X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app’s Explore section. According to an announcement and screenshots posted by the X Engineering team on Friday, X’s Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the “For You” tab in … [Read more...]
Django part: 1
Starting with just short introduction of what is Django and framework is :Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.One of Django's key strengths is its built-in features, which facilitate various aspects of web development, including URL routing, template engine, object-relational mapping (ORM) A framework is a pre-built structure or … [Read more...]
OpenAI might be working on a better, smarter Google competitor, powered by ChatGPT
With AI advancing at a rapid pace, companies are scrambling to find the best ways to deploy the new technology and undercut their competition. Now, soon after OpenAI declared it's making its own AI hardware, it seems the company is trying to see if it can knock Google down a spot or two. An eagle-eyed user spotted OpenAI create an SSL certificate for a search-based URL, which hints that the … [Read more...]
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8,000 emulator-related DMCA takedowns
Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code from the Yuzu Switch emulator, which the Zelda maker previously described as enabling “piracy at a colossal scale.” The sweeping takedown comes two months after Yuzu’s creators quickly settled a lawsuit with Nintendo and its notoriously trigger-happy legal team for $2.4 … [Read more...]
More details emerge about Apple’s plans for AI in iOS 18
a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Illustration: The VergeApple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear that AI features are coming soon, and a new report from AppleInsider offers more … [Read more...]
Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump
It’s been almost one year since Match Group announced the launch of Archer, the online dating giant’s first app for gay, bi, and queer men. Since rolling out to New York last June, Archer has been downloaded more than 685,000 times, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Archer completed its U.S. rollout this past October. With Match and other online dating companies … [Read more...]
EQT to Acquire WSO2
WSO2, the leader in digital transformation technology, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by EQT. “We are thrilled to partner with EQT as we embark on the next phase of WSO2’s journey,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO and Founder of WSO2. “With EQT’s support and expertise, we are well-positioned to accelerate our innovation agenda, expand our global … [Read more...]
DoorDash won’t let you tip NYC drivers without the app
a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray">Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeLast week, I placed a big dinner order for myself and several friends through DoorDash. There was no … [Read more...]
Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions?
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Musk’s 10-month-old baby, xAI, is closing in on a whoppin’ $6 billion funding round. The social network X, née Twitter — also part of Elon’s tech family — is already a shareholder. The deal was initially supposed to raise just $3 billion, but … [Read more...]
5 things the Snapdragon X Elite needs to beat Apple Silicon
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC is just around the corner, and it aims to be a renaissance of sorts for Windows on Arm. With that comes a promise of beating Apple's M3 chipsets in its Macbooks, though there's more to a chipset than the raw power that it's capable of. There are a ton of things that Qualcomm needs to get right in order to best Apple, and these are five of the most important … [Read more...]
Three things we learned about Apple’s AI plans from its earnings
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t give much away about the company’s AI plans on Thursday’s Q2 earnings call with investors, but he did confirm a few tidbits about how the tech giant plans to move forward with artificial intelligence. Notably, his comments suggested that despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn’t planning to spin up too many new data centers … [Read more...]
Helldivers 2 PC players suddenly have to link to a PSN account and they're not being chill about it
Linking to a random third-party account when you just want to play a video game you paid for is truly annoying and, honestly, keeps me from even launching certain games by certain publishers who shall remain nameless. Helldivers 2 players are experiencing this frustration right now, as the PC version of the massively popular third-person shooter will soon require a link to a PlayStation … [Read more...]
Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims
Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost EV meant for the masses, and the Alaska, Fisker’s entry into the red-hot pickup truck market. In the weeks that followed, Fisker stopped paying the engineering firm that helped develop those vehicles, according to a … [Read more...]
Rust adds diagnostic attribute namespace for compiler messages
Rust 1.78, just released as the latest version of the popular, memory-safe programming language, adds backing for a #[diagnostic] attribute namespace to influence compiler messages.These messages are treated as hints that the compiler is not required to use, the Rust team said. Also it is not an error to provide a diagnostic that the compiler does not recognize. The feature is designed to allow … [Read more...]
Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM
Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most notably, the social network is introducing a new “Reveal” feature that lets you post a hidden Story for your followers to uncover by sending you a DM. Instagram is also launching other features that let you share your favorite … [Read more...]
5 Free Tools to Boost Developer Productivity
Hey there, devs! Are you tired of feeling like you're not getting enough done in a day? Do you find yourself switching between apps and tools, trying to stay organized and focused? Well, worry no more! We've got you covered with these 5 free tools that'll help you stay productive and get more done in less time.Notion is like the Swiss Army knife of productivity tools. It's an all-in-one workspace … [Read more...]
Sprinklr lays off more than 100 employees
Sprinklr, a U.S. firm offering a customer experience management platform to global brands, has laid off about 3% of its workforce — around 116 people — to realign its customer operations team, the company confirmed to TechCrunch in a statement. The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year. The New York-headquartered company, which counts … [Read more...]
Backend Authentication: The Role of Access and Refresh Tokens
OAuth 2.0 is the industry standard for delivering sensitive authorization-related information across the web, typically in the form of a JSON Web Token(JWT).It uses two tokens—Access Token and Refresh Token. These tokens help securely manage access to protected resources without users needing to keep logging in repeatedly. Let's now delve deep and understand what and why these tokens are … [Read more...]
Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
This year already proved that startups are willing to go public in a less-than-ideal market — and get rewarded for it, too. But bankers, lawyers and investors said the recent IPO successes aren’t enough to foster more than a dozen tech IPOs this year. “I don’t think we will have the floodgates open like I might have thought,” Greg Martin, co-founder and managing director at Rainmaker Securities, … [Read more...]
Redfall’s two DLC heroes are still MIA a year later
As Microsoft tries to beef up its in-house Xbox studios, it may want to be more careful about leaving a trail of broken promises when things don’t go as planned. A year after the hyped vampire shooter Redfall landed with a thud, a Kotaku report highlights how players are still waiting for the advertised post-launch DLC they already paid for.Redfall’s Bite Back Edition is a $100 collector’s variant … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 3567
- Next Page »