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Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Chris Giancarlo, known as “Crypto Dad,” has emerged as the leading candidate to become the first White House “crypto czar,” Fox Business reported on Nov. 21. The Trump administration is reportedly establishing the role to guide US crypto policy and foster growth in the $3 trillion digital asset […] The post Trump eyeing former CFTC chair Chris Giancarlo for White...
If you’ve been eyeing the reMarkable 2 for a while, now is a great time to buy one. While the E Ink tablet itself isn’t on sale, reMarkable has discounted the two bundles it offers alongside the 2. Until the end of December 2, you can save $89 off the Type Folio and Book Folio bundles. Both include reMarkable’s Marker Plus stylus, which comes with an eraser feature not found on the regular Marker stylus. It’s also...
YouTube announced on Thursday that its Dream Screen feature for Shorts now lets you create AI-generated video backgrounds. Up until now, Dream Screen could only create image backgrounds. The new capability is possible due to the integration of Google DeepMind’s AI video-generation model,Veo, which can create 1080p video clips in various cinematic styles. Users can […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
You're going to want to shop Walmart's epic Black Friday deal drops stat.
Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray discuss their roles in 'The Merry Gentlemen'.
Gain deep visibility into AWS Lambda performance with CloudWatch Application Signals, eliminating manual monitoring complexities and improving serverless app health.
If you’ve been shopping around for a big-screen TV, this offer should be of interest. Purchase the TCL 75-inch S4 Series at Walmart for only $378.
Bluesky finally has enough people to really, truly react to big news. Matt Gaetz dropping out of the AG nomination was one of its first big moments.
Valve is holding developers accountable for their season passes in new documentation released this week.
LangChain’s Parent Document Retriever—RevisitedEnhance retrieval with context using your vector databaseonlyTL;DR—We achieve the same functionality as LangChains’ Parent Document Retriever (link) by utilizing metadata queries. You can explore the codehere.Introduction toRAGRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is currently one of the hottest topics in the world of LLM and AI applications.In short, RAG is a technique for...
I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3].I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate...
Astronomers have taken a detailed image of a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time.
Amazon’s Black Friday sale has record-low prices on the Ember Smart Mug 2. The accessory heats your beverage to a set temperature (and keeps it there until you’re done), ensuring your coffee, tea or hot chocolate is just right. In this sale, you can get the 10-oz. model, which usually retails for $130, for as little as $75.49. The larger 14-oz. Smart Mug 2 (typically $150) is on sale for as low as $91.49. The...
Understanding AI applications in bio for machine learning engineersPhoto by Conny Schneider onUnsplashWhat do a network of financial transactions and a protein structure have in common? They’re both poorly modeled in Euclidean (x, y) space and require encoding complex, large, and heterogeneous graphs to trulygrok.Left: image in Euclidean Space. Right: graph in non-Euclidean space. From Graph neural networks: A review...
After two years of bankruptcy hearings, FTX creditor reimbursements are set to begin, but the FTX estate remains embroiled in litigation.
If you need some help finding gifts, this guide explores the best eufy robot vacuum Black Friday deals that are live right now.
Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo’s CEO. Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like share photos among […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Labour government is reportedly readying crypto asset regulations as Europe pulls ahead and the US elects a pro-crypto president.
Hyundai's first all-electric three row SUV isn't just brand new at the LA Auto Show 2024, it's also full of features we'd love to see rival cars "borrow"
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Toyota unveiled a stylish 4Runner TRD Surf Concept at SEMA 2024, harkening back to the vehicle's first generation. Here's what it's got going on under the hood.
Researchers from the University College London have done what celebrity chefs and Italian nonnas could only dream of: they've made the world's thinnest spaghetti. This culinary-sounding accomplishment, published in Nanoscale Advances, has yielded strands of starch nanofibers that are just 372 nanometers wide, which is invisible to the naked eye and is even smaller than some wavelengths of light. "The world's thinnest...
As the year nears its end, Google TV is revealing the most-watched movies and TV shows on the platform for 2024. Here’s the full list. more…
The Amazon are in full swing today but we are once again taking a short break to collect all of the best app deals, this time courtesy of Google Play for Android users. Having said that, you’ll want to make sure you scope the now live Black Friday offers on Chromecast with Google TV (4K) as well as Galaxy Watch Ultra – now at the lowest price we have tracked all-time – and the rest of the Google official 2024 Black...
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta, T-Mobile and Twilio.
The so-called dealer rule as interpreted by the SEC would have treated DeFi projects and traders like securities exchanges and brokers.
Microsoft is pushing full-screen pop-up ads to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 11 and Copilot+.
After selling through 222K cans of Rekt Drinks sparkling water, Rekt Brands is gearing up to launch its Ethereum token this week.
In a sign of the times, a backdoor malware whose ancestors date back to 2005 has morphed to target Linux systems.
Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus, and Inside Out 2 are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Disney+ this month.
The fixation on the least reputable aspects of the industry obscures the real progress being made in areas like DePIN, stablecoins and DeFi, says Mahesh Ramakrishnan.
Riley Wenckus used TikTok to tell Elon Musk she paid “an Etsy witch” $7.99 to make his life “a living hell.” A new market has opened up for others looking to follow her lead.
As part of an ongoing copyright lawsuit, The New York Times says it spent 150 hours sifting through OpenAI’s training data looking for potential evidence—only for OpenAI to delete all of its work.
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As outlined in the newly minted document, devs that offer a season pass are essentially promising future content. During the launch process, the dev will be asked to commit to a launch window for each piece of content in the season pass.Read Entire Article