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Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of sites have famously run on a series of physical servers lodged in data centers in the US, mostly near New York City. In our scrappy days, we ran everything on a single machine and crowed about it when we got a second server to handle our SQL […]
Introduction Consider speech recognition. We have a dataset of audio clips and corresponding transcripts. Unfortunately, we don’t know how the characters in the transcript align to the audio. This makes training a speech recognizer harder than it might at first seem. Without this alignment, the simple approaches aren’t available to us. We could devise a […]
Netflix is testing theaters, merch, and themed experiences — but is this a lasting strategy? Check out the potential upsides and risks. Media-streaming veteran Netflix (NFLX 0.60%) is trying a bunch of new things. The king of digital entertainment is adopting a bunch of old-school ideas right now. Some of these moves are already turning […]
The Copilot Chat extension for VS Code has been evolving rapidly over the past few months, adding a wide range of new features. Its new agent mode lets you use multiple large language models (LLMs), built-in tools, and MCP servers to write code, make commit requests, and integrate with external systems. It’s highly customizable, allowing […]
What are computers for? Historically, different answers to this question – that is, different visions of computing – have helped inspire and determine the computing systems humanity has ultimately built. Consider the early electronic computers. ENIAC, the world’s first general-purpose electronic computer, was commissioned to compute artillery firing tables for the United States Army. Other […]
Japan’s SBI Group has entered into a strategic partnership with Chainlink to accelerate blockchain adoption, digital asset growth, and tokenization across Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region. The collaboration, announced on Aug. 24, combines SBI’s financial market expertise with Chainlink’s widely used infrastructure for data, interoperability, and institutional-grade DeFi applications. Driving tokenization The initiative is […]
Key Takeaways Six firms filed S-1 amendments for spot XRP ETFs while Grayscale submitted a new filing for its XRP Trust ETF. Powell’s signal of September rate cuts drove Ethereum to a new all-time high and lifted XRP 10% to $3.10. Share this article Six major asset managers, Bitwise, Canary Capital, CoinShares, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, […]
The following is a guest post and opinion from Corey Billington, Co-Founder and CEO at Blubird. Most token launches play out the same way. Founders spend weeks buried in spreadsheets, lawyers churn out disclaimers, and influencers start teasing “TGE soon.” Behind the scenes, though, private round investors are just waiting for cliffs to end so […]
With the growing success of neural networks, there is a corresponding need to be able to explain their decisions — including building confidence about how they will behave in the real-world, detecting model bias, and for scientific curiosity. In order to do so, we need to both construct deep abstractions and reify (or instantiate) them in rich […]
Bitcoin is trading just above $113,000, with realized cap rising steadily and spending activity led overwhelmingly by coins younger than three months. Profit realization remains positive, short-term holders hover around breakeven, and older supply shows little sign of distribution. Bitcoin closed Aug. 20 at $113,599, marking a 7.9% drop in the past week, a 3.3% […]
