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UneeBee offers a unique solution for building engaging lessons that go beyond passive video-watching. With the ability to incorporate real-world scenarios, educators can create interactive content that truly resonates with their audience. The user-friendly editor makes it a breeze to design, edit, and publish lessons, even for those without technical expertise. Additionally, UneeBee provides seamless […]
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Infinite Scale Configuration Management Etcha is a platform that provides serverless build and runtime configurations for servers and applications. The unique aspect of Etcha is its ability to create these configurations without the need for traditional servers and apps. It offers both push and pull modes, allowing developers to easily manage their instances in real-time. […]
Amazon is reportedly planning to move its Fire TV away from Android and onto its own Linux-based system. This decision leaves TV Compose in a difficult situation, as it will only be used for Android TV and older Fire TV devices. However, this opens up an opportunity for entrepreneurs to fill this gap in app […]
Researchers have made progress in solving the problem of private information retrieval from databases, a key question in cryptography. The challenge is to access information from a public database without revealing what has been accessed. Two groups of researchers in 2017 were the first to develop programs for private information retrieval, but they were not […]
Computer scientist Geoff Hinton challenges the notion that chatbots are just glorified autocomplete, arguing that to predict the next word accurately, chatbots must actually understand the context. Hinton’s perspective made the author reflect on their own work, which sometimes involves offering shallow, associative responses akin to chatbot autocomplete. They find this approach useful, as it […]
NBI.AI is a generative analytics platform trusted by over 2,000 growth teams worldwide. Their Narrative BI tool goes beyond numbers and charts to create engaging and easy-to-understand stories about your data. Powered by advanced AI algorithms, Narrative BI generates insights in natural language, eliminating the need for technical jargon. This makes it accessible to both […]
This website offers a simple concept of allowing two strangers to view each other’s faces, without any additional features. It solely focuses on displaying the faces of the users, with no text chat or audio options available. Interestingly, the video feed pauses as soon as one of the participants blinks. The technology behind this site […]
The Apostrophe Protection Society, founded in 2001, aims to preserve the correct use of the apostrophe, a punctuation mark often misused. Although it temporarily closed at the end of 2019, it has now been reinstated by its new chairman, Bob McCalden, who is determined to champion the use of the apostrophe. The society offers guidance […]
The author, who was raised with a Polish identity, reminisces about how they corrected their schoolmates on the true identity of the mathematician who proved the Earth revolves around the Sun. While Copernicus did build a groundbreaking model with the Sun at the center, it did not eliminate the need for epicycles and was not […]
Xash3D FWGS is a game engine that aims to extend and provide compatibility with the Half-Life Engine. It is a heavily modified fork of the original Xash3D Engine. The engine supports multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, BSD, and Android. It also offers better multiplayer support, multiple renderers support, and an advanced virtual filesystem. Xash3D FWGS […]