Discord explores virtual rewards for its ad product as it prepares for a potential IPO
Discord announced on Wednesday that it’s experimenting with a new virtual reward system aimed at encouraging more users to engage with its interactive ads. This new feature, called “Orbs,” comes on the heels of the company preparing for a potential IPO. Users can earn Orbs by completing “Quests,” Discord’s ad
Read moreWith iOS 19 on the way, Apple looks toward mobile gaming
With Apple’s flagship Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event a few weeks away, the company is signaling that it’s paying attention to the opportunity of mobile gaming. Apple already has a subscription-based Arcade product for iOS, which gives users access to various mobile games, including cult-classic indie games like Stardew Valley.
Read moreExtreme Networks Launches AI-Driven Platform ONE in South Africa
Duxbury Networking has announced that Extreme Networks’ next-generation networking platform, Extreme Platform ONE, is being rolled out to South African businesses. This will help alleviate the pressure local companies are under to modernize, secure, and simplify their network infrastructure. According to André Kannemeyer, CTO at Duxbury Networking, this shift represents
Read moreA deep dive into building an agent framework for Salesforce
We’re always trying to make it easy for users to pick out the information they need and gain insights into their processes, so a natural language interface seemed like a dream.
Read moreHow Mathematica Draws a Dragonfly
Mathematica includes code to draw various whimsical images. For example, if you enter the following command in Mathematica Entity["PopularCurve", "DragonflyCurve"][ EntityProperty["PopularCurve", "Image"]] you get an image of a dragonfly. It draws such images with Fourier series. You can tell by asking for the parameterization of the curve. If you enter
Read moreHow often to the hands of a clock line up?
How often do the hour and and minute hand of an analog clock point in the same direction? The hands start pointing the same direction at midnight, then the hour hand moves clockwise (!) by 360° in 12 hours. The minute hand moves clockwise at the rate of 360° in
Read moreInstacart appoints chief business officer Chris Rogers as new CEO
Instacart announced on Wednesday that its chief business officer, Chris Rogers, has been appointed as the company’s new CEO. The appointment is effective August 15. Rogers will also join Instacart’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes a few weeks after Instacart CEO Fidji Simo shared that she’s stepping down to join OpenAI
Read moreAtomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industry
Atomic Canyon raised $7 million in a seed round to expand its document search AI for nuclear power plants.
Read moreElon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation
Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, Neuralink, has raised $600 million in a funding round that values the company at $9 billion pre-money, Semafor reported, citing anonymous sources. Semafor did not mention the investors involved in the round. Neuralink last raised $43 million in venture capital, in November 2023, and was
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