Investors take note: Wildfire smoke will spark a surge in East Coast climate tech startups
As smoke from Canadian wildfires has enveloped large swathes of the East Coast, millions of people have found themselves trapped inside, gazing out on orange skies and hazy cityscapes. The air quality index — which is usually ignored — has suddenly become an object of fascination and source of small
Read morePopular third-party Reddit app Apollo is shutting down as a result of Reddit’s new API pricing
The popular third-party Reddit app Apollo is shutting down on June 30, 2023, as a direct result of Reddit’s recently announced new API pricing plans which would end up costing Apollo $20 million per year to continue to operate its business — an unsustainable ask for an indie developer. The
Read moreStreaming Log Files in Real-Time with GoLang and WebSockets: A ‘tail -f’ Simulation
How to create a streamlined communication channel between the server and client sidesPhoto by Artem Sapegin on UnsplashRecently, I came across a programming task required to display the last ‘n’ lines of a log file on a web interface, echoing the functionality ‘tail -[n] -f.’ The tail -f -30 /var/log/nginx/error.log command that
Read moreMercedes first to sell vehicles in California with hands-free, eyes-off automated driving
Mercedes-Benz received a permit from California regulators that will allow the German automaker to sell or lease vehicles in the state equipped with a conditional automated driving system that allows for hands off, eyes-off driving on certain highways. The California Department of Motor Vehicles said Thursday it issued an autonomous
Read moreSpring Boot 3 and GraalVM
An in-depth overview of the many featuresImage by geralt on PixabaySpring Boot 3 comes with support for native images. This is the part for GraalVM. GraalVM transitions from a just-in-time (JIT) compiler built into OpenJDK to an ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. As a result, it speeds up the startup time and reduces the
Read moreEnd-to-End Testing Your Rust Service
Introducing a very lightweight, simple approachPhoto by Fausto García-Menéndez on UnsplashIf you’re building a web API in Rust, you need a way to test your endpoints end to end. Unit tests ensure your logic is correct, but a proper end-to-end test can verify that your infrastructure, routing, database migrations, and security settings
Read moreHow to keep your new tool from gathering dust
When technology organizations run into problems, they often look to tech products to solve them. It makes sense: we build tech to solve problems, so naturally we look to someone else’s tech to solve our problems. But for any piece of tech to work as intended, you have to make
Read moreLinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies
Weeks after Meta launched a suite of generative AI-based tools to help advertisers create different campaigns, LinkedIn has introduced its own tool to suggest different copies of an ad. The company said that it uses data from a marketer’s LinkedIn page and Campaign Manager setting including objective, targeting criteria, and
Read morePigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel
Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Pigment wants to take on Microsoft Excel and offer a business planning platform that works better than products from enterprise software behemoths, such as Oracle or SAP. It’s a new take
Read moreUK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants
Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as its PR puts it. There’s no word on who will
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