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 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 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
Read moreTesla’s ‘ultra hardcore’ work culture — as told by its employees
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Ever wonder what it’s like to work at Tesla, the biggest, most exciting car company in the world? Elon Musk is known for setting lofty goals and expecting nothing short of perfection from his workers. He often urges his employees to go “super
Read moreNetflix’s ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ anime debuts teaser trailer and premiere date
Netflix released the official teaser trailer for the highly anticipated anime series “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” based on the popular “Scott Pilgrim” comic book series. “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off” premieres all eight episodes on November 17. For those unaware of the nearly 20-year-old comic book series, “Scott Pilgrim” was written
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