Kaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC
Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport — the last four of them as the outfit’s vice president of North America — is announcing that she has joined the world of VC as the newest partner at the venture firm Eclipse. On
Read moreIf the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is?
This isn’t a facetious question; it’s an unanswered one. What, if anything, is an ethical way to use current generative AI in a major, public-facing work of art? This quandary emerges from the furore regarding Marvel Studios’ use of AI to create the main title sequence of its latest show,
Read moreFidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform, the firm shared on Tuesday. But what has made this launch catch a lot of attention? Its founding investors, which include major traditional
Read moreLife after logistics
You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working through the last few weekends, and today I’ve been rewarded with a throbbing migraine. Isn’t the human body magical? Either way,
Read moreAndreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital
Read moreTikTok’s COO is leaving the company
TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. According to LinkedIn, Pappas first joined TikTok parent company
Read moreHow to use Angular Signals
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Read moreMore Than Just Stubs
Creating your stateful sandbox with WireMockPhoto by Markus Spiske on UnsplashWiremock is a great tool to test your application against a real web service with predefined stubs. It allows us to write integration tests that do not stop at a rest client mock but do network communication, simulating different responses with limited effort.But
Read moreDebugging Frontend Applications With React Profiler
Photo by Joshua Aragon on UnsplashUsually, writing console.log or custom code to trace the root of bugs in React applications can be sufficient. However, when one works with a more extensive unfamiliar codebase, even tiny bugs can become challenging to tackle.In this article, I would like to share my experience working with
Read moreRobots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube
Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming — they’ll need to adapt and learn. What’s become clear the more I read and speak with experts is true
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