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Topanga banishes single-use plastics from your Grubhub order

As a person who cares about the environment, a steel vacuum mug for coffee and matching water bottle are companions that live with me when I’m out and about. When I order food for takeaway or delivery, I’m (almost always) … Continue reading

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Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM

Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few, and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of … Continue reading

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Google Cloud infrastructure head Urs Hölzle stepping down

Urs Hölzle began working for Google in 1999 at a time when people were using Yahoo and Alta Vista to search the internet. As Google grew in popularity over the years, he moved through the ranks. Most recently he has … Continue reading

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Istio graduates

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open-source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to … Continue reading

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Google’s latest art project recruits an animated bird — and AI — to play the cello

Google might be laser focused on generative AI these days, like the majority of its Big Tech competitors. But that hasn’t stopped the search giant from patronizing pretty out-there art projects, true to its experimental roots. Enter the latest creation … Continue reading

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Clibrain joins the generative AI race with Lince, an LLM optimized for Spanish

There is a long list of Large Language Models (LLMs) out in the wild already, from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Google’s PaLM2 to Meta’s LLaMA, to name three of the more high profile examples. Differentiation between LLMs is determined by factors … Continue reading

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Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says

If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling out some unpopular features, Tumblr is now trying to “build … Continue reading

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Employee benefits startup Swile expects to become profitable next quarter

French startup Swile shared some revenue metrics just a year after merging with Bimpli, the employee benefits division of BPCE. Swile’s main product is a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers. In 2022, Swile generated €138 million … Continue reading

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Domino’s strikes deal to list its menu on Uber Eats and Postmates in the U.S.

Domino’s, the world’s largest pizza company in terms of sales and stores, has entered an agreement with Uber to list its menu on Uber Eats and Postmates. The deal indicates that Domino’s is reversing its stance against working with third-party … Continue reading

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Foraged’s wild foods marketplace saw repeat customer rate increase over 1,000%

We don’t have to forage for food so much anymore; however, people not only enjoy unearthing wild mushrooms and other foods, but consumers are also equally excited to eat them. Enter Foraged, a marketplace for purchasing wild and specialty foods … Continue reading

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