Logitech buys editing console maker Loupedeck
One day after competitor Corsair announced that it acquired mechanical keyboard maker Drop, Logitech has revealed a big purchase of its own. The accessory giant just bought Loupedeck, a Helsinki-based manufacturer of consoles for creative pros. Details of the transaction have not been disclosed, but the deal comes as Logitech
Read MoreAO3 was offline a week ago, but there’s still a fandom brewing in the Downdetector comments
It was an internet nerd’s worst nightmare. On July 10, Archive of Our Own (AO3), a beloved, non-profit fan fiction platform, was plagued by DDoS attacks, rendering it inaccessible for over a day. It makes sense that this community would turn to Downdetector, a website where users crowdsource reports of
Read MoreSome First Thoughts on Next 13
I really wanted to love Next 13.Photo by Viswanath V Pai on UnsplashI was stoked when I started hearing about Next 13 a couple of months ago. I had some time on my hands, so I thought I’d do an example project to kick the tires. The big thing that had me
Read MoreCameo announces more layoffs as celebrity greeting market shrinks
Cameo, a website for ordering video greetings from celebrities, is downsizing again. The Chicago startup, which was valued at more than $1 billion in 2021, intends to lay off 80 workers. Reached by TechCrunch, CEO Steven Galanis confirmed that Cameo decided to “reduce the size of our team,” but the
Read MoreCoffee Briefing Jul. 18 – Musk aims to get a grip on reality using AI; Scotiabank and Xero join forces to support Canada’s small businesses; Shutterstock offers enterprise indemnification for AI image creation; and more
Coffee Briefings are timely deliveries of the latest ITWC headlines, interviews, and podcasts. Today’s Coffee Briefing is delivered by IT World Canada’s editorial team! Missed last week’s Coffee Briefing? We’ve got you covered. Musk aims to get a grip on reality using AI Co-founder of SpaceX and current chief
Read MoreAs growth becomes more elusive, a new set of software product benchmarks emerges
Even the fastest-growing software startups aren’t expanding as fast as they used to. Of course, this is partly by choice; you have to trade off growth if you want profitability, and vice versa. The yardstick for measuring startup performance has changed over the past year, but changing startup performance standards
Read MoreA Solidity Symphony: Testing Events With Foundry
Image generated with Hotpot.aiIn the blockchain world, transaction execution and on-chain persistent storage modifications incur a fundamentally important cost. Observing emitted events is one way to circumvent the costs of on-chain interactions for data retrieval. Solidity events allow for a generally free and persistent way of capturing on-chain activities. Given
Read MoreCode Style Matters in a Take-Home Interview
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Read MoreEstablishing the Standards of a Real-World Kotlin Project
Kotlin isn’t JavaPhoto by Louis Tsai on UnsplashKotlin is a very nice programming language that is very easy to learn for teams that already have experience working with Java and add many interesting features that can make the development of your project easier and safer. Indeed, in my personal opinion, Kotlin feels
Read MoreFiltering on how words are being used
Yesterday I wrote about how you could use the spaCy Python library to find proper nouns in a document. Now suppose you want to refine this and find proper nouns that are the subjects of sentences or proper nouns that are direct objects. This post was motivated by a project
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