Cruise inches into Waymo’s territory in the Phoenix area
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has expanded its robotaxi radius in the Phoenix area by 20x as it seeks to compete with Alphabet-owned Waymo in its home court. Cruise soft-launched its robotaxi service in Chandler, a city southeast of Phoenix, in December 2022. The expanded arena will now
Read MoreMedia groups urge the Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s news blocking
The CBC, News Media Canada, and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters have filed an application with the Competition Bureau asking it to investigate Meta’s alleged anti-competitive conduct. This comes after Meta announced that it has started the process of ending news availability in Canada in response to the passage of
Read MoreModern Software Engineering — Part 5: Continuous Evolution
“If you don’t evolve, you will die. “- Marcus LemonisContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreChris’ Corner: Useful HTML and CSS Patterns
The <table> is one of the grand enemies of responsive design. They don’t wrap (that wouldn’t make much sense) so they can “blow out” the width of a mobile device pretty easily. The overflow property also doesn’t work on them. So you gotta find a way, and it really depends
Read MoreCollaboration aims to boost cancer research and develop innovation economy in Ontario
The University of Toronto’s Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) has joined forces with FACIT, a commercialization venture firm, in a move to bring AI-powered cancer research to the forefront while fostering economic development in Ontario. The partnership between T-CAIREM and FACIT is grounded in
Read MoreNvidia’s AI Workbench brings model fine-tuning to workstations
Timed to coincide with SIGGRAPH, the annual AI academic conference, Nvidia this morning announced a new platform designed to let users create, test and customize generative AI models on a PC or workstation before scaling them to a data center and public cloud. Dubbed AI Workbench, the service can be
Read MoreThe Role of a System Architect
Unraveling growth challenges: Could a system architect be the solution?Serverless Architecture from Classic Programmer PaintingsMost startups that go through hyper-growth tend to face the inevitable Bottlenecks of Scaleups, as masterfully described by ThoughtWorks.Having navigated the hyper-growth journey myself, I’ve witnessed firsthand how these technical bottlenecks can impede business progress, causing
Read MoreThe Volvo EX30’s interior is the IKEA take on Tesla’s playbook
Comparisons will inevitably be drawn between the Tesla Model 3’s sparse interior and that of the new Volvo EX30. But Volvo’s electric crossover goes big on the minimalist, space-maximizing Scandinavian charm you’d find in an IKEA store, not just ruthless cost-cutting for its own sake. Make no mistake, however: there’s
Read MoreRedis Internals: Redis Processes a Command
Dictionary structure, key eviction, hash table resize and rehash, and command executionPhoto by Ryland Dean on UnsplashBy now, I’ve already considered how Redis server starts up, how clients connect to it, and how Redis reads their commands and writes responses — both in a single-threaded and I/O threaded mode. Finally, I’ve made my
Read MoreNo, it’s never too early to make sure a founder is telling the truth
In the latest example of a startup getting caught while taking Silicon Valley’s “fake it until you make it” ethos far beyond the realm of ethics, events planning app IRL was recently sued by its own investor, SoftBank, after an investigation revealed that 95% of the app’s users were fake.
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