First sneak peek at the judges for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
The Startup Battlefield pitch competition is the crown jewel of Disrupt, and we can’t wait to see which of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies will be selected to pitch to panels of top-tier VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. It’s always epic, and every contender
Read moreGoogle starts the GA rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs to all Chrome users
Google continues the rollout of its Privacy Sandbox APIs — its replacement for tracking cookies for the online advertising industry. Today, right on schedule and in time for the launch of Chrome 115 into the stable release channel, Google announced that it will now start enabling the relevance and measurement
Read moreYouTube Premium individual plan now costs $2 more for all subscribers in the US
Just like many other streaming services, YouTube has increased the prices of its Premium plan for individuals in the U.S. from $11.99 per month to $13.99 per month. The price hike follows last year’s price bump in family plans in many countries. In the U.S. the family plan tariff went
Read moreA Crash Course in Testing Next.js Projects
Jest, Cypress, and StorybooksTesting more than just your patienceAudienceThis article is aimed at engineers with a solid understanding of React, Next.js, and Typescript. An excellent start would be my pieces linked in the previous sentence.The goal is to move from writing well-constructed front-end code to writing well-constructed front-end code we know
Read moreTesla’s Cybertruck didn’t always look so cyberpunk
The photo shared by Isaacson showing concept images of the Cybertruck, and the pop culture that inspired them. Click to see full-sized image. | Image: Walter Isaacson Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson has shared a photograph of the Tesla CEO during an early meeting about the Cybertruck that sheds interesting
Read moreWhat happened when Nous.co hooked-up Generative AI to its users’ household bills
With the cost of living ever more painful, and Generative AI supposedly gunning for your job, at least — for the moment — it might be here to save you some money on your household bills. UK-based cost-of-living start-up Nous.co has now launched an OpenAI-powered assistant (combined with its own
Read moreTikTok expands research API to Europe and launches ads transparency library
TikTok has finally launched an ads transparency library — starting with data on ads and other commercial content running in Europe but with plans to expand that. Also today it’s announced expanded access to its research API to Europe. Both moves look intended to help the company comply with incoming
Read moreHow Does Kubernetes Decide Where to Place Pods?
Where, oh where, should I place this Pod?Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreGushwork.ai raises $2M, led by Lightspeed, to outsource business tasks to workforces trained in AI
Gushwork.ai, a global platform that aims to advance business process outsourcing (BPO) using AI and human expertise, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Lightspeed. B Capital, Sparrow Capital, Seaborne Capital and Beenext also participated in backing the startup that launched in April this year. In
Read moreDetermining Time Complexity of Algorithms Experimentally
Quality assurance is a goal that should be paramount for every professional software engineer. One of the components of this assurance is to make computer programs run smoothly and in acceptable latencies, i.e., write programs with low time complexities.One widely known way of expressing the theoretical behavior of time or
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