Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom

Nvidia temporarily became a $1 trillion company on Tuesday morning, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O...

Urban drone deliveries, and our guide to AI regulations

—Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk to deliver the iced tea I’d ordered half an hour earlier. The delivery service is operated by Meituan, China’s most popular food delivery platform, which has...

Wish you could tweak that text? WhatsApp is letting users edit messages

The WhatsApp communications app is seen on a smartphone, in New York, March 10, 2017. WhatsApp is allowing users to do just that, for the first 15 minutes after they send a message. The popular chat app announced in a blog post Monday, May 22, 2023, that users can...

Firefox CSS Bug: Four-Sided Positioning With Buttons

Four-sided positioning in CSS is one of my favorite ways to "cover" an area of the viewport with an absolutely-positioned (or fixed-positioned) element. It's had perfect support in all browsers for like 15-years; but, the other day I tripped over a bug in Firefox. It...

Generating Database Seed Files with ChatGPT [Article]

Frameworks like Laravel and Ruby on Rails eliminate countless decisions that you would otherwise be forced to make when building web applications. Even so, a great deal of time is spent on mundane tasks rather than building the intellectual property that makes the...

Elon Musk teases two new EVs, says Tesla is already building one

Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased two new electric vehicles Tuesday at the automaker’s 2023 annual shareholder’s meeting. The billionaire executive even claimed that Tesla is already in the process of building a new product. “I just want to emphasize that we are...

10 Fantastic Examples of Business Cards with Holographic Effects

When crafting business cards, it is often believed that everything lies solely in the design. We tend to rely on eye-catching illustrations, unique typography, or clever ideas that make our 3.5 x 2-inch card stand out in a sea of others. However, there is always an...

Parsing GitHub Gist Embeds Into A Normalized Data Structure Using jSoup In ColdFusion

As I mentioned yesterday, I've been using GitHub Gists to add the syntax highlighting / formatting in my blog post content. This has been working great; but, I've never liked the idea of having to reach out to a 3rd-party system at render time in order to provide my...

Google Chrome Brings Better AI Brains to the Web

Much of the AI technology we use today runs in hulking data centers operated by cloud computing giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But with a technology called WebGPU that Google is now building into its Chrome browser, web apps can take advantage of AI...

Nvidia became a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom

Nvidia temporarily became a $1 trillion company on Tuesday morning, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O...

Urban drone deliveries, and our guide to AI regulations

—Zeyi Yang In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk to deliver the iced tea I’d ordered half an hour earlier. The delivery service is operated by Meituan, China’s most popular food delivery platform, which has...

Firefox CSS Bug: Four-Sided Positioning With Buttons

Four-sided positioning in CSS is one of my favorite ways to "cover" an area of the viewport with an absolutely-positioned (or fixed-positioned) element. It's had perfect support in all browsers for like 15-years; but, the other day I tripped over a bug in Firefox. It...

Generating Database Seed Files with ChatGPT [Article]

Frameworks like Laravel and Ruby on Rails eliminate countless decisions that you would otherwise be forced to make when building web applications. Even so, a great deal of time is spent on mundane tasks rather than building the intellectual property that makes the...

Elon Musk teases two new EVs, says Tesla is already building one

Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased two new electric vehicles Tuesday at the automaker’s 2023 annual shareholder’s meeting. The billionaire executive even claimed that Tesla is already in the process of building a new product. “I just want to emphasize that we are...

10 Fantastic Examples of Business Cards with Holographic Effects

When crafting business cards, it is often believed that everything lies solely in the design. We tend to rely on eye-catching illustrations, unique typography, or clever ideas that make our 3.5 x 2-inch card stand out in a sea of others. However, there is always an...