Palico is now the first FINRA-approved company to facilitate online LP-led secondaries deals

Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothing new. But traditionally these transactions happen offline through an opaque network of brokers that could charge costly fees and prove prohibitive for certain LPs to participate. Palico is looking to change that. Paris-based Palico quietly got … Read more

Niantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scanniverse app

Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scanniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scanniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation with faster rendering. The company … Read more

Transformers: Age of Attention

In 2017, a group of researchers (from Google and the University of Toronto) introduced a new way to handle natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Their revolutionary paper “Attention is All You Need” presented the Transformer model, an architecture that has since become the basis of many advanced AI systems today. The model’s performance, scalability, and … Read more

Samsung will soon let you create AI wallpapers on its touchscreen refrigerators

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung has announced new AI capabilities for its smart appliances, including new AI-generated wallpapers for certain refrigerators, as well as an AI upgrade for its Bixby voice assistant. The updated Bixby will hit five Samsung Bespoke appliances starting on August 27th. AI-generated wallpapers are coming to Samsung Family … Read more

Writing Procedures Part 1: Voice and Style

First of all, let’s see what a procedure is. A procedure is a piece of text that provides step-by-step recommendations on how to perform a task. The main purpose of a procedure is to tell the user how to achieve a certain result. Therefore, a procedure should have: Clearly stated task. Clearly stated result (or … Read more

Build a Data Warehouse Not to Drown in Your Data Lake

Have you ever wondered how football commentators keep up with everything happening on the field and know so much about each player in real-time? The secret sauce for their knowledge is that they can access a data warehouse with all the records and statistics. In business, companies are flooded with information and struggle to use … Read more

Indiegogo will guarantee shipping for some crowdfunding campaigns

Image: Indiegogo Indiegogo is taking a renewed swing at holding crowdfunding campaigns accountable for shipping products with a new program. The company’s “Shipping Guarantee” initiative promises that anytime you support an eligible campaign, you’ll get your order on time or your money back. The guarantee will apply to campaigns that meet eligibility requirements, which include … Read more

Importance of Mentoring in Digital Tech

Introduction Since the beginning of 2024, I have begun mentoring for free on one of the largest mentoring platforms. My work covers both short-term and long-term sessions, but my main focus is on developing long-term mentoring relationships. As part of this approach, I develop individualized programs consisting of more than five sessions, held weekly for … Read more

The Commoditization of Attention

How Memecoins Are Redefining Crypto Culture and the Attention Economy I was one of the few females in the early days of cryptocurrency, and the culture was as wild and untamed as the markets themselves. VIP events catering to “whales,” the term for big-money investors, often took place in strip clubs, where flashy displays of … Read more

Beam Mobility secretly deployed ‘phantom’ e-scooters in Australia and NZ to dodge fees and boost profits

Shared e-scooter startup Beam Mobility has placed hundreds of extra “phantom” scooters on city streets in Australia and New Zealand to avoid paying vehicle registration fees to local governments, according to a two-part report from The Australian. Cities place caps on the number of vehicles operators can deploy to avoid saturating streets and sidewalks with … Read more

Postgresql and Port 5432 issues on Ubuntu 24.04

After reading extensively about the best databases for Rails development, I finally settled on PostgreSQL (mainly because my instructor on YouTube used it). I decided to switch from SQLite to PostgreSQL, and I was very pleased with the results. Following tutorials on how to build with PostgreSQL using the Ruby on Rails framework was smooth, … Read more