Dyson’s Gen5outsize is an excellent home vacuum
You don’t need a $1,050 home vacuum. Nobody does. No one spends $1,050 on a vacuum because it’s the only way to get the job done. But that doesn’t mean you don’t want one. I don’t blame you if you don’t, however. I never particularly wanted a Dyson vacuum. I
Read moreLauncher’s Orbiter glitches in orbit, forcing emergency deployment of space startups’ payloads
Launcher’s Orbiter spacecraft experienced an anomaly after reaching orbit that will likely result in the premature end of its customer’s missions, including Starfish Space’s Otter Pup demonstration mission. Launcher and its customer Starfish Space released a joint statement Wednesday detailing what happened in the hours after the Orbiter spacecraft lifted
Read moreWith $18M in funding, System Initiative wants to modernize DevOps
The promise of DevOps is often frustrated by the reality of having to stitch together a bunch of products. System Initiative‘s co-founders believe that in order for DevOps to live up to its promises, it’ll take a wholesale reimagining of what this toolchain looks like. At the core of System
Read moreWhat’s the Point of Blameless Postmortems?
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Read moreWarner Bros. Discovery reportedly considers licensing HBO titles to Netflix
Two major streaming rivals in the industry may be working out a deal together. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is reportedly in talks to license HBO titles to Netflix. According to a Deadline report, the select library of HBO titles will be released on Netflix on a non-exclusive basis, which means
Read morePower of DocsGPT: A Tutorial on Querying PDF and Word Documents
Learn to use DocsGPT, a tool leveraging OpenAI’s GPT for querying PDF, PowerPoint, and Word documents using Google CollaboratoryScreenshot by authorA couple of months ago, my colleague Farhad and I came in an idea that made PDF queries using GPT-3 more accessible. We wrote a simple, functional code, created a repo,
Read moreMatching delimiters and chiastic patterns
When I first started programming I’d occasionally get an error because a delimiter wasn’t matched. Maybe I had a { without a matching }, for example. Or if I were writing Pascal, which I did back in the day, I might have had a BEGIN statement without a corresponding END
Read moreDatabricks is proof that strong unicorns can grow their way out of a market correction
Databricks recently revealed that it recorded revenue of more than $1 billion in the financial year ended January 31. The company also said it grew more than 60% last year and its data warehousing product crossed the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold in April. Databricks has always grown
Read moreFTC sues Amazon for using ‘deceptive’ tactics to sign up customers for Prime
The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the retailer worked for years to enroll consumers into its Prime service without their consent, while knowingly making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. The complaint, which was filed in federal court in Seattle, alleges that Amazon used “manipulative,
Read moreDeepMind’s RoboCat learns to perform a range of robotics tasks
DeepMind says that it has developed an AI model, called RoboCat, that can perform a range of tasks across different models of robotic arms. That alone isn’t especially novel. But DeepMind claims that the model is the first to be able to solve and adapt to multiple tasks and do
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