Rocket Lab’s private mission to Venus slips to 2025
Rocket Lab’s mission to Venus, which was originally scheduled to launch last month, is “not imminent,” a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. That means the mission will likely move ahead no earlier than January 2025, the only publicly stated back-up window for launch. “Our focus right now is on delivering customer
Read moreSalesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company
Salesforce reported earnings on Wednesday, and while it wasn’t quite the heady rush of last quarter’s unexpectedly strong offering, it was by all accounts decent. And as far as Wall Street is concerned, the numbers beat analyst’s expectations. Good on them, that always feels like a key investor metric when
Read morePrivate LLMs on Your Local Machine and in the Cloud With LangChain, GPT4All, and Cerebrium
Photo by Thomas Dewey on UnsplashThe idea of private LLMs resonates with us for sure. The appeal is that we can query and pass information to LLMs without our data or responses going through third parties—safe, secure, and total control of our data. Operating our own LLMs could have cost benefits
Read moreMonthly crypto exchange volume tumbled in May, hitting 32-month low
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Although there are a lot of builders in the crypto space, the total money being invested into the crypto market has hit 32-month lows in May. Cryptocurrency monthly exchange volume, which calculates spot
Read moreDrive times app ETA brings its handy location dashboard to CarPlay
Nearly a decade after its launch, ETA’s simple drive times app is finally making its way to Apple’s CarPlay. The newly updated app, which offers an alternative first step to planning a trip, isn’t meant to directly compete with mobile maps or other navigation apps. Instead, it serves as more
Read moreMeet me at the dog run
You’ll have to forgive me, I spent most of the morning thinking and writing about VR. In the lead-up to Apple’s expected headset announcement at WWDC next week, I did a one-person crash course into the world of extended reality, from its birth in the laboratories in the ’50s and
Read moreMore SpaceX Starlink terminals will go to Ukraine following new order from Pentagon
The Department of Defense said Thursday it is buying more Starlink terminals from SpaceX for use in Ukraine, as the conflict between that country and Russia wages well into its second year. The Pentagon provided little other details about the order, however, including the number of terminals it would purchase
Read moreTech investment portfolios suffer write-downs amid global economic slowdown
Some high-profile venture capital and private equity firms are slashing the valuation of their holdings, causing billions in apparent profits to evaporate as the economic downturn undermines the sustained growth of the last 13 years. The California Pension System, the largest pension system in the U.S. whose investments are sprinkled
Read moreOvercoming Styling Frustrations Caused by Astro Islands and Slots
Photo by Claudio Testa on UnsplashAfter using Astro for a while, I realized that Astro’s biggest features — islands and slots — both delight and frustrate me.Most people know the delights, so I won’t bother writing about them in this article. I’ll focus on what frustrates me and how I resolve those frustrations.First, we need
Read moreOpen Source Photogrammetry Pipeline
An Open Source Photogrammetry PipelineIn this article, I’m gonna teach you how to transform your drone photos into 3d models and put the result on a mapPhoto by Jonathan Lampel on UnsplashIntroductionAccording to Wikipedia:Photogrammetry is the science and technology of obtaining reliable information about physical objects and the environment through the process
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