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Things you notice when you run the oldest dynamic QR code platform on the market: a lot of what people assume about QR codes turns out, on close inspection, to be wrong. I'll start with a story that captures the kind of thing I mean. A premium olive
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Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of Company of the Week! Every week, we like to share an awesome tech company from our tech company database, making its evergreen mark on the internet. This week, we’re happy to shine a light on Yubico - a cybersecurity company dedicated
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Truth Behind the Patents Reading patent documentation rarely sounds exciting. Dense language, diagrams, abstract claims - it is not where most people would look to understand how modern platforms work. And yet, if you know what you are looking for, patents are one of the few places where companies describe
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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Good, solid science is hard at the best of times, and even harder when the target of investigation is not confined to the lab, but free to roam the big, messy world. We've talked about how simple procedural errors and incorrect assumptions can cause problems even in space,
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Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m. Decart, the AI research lab building real-time video and world models, announced on Monday it had raised $300m in new funding
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Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees earlier this year to hand
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The all-stock takeover, the largest power acquisition ever, gives NextEra the utility that runs Northern Virginia’s data-centre belt and consolidates the bidding power on the demand side of the AI-electricity trade. NextEra Energy has agreed to acquire Dominion Energy for about $67bn in an all-stock deal, Bloomberg reported on
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When I discovered Audible back in 2017, it felt like unlocking a business superpower. I’d always loved devouring business books, but with a hectic schedule, my addiction to knowledge building was restricted to bedtime reading and the occasional long commute. Audiobooks changed everything. Suddenly, I was learning about extreme
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* Discord has released a major update for Linux users * Game and screen sharing has been improved with hardware-accelerated video encoding now supported via Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs * It comes as users remain frustrated about global age verification plans Discord on Linux, particularly on the Steam Deck or SteamOS handhelds,
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* Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw in the Funnel Builder plugin to inject credit card skimmers into checkout pages * FunnelKit released a patched version, but more than half of active sites remain on older, vulnerable builds * Stolen payment data is being monetized through dark web sales and fraudulent ad purchases
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* Meet the Go Birding M One Smart AI spotting scope * It's the world's first with AI hardware, and it can shoot 4K video * Subject detection, autofocus, and bird identification also feature Spotting scopes are traditionally a wildlife and bird watching essential, offering a stable and highly
