7 days left to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is so close we can practically hear the hustle and bustle of 10,000 startup movers, shakers and future unicorns converging on San Francisco’s Moscone West. It all goes down September 19–21, and we can’t wait to see you there! Here’s a shoutout to all the last-minute decision
Read moreWith Postmarks, social bookmarking is back — but this time it’s built on the fediverse
The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the fediverse — the decentralized collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon and others. Portland-area web developer Casey Kolderup has launched Postmarks, a fediverse-enabled social bookmarking service
Read moreSquare says it has resolved day-long outage
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments. The Block-owned company had, up until Friday morning on the U.S. west coast, been battling a prolonged outage that had downed its services since Thursday afternoon. In a
Read moreCyber Security Today, Friday Sept. 8, 2023 – Are boards and CISOs communicating, the latest ransomware data and more
Are boards and CISOs communicating, the latest ransomware data and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, September 8th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. For the financial health of a company, a board and its chief information and security
Read moreJustifiable sample size
One of the most common things a statistician is asked to do is compute a sample. There are well known formulas for this, so why isn’t calculating a sample size trivial? As with most things in statistics, plugging numbers into a formula is not the hard part. The hard part
Read moreTesla’s $25,000 ‘next-generation car’ will have a Cybertruck design
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is reportedly preparing to build a $25,000 electric car built on the company’s next-generation engineering platform. Axios reports that Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson has detailed the plan to build a $25,000 electric car alongside an autonomous robotaxi that could ferry passengers
Read moreThe Power of Insights: Why Hybrid Cloud Observability is Vital for Modern Businesses
In the fast-paced digital landscape of today’s business world, adaptability and agility are key to staying ahead of the competition. This has led to the widespread adoption of hybrid cloud solutions, which offer the flexibility to scale and innovate at a pace that was previously unimaginable. However, with great power
Read moreGoogle flips the switch on interest-based ads with ‘Privacy Sandbox’ rollout
Google is now rolling out Privacy Sandbox — its tech to replace third-party cookies — to all Chrome users. The company is touting this as a more privacy-forward feature, which tracks topics of interest based on your browsing habits. Advertisers can then use this data to show you relevant ads.
Read more5 Ways Google is improving their Search Engine Features
Over the years google has tackled several deep, technical challenges in order to develop it into what it is today. There is a lot that has gone into building google to be the search engine that it is today. However, the reality is that search is never a solved problem
Read moreIndia’s Reliance partners with Nvidia to build large language model
Reliance Industries has partnered with GPU giant Nvidia to work on building a large language model that is trained on India’s diverse languages, the two firms said Friday, as the largest Indian corporate firm expands into the fast-growing but locally uncontested space. The companies will work together to build an
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