Polaris Dawn will push the limits of SpaceX’s human spaceflight program – here’s how to watch it launch live
After a nearly three-year interlude, Jared Isaacman is returning to space. The billionaire entrepreneur first went to orbit as part of the Inspiration4 mission, which made history for having a crew composed entirely of private citizens, not professional astronauts. But with this next mission, Polaris Dawn, he and mission partner
Read moreOpenAI supports California bill requiring watermarks on AI content
OpenAI threw its support behind a California bill requiring tech companies to label AI-generated content, according to a letter from OpenAI’s chief strategy officer viewed by Reuters. The bill is headed for a final vote in August. AB 3211 requires watermarks in the metadata of AI-generated photos, videos, and audio
Read moreApple will replace CFO Luca Maestri next year
Apple announced today that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will step away from his executive role, effective January 1. Kevan Parekh, Apple’s current VP of Financial Planning, will be promoted to CFO after 11 years at Apple. Maestri has been CFO at Apple since 2014, and he’s now transitioning to
Read moreA Comprehensive Guide to Understanding TypeScript Record Type
Learn why the Record type is so useful for managing and structuring object types in TypeScript. Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding TypeScript Record Type on SitePoint.
Read moreAnthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick
Generative AI models aren’t actually human-like. They have no intelligence or personality — they’re simply statistical systems predicting the likeliest next words in a sentence. But like interns at a tyrannical workplace, they do follow instructions without complaint — including initial “system prompts” that prime the models with their basic
Read moreCare.com to pay customers $8.5M in FTC settlement for deceiving caregivers, families
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring Care.com, a platform for gig workers in the elder care and child care space, to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceiving caregivers who were looking for jobs and making it difficult for families to cancel their paid memberships. The agency said
Read morePalico is now the first FINRA-approved company to facilitate online LP-led secondaries deals
Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothing new. But traditionally these transactions happen offline through an opaque network of brokers that could charge costly fees and prove prohibitive for certain LPs to participate. Palico is looking to change
Read moreChris’ Corner: Gold Star CSS Bloggers
CSS still gives me the warm fuzzies sometimes. We’ve gotten so many amazing CSS features the past few years, that each alone makes me happy. But when those features are combined, I’m often stunned and get thinking about how we’re only scratching the surface of what is to come. Take
Read moreNiantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scaniverse app
Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scaniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scaniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation
Read moreApple iPhone 16 event set for September 9 with ‘Glowtime’ invite
Apple will unveil its iPhone 16 lineup on September 9, as the company has started sending out press invites on Monday for the upcoming event. The official announcement comes as previous reports had claimed that the event would take place on September 10. Apple is using the tagline “It’s Glowtime”
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