Read from and Write to Amazon S3 in Polars
Image by Sixteen Miles Out on UnsplashHow do you work with Amazon S3 in Polars? Amazon S3 bucket is one of the most common object stores for data projects. Polars is a fairly new technology. There are only a few resources that explain how to work with S3.In this article, I’ll walk
Read moreEvaluAgent raises $20M to build out software that evaluates call center agents
After spending more than a decade in the customer experience industry, three friends, Jaime Scott, Michelle Dinsmore and Alex Richards, decided to launch their own company, EvaluAgent, to develop quality assurance testing software for contact centers. The three co-founders say they were motivated by a shared desire to find a
Read moreYouTube’s updated guidelines require channels to disclose if they are fan accounts
YouTube is making some changes to its guidelines on impersonation to require fan channels to make it obvious in their channel name or handle that they don’t represent the company or artist that their account focuses on. Updated guidelines will take effect on August 21, 2023. The company notes that
Read moreTerraform Labs founder Do Kwon jailed four months in Montenegro
Another chapter was published this week in the long and bizarre saga of Terraform Labs’ Do Kwon. The disgraced crypto founder will spend four months in a jail in Montenegro for falsifying official documents. A Basic Court in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, this week sentenced Kwon and the former chief
Read moreGoogle introduces new accessibility and collaboration features for classrooms
Google introduced new accessibility and learning features on Tuesday at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) expo. These features included expansion of the reading mode, pairing with a sign language interpreter in Google Meet, and AI-powered question suggestions in a class. The company has been experimenting with AI-powered
Read moreThe Overflow #183: Dev Survey on AI: Hype or not?
Welcome to ISSUE #183 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: The Developer Survey results are here, the advantages of public key cryptography over symmetric keys, and the reasons why AI won’t fix accessibility. From
Read moreHow to disconnect third-party apps from your Google account
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’ve got an active Google account — or especially if you’ve got one you haven’t used in a while — you’ve probably got more apps and services hooked up to your account than you realize. There are all those places where you’ve
Read morePlaneteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund
Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and Patch under her belt. Today, she announced Planeteer Capital, focusing on startups that want to work on challenges related to climate change. The firm won’t comment how big the fund will be, but suggests
Read moreCrypto startup Pillow, backed by Accel and Quona, to discontinue all services
Singapore-headquartered Pillow plans to discontinue all its services and app in the coming weeks, it warned customers Friday, citing regulatory uncertainty that has claimed countless other crypto startups in recent quarters. Pillow allowed customers to invest in Bitcoin, stablecoins and altcoins, and promised returns of up to 18% — a
Read moreDemystifying SQL Query Execution: Scan Types, IOs, Indexing
Photo by AltumCode on UnsplashWith increasingly stronger hardware, relational databases nowadays are usually stupid fast, even when drudging through millions of records, which might make one think that knowing the fine art of SQL Tuning is no longer needed. However, if you are building any non-trivial application with large data sets,
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