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From PC Giant To AI Innovator: It’s Time To Refresh Your Perception Of Lenovo

From PC Giant To AI Innovator: It’s Time To Refresh Your Perception Of Lenovo

Lenovo was first established in 1984 with only 11 entrepreneurs. Now hitting its 40-year anniversary, Lenovo has become a multinational corporation with $62 billion in revenue and 77,000 employees worldwide, ranking at 217 in the Fortune Global 500. In 2014, Lenovo began diversifying its business by acquiring Motorola Mobility and IBM’s x86 server division. Despite these significant expansions, many enterprise decision-makers around the world still primarily view Lenovo as the leading consumer PC manufacturer. Last week, I attended Lenovo’s first APAC analyst briefing in Shanghai. Over two days of insightful sessions, I observed how Lenovo’s strategic investments in AI-powered solutions…
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The Morning After: Condé Nast is the latest media company to accuse AI search engine Perplexity of plagiarism

The Morning After: Condé Nast is the latest media company to accuse AI search engine Perplexity of plagiarism

Condé Nast, the media giant that owns The New Yorker, Vogue and Wired, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to AI-powered search startup Perplexity, according to The Information. The letter, sent on Monday, demanded Perplexity stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its AI-generated responses and accused the startup of plagiarism. It comes a month after Forbes took similar action.Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch has warned “many” media companies could face financial ruin in the time it would take for litigation against generative AI companies to conclude. Lynch has called upon Congress to take “immediate action.”— Mat SmithThe biggest stories…
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How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd Raft Library (2)

How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd Raft Library (2)

This is the second article in the series "How to Build Your Own Distributed KV Storage System Using the etcd raft Library" - raftexample Log Compaction and Snapshot. Introduction In the first article, we learned and became familiar with the structure of raftexample and the processing flow of a write request. In this article, we will interpret the log compaction and snapshot handling logic in raftexample. Log Compaction and Snapshot The Raft log continuously grows as the cluster operates normally and processes client requests. In practical applications, we need a mechanism to limit the unlimited growth of the log to…
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The best foldable phones for 2024

The best foldable phones for 2024

Folding smartphones have come a long way since the original Samsung Galaxy Fold came out in 2019. They’re smaller, more durable and, even if they aren’t exactly the most budget-friendly phones, they’re more affordable now, too. Whereas you may not have considered a foldable phone as your daily driver five years ago, they’re much more viable options today — and you have many more to choose from. If you’ve been toying with the idea of switching to a folding phone, or you’re ready to upgrade the foldable you already have, we at Engadget can help with your decision-making process. We've…
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Defining tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery

Defining tasks, brokers, workers, and backends in Celery

Celery can be daunting to learn. While its documentation is comprehensive, it has a tendency to skip the basics. This post will define four of the main concepts in Celery, discuss the relationship between Celery and Kombu, and use a few code examples to illustrate how Celery might be useful in real applications. The examples will use the Django web framework and its @shared_task decorator, but the concepts are also applicable to Flask, FastAPI, and others. Tasks, Brokers, Workers, and Backends You'll be hard pressed to find a place on the current Celery documentation that clearly spells out what it…
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Warner Bros. has bought the developer behind its MultiVersus brawler

Warner Bros. has bought the developer behind its MultiVersus brawler

Warner Bros. of Player First Games, the developer behind the popular . This makes a whole lot of sense as the hit Smash Bros-esque brawler from WB properties. The game includes characters like Batman, Bugs Bunny, Agent Smith from The Matrix and, of course, both Rick and Morty.It doesn’t look like much will change with regard to the day-to-day workings of Player First Games. Co-founders Tony Huynh and Chris White will still lead the company, though the pair will report to Carlos Barbosa, Vice President and Studio Head of Warner Bros. Games.Huynh says the team is excited about the acquisition…
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Implementing the Cached Repository Pattern in C#

Implementing the Cached Repository Pattern in C#

Cached Repository in C#: An Introductory Article Using the Decorator Pattern and Entity Framework Core Introduction to the Concept of a Cached Repository A cached repository is a design pattern aimed at enhancing application performance by storing data in a fast-access memory area known as a cache. This reduces the number of database accesses, thereby improving response times and the application's scalability. A repository abstracts data access and provides uniform interfaces for CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete). Combining these concepts offers a powerful method for optimizing data access patterns in modern applications. Importance and Benefits of Using Cached Repositories…
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Google rows back: third-party cookies won’t go away after all in Chrome – gHacks Tech News

Google rows back: third-party cookies won’t go away after all in Chrome – gHacks Tech News

Google announced "a new path" for its Privacy Sandbox initiative for the Web. The company's plan was to eliminate third-party cookies on the Internet and replace them with new technology that it built-into its Chrome web browser. Third-party cookies may be saved by resources that are loaded on websites. If you visit Site A, that loads elements from Sites B and C, then B and C may save cookies on the user's devices that are third-party. The main idea behind third-party cookies is not a bad one, but it has been used and abused in the past. One specific problem…
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The best smartwatches for 2024

The best smartwatches for 2024

The best smartwatches offer a whole host of features like the ability to make and take calls, pay for your groceries, track your health and fitness and connect you to useful apps like Spotify. Some even have built-in GPS so you can untether yourself from your smartphone while working out. But with so many smartwatches to choose from, it can be hard to find the best watch for your needs. There are lots of factors to consider, like durability, long battery life and other specs that we’ll go into more detail below. What’s important, however, is that you choose the…
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Goodbye Webflow, Hello Our Shiny New Website

Goodbye Webflow, Hello Our Shiny New Website

“That's it! I'm done with Webflow! It's been nothing but a nightmare. We're moving to a headless CMS, and we're doing it now. No more wasting time!”... is what could have easily been heard about two months ago in our office, after (yet again) discussing whether to make a move to a headless CMS for our company website or not. In reality the discussion was much longer and much more boring to sum up here. But what is true, is that for the past few months we have been working hard to revamp our website after growing frustrated with Webflow,…
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