Taxi Fair Negotiating App Available for Lesotho Commuters
Global innovator in mobility and urban services, inDrive, has announced the introduction of its ride-hailing service in Lesotho, as part of the company’s ongoing expansion in Southern Africa. Unlike conventional ride-hailing apps, inDrive permits drivers and passengers to determine their own fares, rather than complying with prices set by algorithms.
Read moreA Guide to Migrating from Webpack to Vite
Learn how to migrate a frontend app from Webpack to Vite, including why you should do it, and how to install Vite and update plugins. Continue reading A Guide to Migrating from Webpack to Vite on SitePoint.
Read moreOne company’s quest to eliminate battery fires
Battery fires are bad. Just ask LG, GM, Tesla, Volkswagen or any of the hundreds of people whose e-bikes have caught fire. While fires caused by EVs are a relative rarity compared with fossil fuel vehicles, that doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous. But there’s something that batteries have that fossil
Read moreMedical research made understandable with AI (ep. 601)
On today’s episode we chat with two of the leaders at Sorcero: CEO Dipanwita Das and CTO Hellmut. Sorcero uses AI and large language models to make medical texts more discoverable and readable, helping knowledge to more easily spread, increasing the chances doctors and patients will find the solutions they
Read moreX reportedly tests removing headlines from links to news articles
The Verge A report from Fortune claims that X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has tested stripping headlines from articles shared on the site. Posts would only include the lead image and the URL, unless the person or publisher posting the link adds their own text, per
Read moreDipp uses AI to fix bottlenecks between marketing and design teams
Before founding dipp, Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City. During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often
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Read moreCan the chi squared test detect fake primes?
This morning I wrote about Dan Piponi’s fake prime function. This evening I thought about it again and wondered whether the chi-squared test could tell the difference between the distribution of digits in real primes and fake primes. When data fall into a number of buckets, with a moderate number
Read moreChip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest
Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker symbol “ARM,” five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulators. The outfit didn’t provide a projected share price in its F-1 paperwork, but SoftBank recently
Read moreMax Q: SpaceX’s Bandwagon program is a big deal, actually
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: SpaceX’s new rideshare program News from India’s space agency and more SpaceX’s new Bandwagon program is a big threat to small launch providers SpaceX is expanding its rideshare program with a new series of missions aimed at meeting the demand
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