Insights into Stack Overflow’s traffic
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen inaccurate data and graphs circulating on social media channels regarding Stack Overflow’s traffic. We wanted to take the opportunity to provide additional context and information on the origin of that data, the traffic trends we are seeing, and the work we’re doing to
Read more5 lessons robotics founders can learn from the AV industry
Sanjay Aggarwal Contributor Share on Twitter Sanjay Aggarwal is a venture partner at F-Prime Capital focused on frontier technology investment opportunities. Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. However, the category’s meteoric rise preceded an even
Read moreProductive constraints
This post will discuss two scripting languages, but that’s not what the post is really about. It’s really about expressiveness and (or versus) productivity. *** I was excited to discover the awk programming language sometime in college because I had not used a scripting language before. Compared to C, awk
Read moreIdentity-based attacks increasing, warns CrowdStrike
Successful identity-based attacks continue to plague IT departments, according to CrowdStrike’s sixth annual Threat Hunting report. Based on an analysis of what they call interactive intrusions — where a threat actor was operating with hands-on-keyboard in a victim’s IT environment for the 12-month period ending June 30 — researchers found:
Read moreNvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said today that the company had made an existential business decision in 2018 that few realized would redefine its future, and help redefine an evolving industry. It’s paid off enormously, of course, but Huang said this is only the beginning of an AI-powered near
Read moreCruise inches into Waymo’s territory in the Phoenix area
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has expanded its robotaxi radius in the Phoenix area by 20x as it seeks to compete with Alphabet-owned Waymo in its home court. Cruise soft-launched its robotaxi service in Chandler, a city southeast of Phoenix, in December 2022. The expanded arena will now
Read moreMedia groups urge the Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s news blocking
The CBC, News Media Canada, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters have filed an application with the Competition Bureau asking it to investigate Meta’s alleged anti-competitive conduct. This comes after Meta announced that it has started the process of ending news availability in Canada in response to the passage of
Read moreModern Software Engineering — Part 5: Continuous Evolution
“If you don’t evolve, you will die. “- Marcus LemonisContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreChris’ Corner: Useful HTML and CSS Patterns
The <table> is one of the grand enemies of responsive design. They don’t wrap (that wouldn’t make much sense) so they can “blow out” the width of a mobile device pretty easily. The overflow property also doesn’t work on them. So you gotta find a way, and it really depends
Read moreCollaboration aims to boost cancer research and develop innovation economy in Ontario
The University of Toronto’s Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) has joined forces with FACIT, a commercialization venture firm, in a move to bring AI-powered cancer research to the forefront while fostering economic development in Ontario. The partnership between T-CAIREM and FACIT is grounded in
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