AI Summit NY, Analytics Summit

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In 2023, I wrote about essential developers’ conferences to attend, highlighting their significance and benefits. The year 2024 has witnessed further developments in digital technology, with artificial intelligence (AI) and big data leading the charge and dominating the headlines. This year, there will be AI and big data conferences in different parts of the world … Read more

The Future of Web3 Games – Prospects and Dangers

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Web3 gaming is an exciting ecosystem that showcases the benefits of decentralization and blockchain-based economic models. In this article, we explore the current blockchain game market to understand where it’s heading. Web3 Games Today Gaming is a key sector for blockchain, often serving as the testing ground for Web3 innovations, such as new tokenomics or … Read more