Goals and Failure Modes for RFCs and Technical Design Documents
Lessons learned from experience steering technical design collaborationImage generated by Midjourney: A scroll depicting an architecture diagramAt a certain scale and ecosystem complexity, software engineers need a way to socialize their bigger design ideas outside of code review. Sometimes this starts as engineers just informally writing their ideas down in
Read morePhoto layout app Series makes it easier to post your panos to Threads
Series, an iOS photo app that helps you layout your photos in creative ways for posting on social media, is now shaping up to become the must-have companion app for users posting their photos to Instagram Threads. On Threads, users soon realized that you could view images full screen and,
Read moreThis $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password
Attendees at Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, are used to weird shenanigans, such as a seemingly innocuous wall of computer screens that display people’s passwords sniffed over the conference Wi-Fi network. But at this year’s event, even conference veterans were confused and concerned when their iPhones
Read moreNFL Sunday Ticket gets student plans, flexible billing, live chat and more
YouTube is bringing Sunday Ticket subscribers six new updates ahead of the NFL season, including student plans, monthly payment plans, live chat/polls, real-time NFL highlights in YouTube Shorts, multiview and the “Key Plays” feature, which tracks the most important plays in the game. The student discount is the most notable
Read moreKatie Haun will discuss the future of crypto at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Launching two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion is a thrilling accomplishment, especially for a woman in an industry that’s still male-dominated. It’s decidedly less thrilling when, just a few months later, the bottom of the fund’s target market doesn’t just drop, but also nearly disintegrates. How do you move forward?
Read moreIvory Coast Pioneering Responsible Use of Social Networks
Ivory Coast is positioning itself as a pioneer of the responsible digital era in West Africa with the deployment of an ambitious communications strategy. Spearheaded by Communication and Digital Economy Minister Amadou Coulibaly, the initiative aims to revolutionize the way citizens interact and use social networks. Strategy Reinforcing Responsible Use
Read moreAmazon Music Unlimited is raising prices for Prime members, family plan users
The price of Amazon Music Unlimited plans is increasing for Prime members and customers on the family plan, Amazon revealed on a FAQ page on its website. The Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan for Prime members is increasing from $8.99 to $9.99 per month, or $89 to $99 per year.
Read moreWomhub and Cisco EDGE Illuminate the Role of Partnerships in Shaping Progress
In celebration of a new forged alliance between Womhub and Cisco EDGE, the teams came together to discuss the importance of partnerships and collaborations in shaping the landscape of progress, highlighting the stories that brought them to where they are today. In the discussion led by Hema Vallabh, Nadia Moosajee,
Read moreMeet Marqo, an open source vector search engine for AI applications
Vector databases are the unsung heroes of the modern AI movement, storing unstructured data such as images, videos and text to enable people and systems to search uncategorized content. They are particularly integral to large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT), owing in large part to the
Read moreDynamoFL raises $15.1m to help enterprises adopt ‘compliant’ LLMs
DynamoFL, which offers software to bring large language models (LLMs) to enterprises and fine-tune those models on sensitive data, today announced that it raised $15.1 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Canapi Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. The tranche, with had participation from Formus Capital and Soma
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