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Read moreThis sex toy company uses ChatGPT to whisper sweet, customizable fantasies at you
It was only a question of time, I suppose, before someone made a generative AI that can whisper sweet, sweet obscenities at you. Lovense – perhaps best known for its remote-controllable sex toys – this week announced its ChatGPT Pleasure Companion. The company’s newest innovation in sex tech is to
Read moreAn Introduction to Native CSS Nesting
Now that CSS nesting has started to land in browsers, learn how you can use it to write more efficient CSS without using a preprocessor. Continue reading An Introduction to Native CSS Nesting on SitePoint.
Read moreSamsung is holding its next Unpacked on July 26 to unveil new foldables
Samsung announced today that it is holding its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 26, where the company will likely unveil the Galaxy Fold 5 and the Galaxy Flip 5 foldable phones. The company is hosting the event — termed “On the Flip Side” — in Seoul, South Korea for
Read moreNotion hits €300M for its fifth fund, but is unimpressed by big rounds into Generative AI startups
When it first appeared on the scene around ten years ago, Notion Capital was poised to take advantage of the oft-repeated phrase, “Software is eating the world.” In particular, it was aiming at what was then called the enterprise SaaS space. Several years on, and it’s capitalised on that thesis,
Read moreIndia’s electric two-wheeler sales hit a speed bump
In India’s bustling streets, where two-wheelers are seen as the primary mode of transportation, a powerful shift toward electrification has been underway. Fossil fuels still dominate the South Asian nation’s automotive industry, but a shift towards EVs — particularly in the two-wheeler category — is underway. More than 1.3 million
Read moreThreads passes 2 million downloads in 2 hours
It’s day one for Threads, Meta’s new Twitter clone, and people are signing up in droves. Threads passed two million signups in its first two hours live in the App Store and shows no signs of slowing down. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted the milestone on his Threads account. Threads
Read moreBrinc launches new program for climate tech startups
Brinc, the Hong Kong-based accelerator backed by investors like Animoca Brands, is launching a new program for fledgling climate tech startups. The three-month program is tailored for founders who are focused on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). They will receive fundraising support, guidance on how to scale up and introductions to
Read moreMark Zuckerberg’s remarks on China cast shadow over Meta’s VR quest
As Meta sets its sight on introducing its virtual reality headsets to the Chinese market, Mark Zuckerberg’s contentious remarks about Beijing in the past may pose a major obstacle to his China dream. According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by
Read moreComplex differential equations
Differential equations in the complex plane are different from differential equations on the real line. Suppose you have an nth order linear differential equation as follows. The real case If the a‘s are continuous, real-valued functions on an open interval of the real line, then there are n linearly independent
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