How much carbon pollution is in your product? Muir AI raises $3.25M seed to answer that question
Everything from materials to manufacturing and distribution leaves a carbon footprint, and not all vendors report their emissions.
Read moreTD Bank unveils free accessibility tool for online inclusivity
Last week in Toronto, TD Bank Group announced the public release of TD Accessibility Adapter, a Chrome browser plug-in, during the opening night of the 2023 Elevate Festival. This tool, previously confined to TD employees, is now available for public use in Canada and the United States. The initiative marks
Read moreWeb3 funding is down again as the crypto winter drags on
Crypto pretty much seems to have lost its allure as far as venture capitalists are concerned.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Things I Totally Didn’t Know About That I Learned From Taking the State of HTML 2023 Survey
Lea Verou helped craft the State of HTML 2023 Survey — the first of it’s kind! HTML, you say? What is there to ask? HTML isn’t exactly what I’d think of as a fast-moving technology. I hear there is a <search> element now, so that’s new. It’s sugar for <div
Read moreHot takes in IO: 3 potential pitfalls of NYC Local Law 144
Introduction If you have a job, you are no stranger to the use of technology in hiring. Chances are that you applied to a job on the internet, using a resume that you developed from an online template. The company you applied to likely used an applicant tracking system (ATS)
Read moreJava Invokedynamic: Bootstrapping an Alternative Method
This experiment intends to demonstrate the power of invokedynamic instruction in JVM. Let’s redefine some bootstrapping logic!Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreSupereggs, squigonometry, and squircles
The Depths of Wikipedia twitter account posted a screenshot about supereggs that’s popular at the moment. It says there’s no way this is real. they must be making these words up above a screenshot from the Wikipedia article on supereggs saying The definition can be changed to have an equality
Read moreFTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial for fraud and conspiracy
Photo illustration by Cath Virgina / The Verge The trial could have huge implications for the crypto industry. Stay up to date as The Verge covers the trial from the Manhattan court. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is on trial for eight counts of wire fraud
Read moreEyeing vision-based autonomy for farm equipment, Bonsai Robotics raises $10.5M
One can’t accuse Bonsai Robotics of lacking focus. The Bay Area-based firm is starting with trees — specifically nut trees. Like most labor-intensive sectors these days, farms have suffered from a profound lack of available workers, so the startup began striking deals with OEMs to outfit heavy farming equipment with
Read moreGoogle Pixel Event 2023: How to stream the Pixel 8 reveal
The biggest question at this point is whether Google has any more surprises up its sleeve. The company appears to have announced everything about the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel Watch 2 but the price. And even that appears to have been revealed amid a torrent of leaks.
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