Cloudflareâs engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflareâs engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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This article was originally published on Built In by Eric Kleppen. Variance is a powerful statistic used in data analysis and machine learning. It is one of the four main measures of variability along with range, interquartile range (IQR) and standard deviation. Understanding variance is important because it gives you insight into the spread of your data and can be used to compare differences in sample groups or identify important... Read more âș
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Around the world, and against all scientific evidence, a segment of the population believes that Earthâs round shape is either an unproven theory or an elaborate hoax. Polls by YouGov America in 2018 and FDU in 2022 found that as many as 11% of Americans believe the Earth might be flat. While it is tempting to dismiss âflat Earthersâ as mildly amusing, we ignore their arguments at our peril. Polling... Read more âș
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I love writing code to make things: apps, websites, charts, and even music. Itâs a skill Iâve worked hard at for more than 20 years. So I must confess last weekâs news about the release of a new âAI assistantâ coding helper called GitHub Copilot gave me complicated feelings. Copilot, which spits out code to order based on âplain Englishâ descriptions, is a remarkable tool. But is it about to... Read more âș
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The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit community of open-source advocates, today announced its withdrawal from GitHub in a scathing blog post urging members and supporters to rebuke the platform once-and-for-all. Up front: The SFCâs problem with GitHub stems from accusations that Microsoft and OpenAI trained an AI system called Copilot on data that was published under an open-source license. Open-source code isnât like a donations box where you can... Read more âș
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How far would you go to save the planet? Well, thereâs a movement of activists aiming to make it impossible to own a huge, polluting 4Ă4 SUV in the worldâs urban areas. So, they are taking out SUVs and their owners, flattening one tire at a time. I spoke to a representative via email, under the condition of anonymity because of âsecurity risks.â Meet The Tyre Extinguishers Their method is... Read more âș
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Picture this. Youâre in San Francisco. Itâs late at night, and youâre driving back home. Youâre dreaming of your warm bed. But, you arrive at the intersection of Gough and Fulton Streets â and shock! Horror! Youâre forced to stop. The road, it seems, is blocked by robotaxis. So yeah, this actually happened. On Tuesday night. A Reddit user posted images of what appears to be a small fleet of... Read more âș
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This week saw a big win for SpaceX, with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granting the company authorization to use its Starlink satellite internet system on vehicles in motion â including cars, trucks, boats, and aircraft. Starlink is SpaceXâs network of Earth-orbiting satellites, providing high-speed internet to 36 countries and counting. Starlink is designed to deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely... Read more âș
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It is 15 years since Apple released whatâs arguably its flagship device: the iPhone. A decade and a half later, there are few products that have managed to reach a similar level of brand recognition. Announced to an eager audience in 2007, the iPhone has revolutionized how we communicate and even how we live day to day. Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone on January 9 2007. The large-screen revolution The... Read more âș
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Itâs no secret that Instagram is losing the social media war to TikTok. If Metaâs app is ever going to reverse this trend, it needs to come up with new and interesting features. Or so youâd think. Instead it appears that Instagram is going to continue the Facebook tradition of âIf You Canât Beat It, Copy It.â And goddamn, itâs copying the hell out of TikTok. The mighty plan? To... Read more âș
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The automotive industry has a âmillion-mileâ dream for electric vehicles, but itâs a boring one. They want to build a battery capable of being recharged over and over as many times as it takes to reach a million miles without losing its ability to retain a charge. Yawn. Weâre more interested in the cutting-edge quantum physics version of a million-mile battery: one that can last a million miles between charges.... Read more âș
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AI has become adept at recreating, altering, and restoring human speech. But as the replicas become indistinguishable from the real, fears about the tech are growing. Alex Serdiuk has a unique understanding of both the opportunities and threats. As the co-founder and CEO of AI startup Respeecher, Serdiuk has won an Emmy for creating a deepfake Richard Nixon, developed voice clones for speech disabilities, and de-aged Mark Hamillâs vocal cords... Read more âș
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Mozilla has rolled out Firefox version 102, which takes an extra step in preventing websites from tracking your movements on the web. The new version automatically strips query parameters in a URL string. These are the series of letters, numbers, and symbols following the question mark at the second part of certain URLs. For example: https://thuishaven.nl/16-juli-thuishaven-zomer-technospecial-w-colin-benders-nachtshow/?fbclid=IwAR3Q7R2K9A5pe6FWNnJOFiWxSXBzEJ44hbJmmbqVDmD1TKdhliwEWLhmCac Query parameters op Read more âș
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Ever wondered what would happen if bicycles could think for themselves? Well, this week, MIT researchers released a paper exploring the potential impacts of an autonomous bike fleet on city mobility. The MIT Autonomous Bicycle â a multi-year project â explores on-demand bike sharing. The idea is that users call for a bicycle through an app, and it will ride autonomously to their location, where they can ride it as... Read more âș
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While manufacturers have successfully increased the water-repelling nature of smartphones, they are still far from âwaterproofâ. A water-resistant product can usually resist water penetration to some extent, but a waterproof product is (meant to be) totally impervious to water. Last week, Samsung Australia was fined A$14 million by the Australian Federal Court over false representations in ads of the water resistance of its Galaxy phones. The tech giant admitted that... Read more âș
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Job titles have changed a lot in the last 30 years. If you asked someone in 1990 what a cloud architect was, they would probably imagine someone designing houses up in the heavens. Or, if you mentioned a data ninja in the early 2000s, a good guess might have been something fun happening on the Holodeck in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The job market adapts and... Read more âș
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Long-haul flights are a necessary evil and I was intrigued this week to see Air New Zealand is launching the worldâs first sleep pods for economy class travellers. This is a rare bit of good news for aviation design. Iâm still smarting from Ryanairâs idea to remove toilets from planes and its Skyrider concept, a âstanding seatâ from the pits of hell. Itâs baaaaaack! The AvioInteriors Skyrider saddle seat is... Read more âș
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When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that itâs written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts of human text. People are so accustomed to assuming that fluent language comes from a... Read more âș
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Steph Curry is currently celebrating another NBA championship â just 10 years after the star feared heâd never play again. Curryâs early years at the Golden State Warriors were plagued by chronic ankle injuries. In 2013, the teamâs new performance director, Keke Lyles, proposed a new explanation for the problem. Lyles believed Curry was overly reliant on his ankles for speed. The coach devised a training program that transferred power... Read more âș
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Artificial intelligence has completely upended the business world. Whether youâre a fledgling startup or a billion-dollar global conglomerate, the way you do business today is radically different than it was just five years ago. In the modern paradigm, one of your companyâs greatest assets is the data generated by your employees, clients, and customers. And, sadly, most businesses are leaving money on the table by simply storing that data away... Read more âș
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Google shut down Hangouts for Workspace in February, but thatâs not enough for the search giant: itâs now killing the mobile Hangouts app as well. In a recent blogpost, the tech behemoth announced that itâll bid farewell to the feature in November 2022. People still using Hangouts are urged to switch to the Chat app or Chat in Gmail. Credit: Google As for Hangouts users on the web? Well, Google... Read more âș
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