Chris’ Corner: Hot New Web Features
Yuri Mikhin and Travis Turner over at Evil Martians implore us: Don’t wait, let’s use the browser Contact Picker API now. As I write, it’s only available essentially on Chrome for Android. But the spec exists and iOS also has an experimental flag for it. I’m an iOS guy so I
Read MoreTypeScript With Go and Rust Errors? No Try/Catch? Heresy
Images of Rust, TypeScript, and Go logos combined | image by authorSo, let’s start with a little backstory about me. I am a software developer with around ten years of experience, initially working with PHP and then gradually transitioning to JavaScript.I started using TypeScript somewhere around five years ago, and since
Read MoreInstagram is launching creator subscriptions in Australia, Canada, the UK and more
Meta announced today that it’s rolling out Instagram subscriptions to all eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom over the next few weeks. The expansion comes as Meta first launched Instagram subscriptions in the United States in January 2022. Instagram subscriptions
Read More4 Ways to Build an AI Agent
Photo by Jason Abdilla on UnsplashIf we think back to the primary difference between synthetic intelligence and artificial intelligence, AI agents are purpose built. Meaning, we engineer AI to address problems narrow in scope. Yet, not all problems are the same type. This is why we have 4 ways to build
Read MoreHow Not to Take Things Personally At Work
Instead of becoming defensive and wasting productive time trying to prove our innocence, we can spend that time solving problemsContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreSpyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones
A phone surveillance app called Spyhide is stealthily collecting private phone data from tens of thousands of Android devices around the world, new data shows. Spyhide is a widely-used stalkerware (or spouseware) app that is planted on a victim’s phone, often by someone with knowledge of their passcode. The app
Read MoreHow I Built an Autonomous AI Agent for Online Research
GPT Researcher: the future of comprehensive online researchContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read MoreSoftBank and Symbotic team to offer automated warehouses as a service
When it comes to retail, it’s Amazon versus the world. That’s been true for a long time and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. Plenty of factors have contributed to the company’s position as a seemingly unstoppable juggernaut. Among them is Amazon’s canny decision to buy and
Read MoreSony WF-1000XM5 earbuds review
I have two stock answers whenever someone asks me which earbuds to buy. The first answers the question with another question: Who made your phone? Like flagship smartphones, fully wireless earbuds are pretty good across the board — and the category managed to get there in record time. Headphones often
Read MoreTime for tech’s report card
A lot of the world is busy digesting Twitter being rebranded to “X,” but more serious things are happening in the world of tech: Worldcoin is here! I kid. What actually matters today is that we are embarking on another earnings cycle, which means we can study tech’s largest and
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