Startups aren’t (just) a young person’s game
There’s a pervasive myth in Silicon Valley: Startups are only founded by a bunch of 20-year-olds who recently dropped out of college. The Social Network, the Pirates of Silicon Valley, the various Steve Jobs biopics, and even the Silicon Valley TV show – wherever you look, the popular narrative is
Read moreFAA launches new committee to explore regulations on commercial human spaceflight
The Federal Aviation Administration is launching a new initiative exploring possible regulations on commercial human spaceflight, a first for a nascent industry that is rapidly increasing the number of humans that visit space. The new rulemaking committee will “help the FAA plan, conceive, and implement—when the time is right—a well-informed,
Read moreIt’s not just Netflix’s $900K AI jobs, it’s the hypocrisy
The discovery of an AI product manager role at Netflix with a pay ceiling of $900,000 sent critics of the company and entertainment industry wild yesterday. That isn’t the only such listing, and likely not even the most lucrative. No one should be surprised that one of the biggest tech
Read moreCruise is bringing its self-driving cars to Nashville
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said Thursday it will expand its robotaxi service to Nashville as the GM subsidiary ramps up its commercial operations The company’s self-driving vehicles will arrive on Nashville streets this week with a robotaxi service to follow. The announcement is the latest example of Cruise’s aggressive push
Read moreEvery Japanese prefecture shrinking
It’s well known that the population of Japan has been decreasing for years, and so I was a little puzzled by a recent headline saying that Japan’s population has dropped in every one of its 47 prefectures. Although the national population is in decline, until now not all of the
Read moreHow To Eliminate Boilerplate Code With PHP 8.1
Using the later versions of PHP can massively reduce the amount of boilerplate code in your applicationPhoto by Ben Griffiths on UnsplashIf you have an application of any appreciable size, you will have used DTO (Data Transfer Object) classes to shuttle data around your application.One of the main properties of a
Read moreExtract iMessage Data For Analytics and Conversational AI projects
Tens of thousands of real-world messages: cleaned and prepared using Python for all your creative ideasAI-generated art from MidjourneyIntroductionI like to experiment with APIs and build neat stuff. I have a lot of ideas for projects relating to iMessage data. Unfortunately, accessing this data is not well documented, the database schema
Read moreAndroid will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you
Google today will begin to roll out a new safety feature, unknown tracker alerts, first announced at its developer event Google I/O this spring. The feature will allow Android users to be alerted automatically if an unknown Bluetooth device is traveling with them — a sign that could point to
Read morePet telehealth company Airvet closes on $18.2M to embark on enterprise focus
Pet ownership exploded during the global pandemic, and veterinarians are still struggling to keep up with demand. In fact, a Mars Veterinary Health report from 2022 highlighted a need for more than 41,000 vets to enter the industry over the next decade in order to meet demand. Not enough people
Read moreGame Development in Rust: Making a Strategy Game (Part 3 — Adding Different Unit Types)
Game Development in Rust: Making a Strategy Game (Part 3 — Adding Different Unit Types)In Part 2, we added our first unit and repurposed our codebase enough to keep adding more featuresPhoto by orva studio on UnsplashThis article is a direct continuation of the previous one. We will add a couple of different units for
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