Product teams often have tons of screen recordings and screenshots that end up unused. Video production using those screen recordings has been time-consuming and expensive. That’s why two former Microsoft employees started to build Lica, which is an AI tool that easily creates tutorials and product videos out of screenshots and screen recordings. The startup was … Read more
The sun rises over our Pacific islands, a testament to our rich heritage and untapped potential. Yet, as dawn breaks, a critical question looms: Are our leaders truly serving our people’s economic future? In the corridors of power across our island nations, a profound disconnect exists. While the global economic landscape transforms at lightning speed, … Read more
Coinbase added another meme coin to its listing roadmap today, pushing MOG near all-time highs in the process.
The Ethereum co-founder also proposed changes to ease transfers among layer-2 scaling networks.
Average Bitcoin and USDT deposits across crypto exchanges escalated over the year, indicating a rise in institutional demand for digital assets.
Speculative decoding is an advanced AI inference technique that is gaining traction in natural language processing (NLP) and other sequence generation tasks. It addresses one of the most significant challenges in deploying large-scale models: balancing computational efficiency with the quality of generated outputs. Models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 have set new benchmarks in AI capability … Read more
Fashion resale marketplace ThredUp has divested its European business to focus on its core domestic U.S. market. ThredUp expanded into Europe in 2021 with the acquisition of Remix, a Bulgarian startup that operates across a handful of central and eastern European markets. Back in May, ThredUp announced a new general manager, Florin Filote, to lead … Read more
Whales made a splash on the South Korean exchange Upbit, swooping in with significant amounts of Tether’s USDT stablecoin to snap up coins at discounted prices after the declaration of martial law led to a flash crash in bitcoin (BTC) and other token prices. The large traders transferred over $163 million in USDT to Upbit … Read more
Illustration: The Verge Google officials had concerns about potential human rights violations that might be linked to its $1.2 billion contract with the Israeli government before ever even signing the deal, according to documents first reported on by The New York Times today. “Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation … Read more
Space startup SpinLaunch is fundraising again, though a source tells TechCrunch that it was exploring raising a significantly more ambitious sum earlier this year. The company has closed an $11.5 million round out of a planned $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. SpinLaunch confirmed funding to TechCrunch, but … Read more
At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the general availably of its Trainium2 (T2) chips for training and deploying large language models (LLMs). These chips, which AWS first announced a year ago, will be four times as fast as their predecessors, with a single Trainium2-powered EC2 instance with 16 T2 chips providing up to 20.8 … Read more
“Sora PR Puppets”: Artists Leak OpenAI’s Sora Video Model, Exposing Controversial Testing Practices In a bold move highlighting growing tensions between artists and AI developers, a protest group known as “Sora PR Puppets” has leaked access to OpenAI’s unreleased text-to-video model, Sora, on the Hugging Face platform. This act of defiance sheds light on alleged … Read more
Last year, we published a series about what Google had done to the web, capped off by a feature about search engine optimization titled “The People Who Ruined the Internet.” It made more than a few SEO experts upset (which was tremendously fun for me because I love watching people yell at Nilay on various … Read more
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Marketplaces for software and services based on reviews are starting to reach their sell-by date. The user-generated reviews on sites like G2 and Capterra (one of Gartner’s three software directories) have often been accused of being paid for by software vendors. In fact, 8 out 9 of the reviews on the first page of G2’s … Read more
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music’s yearly recap is back — and this time, it’s available to see and share from directly within the app. If your iPhone runs iOS 18.1 or later, you can now access Apple Music Replay 2024 from the Home, New, and Search tabs. Otherwise, you’ll have to … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, December 3, 2024? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The Times of India founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in 1838, The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opened in Montreal. in 1817, … Read more
:::info The Startups of The Year 2024 showcases exceptional companies across 100 industries. Nominations are based on regional and industrial excellence, not just location. This series will detail our key industries and demonstrate how HackerNoon can help you explore them further. ::: Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world — … Read more
The creators of the Flexbar think Apple’s Touchbar deserves a second chance as a standalone solution. | Screenshot: YouTube Apple may have said goodbye to the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar last year, but a team of four engineers believes the concept deserves a second chance. They’ve created the Flexbar, which is essentially a standalone version … Read more
Yield Guild Games founder Gabby Dizon says “conviction” in gaming is more important to him than “chasing narratives”: Hall of Flame
Amid political upheaval in South Korea, the price of Bitcoin fell by 33% on Upbit before rebounding, with XRP charting an even sharper dip.