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A new AI winter is coming?
Though LLMs had a lot of promise, this has not been demonstrated in practice. The technology is essentially a failure, and a new AI winter is coming.
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The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data
In late January 2023, almost 45 GB of source code from the Russian search giant Yandex was leaked on BreachForums by a former Yandex employee.
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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors
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Northvolt assembles first lithium-ion battery cell at Swedish gigafactory
The cell is the first to have been fully designed, developed and assembled at a gigafactory by a homegrown European battery company.
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Mortgages are a manufactured product
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of AGI
Celebrated software engineer & Keen Technologies founder John Carmack partners with Amii's Dr. Richard Sutton to bring greater focus to artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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People can read their manager's mind (2015)
People generally don't do what they're told, but what they expect to be rewarded for. Managers often say they'll reward something – perhaps they even believe it. But then they proceed to reward different things.
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No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X
When the iPhone X launched, a lot of designers were put off about the screen shape. Those complaints have mostly died down, but I haven’t…
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The illegal city of Somerville
Zoning is complicated. It’s complicated on its own, with even small towns having dozens of pages of regulations and acronyms and often-inscrutable diagrams; and it’s complicated as a policy issue, with economists and lawyers and researchers bandying about regression lines and all sorts of claims about the micro and…
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Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying. She argues that...
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Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR
CCPA impacts dev teams more than GDPR. Learn who must comply, what data is covered, and how to protect test data safely.
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Tech and Liberty
The First Amendment is not about a law, but rather a culture — specifically a culture of liberty. It is essential to tech, and in this context, Facebook is mostly right about political ads (but can…
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A New Car UI: How touch screen controls in cars should really work
A New Car UI - How touch screen controls in cars should really work.
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U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7M People, Grew 3.7M Since 2014
View the latest news, announcements, media coverage, and media resources from Upwork.
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How to start a successful freelance business as a software developer (2017)
Start your freelance business on the right foot by avoiding common mistakes that you will hold you back from victory.
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Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all…
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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday.
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How Tech Can Build
Marc Andreessen has written (another) seminal essay: It’s Time to Build. What does that mean for tech and venture capital?
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Intel Arc Pro B70 Review
How does Intel's new Arc Pro B70 32GB professional GPU stack up against the competition in media editing, rendering, AI, CAD, and BIM applications?
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What Happens When a Founder Is Fully Vested?
Let’s say you are the founder and CEO of a startup and you have now been at it for four years. The company is doing great, you’ve raised several rounds of financing, you have a product in the market that is solving a real problem, you have a bunch of customers, you have a growing […]
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Mathematica Version 12 Released
New functionality in Wolfram Language 12 and Mathematica covers: ComplexPlot3D, computation with uncertainty, polygon operations, polyhedra, Euclidean geometry, AxiomaticTheory, NBodySimulation, machine learning superfunctions, neural nets, computing with images, SpeechRecognize, AudioIdentify, natural language…
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Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
Are Product Hunt's Products still online today?
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