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...

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...

Guide for Odoo Website MasterCard Hosted Checkout Payment Acquirer

INTRODUCTION Odoo Website MasterCard Hosted Checkout Payment Acquirer- another name for reliability and security! Having multiple payment acquirers on your website is quite beneficial as it gives customers numerous options to pick the desired one. In addition, the...

The 30 best Mother’s Day gifts for moms in 2023

Joseph Joseph Rocker Garlic CrusherGarlic is a well-known staple in many a culinary dish. If you tend to burn through a lot of it, however, it pays to invest in a tool that makes prepping it for your next meal a bit more effortless. Luckily, this durable...

Hosting Google Fonts Locally For GDPR Compliance

On episode 607 of the Syntax podcast, Wes and Scott interviewed the co-founders of Termageddon, a consulting company that helps websites create and maintain compliant policies. One of the topics that Termageddon has discussed in the past is Google Fonts. Google Fonts...

‘Mother of all of us’

Priscilla King Gray, the wife of former MIT president Paul Gray ’54, SM ’55, ScD ’60, and cofounder of the MIT Public Service Center (since renamed the PKG Center), died February 8 at age 89. In more than 50 years at the Institute, beginning when her husband...

John Gall’s Law On Building Complex Systems

Years ago, in the book Designing Data-Intensive Applications, I came across "Gall's Law". It's a hot take on building complex systems by systems theorist, John Gall. The law resonates deeply with me; and, I wanted to pull it out into its own post so that I could share...

Ten Mobile App Development Trends to Follow in 2023

Due to the rapid advancements and changes in mobile application development trends, many companies prefer to continuously monitor the appearance of new technologies in the mobile app development world. Effective implementation of the latest innovations in custom...

The Polestar 4 replaces a rear window with a hi-def screen

Polestar introduced the Polestar 4, the second SUV in its lineup, at Auto Shanghai 2023. Actually, it’s technically an SUV coupé, meaning it has the space and four doors of an SUV, but the sloping roof and aerodynamics of a coupé. The Polestar 4 has plenty of...