Unicorn social app IRL to shut down after admitting 95% of its users were fake
Ironically, the social app IRL‘s users do not exist in real life. An internal investigation by IRL’s board of directors found that 95% of the app’s reported 20 million users were “automated or from bots,” The Information first reported. So, after raising more than $200 million in venture capital, IRL
Read MoreTelegram is adding Stories next month
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced today that the messaging app is adding Stories in early July. Durov says users have been asking for the feature for years, noting that more than half of all feature requests that Telegram receives are related to Stories. The company was initially against adding Stories
Read MoreCoinbase execs: As global crypto policy grows, US has urgent need for legislation
Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchanges globally, has been around for 10 years. And while the company has grown its offerings, products and services, its policy talking points haven’t changed dramatically, Kara Calvert, head of U.S. policy at Coinbase told TechCrunch+. But what has changed, she said, is the
Read MoreEnums: Rust Objects of Unusual Size
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Read MoreFigma’s Magic Power for Developers
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Read MoreNeRF at CVPR23: Rendering Performance
Since the release of NeRF at ECCV 2020, there’s been more and more NeRF papers published each year. Let’s have a look at two papers about rendering performancePhoto by Marko Blažević on UnsplashIn this article, I’ll detail two NeRF articles dealing with Rendering Performance that caught my attention during the CVPR
Read MoreData Formats for Row-Oriented Processing
Photo by Christopher Gower on UnsplashThe combination of pandas and parquet is the backbone of many data pipelines. However, it can, at times, be a badly performing solution. I would like to show one such case here.IntroductionPandas and parquet are both primarily column-oriented/analytical tools. They shine the most when your pipeline is,
Read MoreRussian hacking device on track to make $80 million worth of sales
You may have stumbled across the Flipper Zero hacking device that’s been doing the rounds. The Russia-based company claims it is on track to sell $80 million worth of ’em this year after selling almost $5 million worth as Kickstarter preorders — and it claims it sold $25 million worth
Read MoreDon’t wait to identify your startup’s ideal customer personas
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Read MoreCanadians very trusting of generative AI despite threats to consumer safety and security: Capgemini
Six months ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT captured the interests of experts and amateurs globally for its endless, growing capabilities but also for its many peculiar faux pas. Canadians, however, remain highly enthusiastic about the host of generative AI tools seeing the light of day at a breathtaking pace. A new Capgemini
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