Month: January 2025

Vector Storage, Indexing, and Search With MariaDB: What to Know About These New Features

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When you develop generative AI applications, you typically introduce three additional components to your infrastructure: an embedder, an LLM, and a vector database. However, if you are using MariaDB, you don’t need to introduce an additional database along with its own SQL dialect — or even worse — its own proprietary API. Since MariaDB version … Read more

When the East Out-Codes the West: The Hottest AI Race You Can’t Miss: DeepSeek & ChatGPT

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Sometimes, the biggest lesson comes from the smallest company. Or so it seems in the rapidly unfolding AI arena, where China is—dare we say—charging ahead like a rocket strapped with fireworks. A New Sputnik Moment? China isn’t just catching up to the U.S. in artificial intelligence—it’s often leaping ahead. In an age where generative AI … Read more

Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices

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Logitech sales boomed during the pandemic as people outfitted their home offices, and it’s getting a piece of the hybrid workplace with teleconferencing gear too. But Logitech’s also got a little-known corporate office management solution that could soon expand beyond conference rooms — using a pebble-shaped person detection device called the Logitech Spot. It’s a … Read more

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts. DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race … Read more

India’s Internet Users Surge Past 900M, Driven by Indic Language Adoption

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The internet user base in India is set to surpass 900 million by 2025, driven by the growing use of Indic languages for digital content. The ‘Internet in India Report 2024,’ jointly prepared by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and KANTAR, reveals that the number of Active Internet Users in India reached 886 million in … Read more

Spanish PM Wants to End Anonymous Social Media Accounts

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Digital ID has always been about ending online anonymity while giving governments & corporations the power to manipulate, coerce, or incentivize human behavior: perspective Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez calls for the end of anonymity across all social media platforms by forcing them to link all user accounts with the European digital identity wallet. “I … Read more

Is Tesla’s Robotaxi or a Bold Step or a Blunder?

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After months, actually years of waiting, Tesla finally unveiled its robotaxi last October. Much analysis went into the new self driving car. The company unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi with two gull-wing doors and no steering wheel or pedals. The “Cybercab” is a two-seater and low slung, a design far from the idea of a taxi right now, causing experts to criticize it, … Read more

David Sacks claims there’s ‘substantial evidence’ that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own

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David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto “czar,” said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI company DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft. Sacks, who didn’t cite the source of this “evidence,” suggested that DeepSeek used responses from OpenAI models to … Read more

Front End Debugging Part 3: Debugging Networking Communication Issues

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Debugging network communication issues is a critical skill for any front-end developer. While tools like Wireshark provide low-level insight into network traffic, modern browsers like Chrome and Firefox offer developer tools with powerful features tailored for web development. In this post, we will discuss using browser-based tools to debug network communication issues effectively. This is … Read more

Key Requirements for Supporting Web3 and dApps in Multi-Cloud Environments

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Motivation 2.1 Decentralized Computing Infrastructure and Cloud 2.2 Advantages of DeFaaS 2.3 System Requirements 3 Overview of DeFaaS 4 Detailed Design of DeFaaS and 4.1 Decentralized Scheduling and Load Balancing 4.2 Decentralized Event Distribution 4.3 API Registration and Access Control 4.4 OAuth2.0 Support 4.5 Logging … Read more

Why DeFaaS is the Next Step for Secure and Scalable Blockchain Applications

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Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background and Motivation 2.1 Decentralized Computing Infrastructure and Cloud 2.2 Advantages of DeFaaS 2.3 System Requirements 3 Overview of DeFaaS 4 Detailed Design of DeFaaS and 4.1 Decentralized Scheduling and Load Balancing 4.2 Decentralized Event Distribution 4.3 API Registration and Access Control 4.4 OAuth2.0 Support 4.5 Logging … Read more

How DeFaaS Uses the Blockchain to Solve Cloud Computing Problems

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:::info Authors: (1) Rabimba Karanjai, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston (rkaranjai@uh.edu); (2) Lei Xu, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University; (3) Lin Chen, Department of Computer Science, Texas Texh University; (4) Nour Diallo, Department of Computer Science, University Of Houston; (5) Weidong Shi, Department of Computer Science, University Of Houston. ::: Table … Read more

The Rise of Quantum Computing: What It Means for the Future

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Quantum computing is projected to have a cumulative economic impact exceeding $1 trillion by 2035. This is because quantum computers are expected to perform calculations in seconds that would take traditional supercomputers many years to accomplish the same task. At its core, quantum computing relies on the principles of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, entanglement, … Read more