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Squarespace, an online platform for entrepreneurs, has agreed to go private in a $6.9 billion all-cash transaction with Permira. Stockholders will receive $44 per share, a 29% premium. Founder and CEO Anthony Casalena will remain in his role. Long-term investors General Atlantic and Accel will also re-invest. The company plans to invest in enhancing services […]
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The United States Air Force is making significant progress in developing AI-controlled aircraft that could rival human pilots. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall recently flew in an autonomously-controlled F-16 Fighting Falcon as part of the Next Generation Air Dominance program. The AI was able to maneuver the fighter in simulated dogfights against manned aircraft, leading […]
Boxwood is a server-side templating engine written in JavaScript, with unique design goals such as splitting templates into components, hashing CSS per component, automatic minification, inlining critical CSS, and supporting i18n. It allows for easy importing of dependencies, inline images or svgs, and is small and simple to start using. The template is created through […]
Jason Calacanis, a renowned early-stage venture capitalist, is not only known for his bold bets on unicorns like Uber and Robinhood but also for his popular podcasts, This Week in Startups and All-In. Calacanis highlights the importance of podcasts in building relationships and sourcing start-ups for his firm, Launch. In recent years, venture capitalists have […]
Experience A Slower Speed of Light, a unique first-person game prototype where players collect orbs to slow down the speed of light, revealing special relativity effects like the Doppler effect and time dilation. Developed using OpenRelativity, this game combines accessible gameplay with theoretical physics research. Share your mastery on Twitter and explore the effects of […]
In a fascinating conversation with Benjamin Franklin, the author explores the marvels of the modern world, from electric streetlamps to the Internet to sending people to the Moon. While some advancements like CAT scans and GPS leave Franklin astounded, the author also highlights the dangers of overfishing and the incredible knowledge about the number of […]
Protect your email address with SVG instead of JS. Email addresses on webpages need protection from spambots. Conventionally, email protection techniques involve HTML, CSS, and JS, but each has its pros and cons. JS-based approaches are sophisticated but rely on JS. The SVG-based approach detailed here is different and offers benefits such as working with […]
In 2023, the USDA updated its plant hardiness map after 11 years, impacting gardeners nationwide. The new map reflects changes in lowest winter temperatures, with some areas experiencing warmer weather. The map, based on 1991-2020 data, helps predict plants’ winter survival in specific zones. However, the map doesn’t account for extreme lowest temperatures, frequency of […]
The article discusses various efforts to improve AI efficiency in terms of compute usage, focusing on the NVIDIA H100 GPU. New instructions like WGMMA are crucial for maximizing performance, while shared memory and address generation also play key roles. The ThunderKittens embedded DSL simplifies kernel writing and optimizes hardware utilization by focusing on specific tensor […]
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi launched the Falcon 2 Series, introducing the Falcon 2 11B model with groundbreaking Vision-to-Language capabilities. The Falcon 2 11B outperforms Meta’s Llama 3 8B and competes with Google’s Gemma 7B model. Both the Falcon 2 11B and Falcon 2 11B VLM are open-source and multilingual, with the […]