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19 Jul

Google is turning off its goo.gl shortener links next year

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Starting on August 23 this year, when someone clicks on a goo.gl link, it could first take them to a page with a warning that says the link "will no longer work in the near future" before taking them to the website they want to visit. Google shut down its goo.gl URL shortening service way back in 2018 and stopped users from being able to create new links. Now, the company has announced that it will stop supporting all existing goo.gl links altogether: The URLs will return a "404 page not found" result by August 25, 2025.Google is giving developers…

19 Jul

Apple R1 Opens New Avenues in Spatial Computing

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The Apple Vision Pro headset represents a new milestone in computing. The concept of spatial computing is a new paradigm and the first new class of product introduced by Apple since the iPhone in 2007. Source link lol

19 Jul

Flutter vs. React Native

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Flutter vs. React Native: A Comprehensive 2024 Comparison When deciding on a framework for cross-platform mobile app development, it's essential to consider multiple factors. This detailed comparison between Flutter and React Native covers various aspects, including learning curve, ease of deployment, scalability, performance, popularity, community support, libraries, and more. By the end of this article, you'll have a clearer understanding of which framework might be best suited for your needs. 1. Learning Curve Flutter:Flutter uses Dart, a language designed by Google that's relatively easy to learn, especially for those with experience in object-oriented programming. Dart's syntax is straightforward, making it…

19 Jul

The Morning After: The age of the retro CD player is here

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The mining of technology nostalgia is unrelenting. Earlier this week, we had an unofficial return of the iPod, not to mention Tamagotchis and now Discman. Well, not an actual Discman, which is a Sony brand, but the portable CD player is back.Audiophile brand FiiO has launched the DM13, a portable CD player with modern touches, like high-fidelity wireless and a built-in battery. No more AAs! The CD Player will go on sale in September for $179 (£179 in the UK). It begins shipping only in a silver finish, but FiiO says red, blue, titanium and black variants will arrive later…

19 Jul

Time Series in Data Science: Analysis of Bitcoin and Ethereum

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Time series play a crucial role in Data Science, especially when analyzing financial data. The price variations of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum offer an excellent opportunity to explore time series. In this article, we will analyze the price variations of Bitcoin and Ethereum in euros, using datasets ranging from 2012 to 2019 for Bitcoin and from 2015 to 2019 for Ethereum. We will also illustrate the use of some basic time series techniques with concrete examples and practical recommendations. Importing Libraries and Loading DataBefore diving into the analysis, we need to import the necessary libraries and load the datasets.…

19 Jul

Google DeepMind at ICML 2024

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Research Published 19 July 2024 Exploring AGI, the challenges of scaling and the future of multimodal generative AINext week the artificial intelligence (AI) community will come together for the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Running from July 21-27 in Vienna, Austria, the conference is an international platform for showcasing the latest advances, exchanging ideas and shaping the future of AI research.This year, teams from across Google DeepMind will present more than 80 research papers. At our booth, we’ll also showcase our multimodal on-device model, Gemini Nano, our new family of AI models for education called LearnLM and we’ll…

19 Jul

Faulty cybersecurity update takes out banks, airlines and other major companies worldwide

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A massive Microsoft Windows BSOD (blue screen of death) outage has impacted multiple companies worldwide including airlines, broadcasters and others. The problem was a caused by a faulty update from security giant CrowdStrike that forced PCs and servers into an unrecoverable boot loop. The change has since been rolled back, but many machines are still affected."We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions," CrowdStrike wrote in a pinned Reddit post. "[We have] identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes." The company went on to describe a workaround, which involves…

19 Jul

vivo Migrated from GlusterFS to a Distributed File System for AI Training

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vivo is a multinational technology company that designs and develops smartphones, smartphone accessories, software and online services. We serve 400 million+ users in 60+ countries and regions. As a key module of vivo AI computing platform, VTraining is a general training platform built on Kubernetes clusters. It supports large-scale distributed training across multiple frameworks and is equipped with petabyte-scale distributed storage. Currently, VTraining serves 700+ users, covering mission-critical applications such as recommendations, speech, vision, NLP, and imaging. The platform boasts a GPU compute power of 300 PFLOPS, a cluster with 3,000+ nodes, and 5+ PB of storage data. In this…

19 Jul

Creating a Smooth Transitioning Dialog Component in React: My Journey

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I've been working on a project to create a smooth transitioning dialog component in React, and I want to share my journey through the process, highlighting key steps and challenges encountered along the way. Part 1: Setting the Foundation In the first part of the series, I laid the groundwork by setting up the component structure. I created a context to manage the state and developed the main dialog component with its header, body, footer, and container. My primary goal was to ensure that the dialog could support minimisation and expansion while being adaptable to content changes. This foundation was…

19 Jul

Google confirms the Pixel 9 Pro Fold with a teaser video

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Google has confirmed in a teaser video that its upcoming line of smartphones includes a new foldable model. The company called the Pixel 9 Pro Fold a "foldable phone built for the Gemini era" in its promo tweet, and it even focused on its gen AI chatbot in the video. Similar to the non-foldable Pixel 9 Pro, this model also has a prominent camera bump. Its lenses are arranged vertically near one side of the phone, so the camera bump is mostly there and doesn't take up the whole width of the folded device.While Google has yet to formally unveil…