Cameo announces more layoffs as celebrity greeting market shrinks
Cameo, a website for ordering video greetings from celebrities, is downsizing again. The Chicago startup, which was valued at more than $1 billion in 2021, intends to lay off 80 workers. Reached by TechCrunch, CEO Steven Galanis confirmed that Cameo decided to “reduce the size of our team,” but the
Read moreCoffee Briefing Jul. 18 – Musk aims to get a grip on reality using AI; Scotiabank and Xero join forces to support Canada’s small businesses; Shutterstock offers enterprise indemnification for AI image creation; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Musk aims to get a grip on reality using AI Co-founder of SpaceX and current chief
Read moreAs growth becomes more elusive, a new set of software product benchmarks emerges
Even the fastest-growing software startups aren’t expanding as fast as they used to. Of course, this is partly by choice; you have to trade off growth if you want profitability, and vice versa. The yardstick for measuring startup performance has changed over the past year, but changing startup performance standards
Read moreA Solidity Symphony: Testing Events With Foundry
Image generated with Hotpot.aiIn the blockchain world, transaction execution and on-chain persistent storage modifications incur a fundamentally important cost. Observing emitted events is one way to circumvent the costs of on-chain interactions for data retrieval. Solidity events allow for a generally free and persistent way of capturing on-chain activities. Given
Read moreCode Style Matters in a Take-Home Interview
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Read moreEstablishing the Standards of a Real-World Kotlin Project
Kotlin isn’t JavaPhoto by Louis Tsai on UnsplashKotlin is a very nice programming language that is very easy to learn for teams that already have experience working with Java and add many interesting features that can make the development of your project easier and safer. Indeed, in my personal opinion, Kotlin feels
Read moreFiltering on how words are being used
Yesterday I wrote about how you could use the spaCy Python library to find proper nouns in a document. Now suppose you want to refine this and find proper nouns that are the subjects of sentences or proper nouns that are direct objects. This post was motivated by a project
Read more50 shades of ethical hacking
What color hat is the hacker that just penetrated your organization without your permission wearing? Gray? Black? White? Hacking is often perceived as a dichotomous matter, with two distinct sides: either you are a malicious hacker who intrudes into systems for personal gain, or you are an ethical hacker who
Read moreTo thread, or not to thread?
Threads – Meta’s new challenge to Twitter – has exploded onto the social media scene, quickly sewing up over 30 million users within three days of launching. Threads was launched on Wednesday 5 July by Meta in 100 countries (notably not yet in the European Union, where Meta says it
Read moreDeloitte Africa launches Generative AI practice
Deloitte Africa is pleased to announce the launch of its Generative AI practice for the African market. This new practice combines industry expertise, skilled AI engineers, and strategic ecosystem and alliance partnerships to develop Generative AI solutions aimed at accelerating business innovation. The capabilities of generative AI technology have sparked
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