Boost Your Swift Loop Performance By 87%
A simple trick to supercharge your loops using “loop unrolling”Photo by Fernando Rodrigues on UnsplashToday’s devices are incredibly powerful, often leading us to overlook the importance of efficiency and optimizations. It’s easy to think, why bother with efficiency when we have high-performance hardware like the monster M2 SoC in our Macs
Read moreGnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong
The world of cryptocurrency has often been criticized for being exclusive, catering primarily to speculators and crypto-savvy individuals. Despite this, many advocates believe that the underlying decentralized technology has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Gnosis, a well-regarded blockchain project in the developer community, is working to demonstrate
Read moreIntel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million
Bay Area-based robotics firm Figure this week announced that its humanoid officially took its first steps — a milestone it hit a few days shy of of the company’s first anniversary. Figure has made a good deal of progress in a short period, due in no small part to founder and
Read moreDocWorker: GPT Applied to Documents
An open-source prototype application for using GPT functions on entire documentsPhoto by Gianluca Cinnante on UnsplashIntroductionThe user interface of ChatGPT is a clever and compelling innovation that has opened access to using Generative Pre-training Transformer (GPT) technology for many people. However, the interface does have limitations. For example, a friend of
Read moreAdopting Efficient Networking Practices in iOS Apps
Methodologies to improve network efficiencyPhoto by Andrew Neel on UnsplashMost apps rely on networking to communicate with a server to send and receive chunks of data.While it’s easy to spin up a URLSession to retrieve data from a server and display it on the screen, it’s essential to consider how efficiently your
Read moreLee Fixel’s Addition leads $6M seed round in Egyptian fintech Flash
Driving financial inclusion through digital payment methods is among the top priorities for the governments of Africa’s biggest tech ecosystems where cash is still king. Several initiatives launched by these governments have increased the number of banked citizens in their respective countries. In Egypt, for instance, platforms like Fawry and
Read moreTesla announces first Cybertruck build ahead of Q2 earnings
Tesla over the weekend said its first much anticipated Cybertruck came off the electric vehicle maker’s production line in Texas. The debut of the long-delayed, futuristic-looking pickup truck comes in the lead up to Tesla’s second quarter 2023 earnings call. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced the Cybertruck in 2019,
Read moreInstagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter
Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in
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