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Image: Microsoft Imagine being in a meeting, perhaps with a client or with other team members, and not quite sharing the same preferred languages. Communication barriers can cause all kinds of misunderstandings and issues when collaborating, and a translator isn’t always available. At Ignite 2024, Microsoft just unveiled a cool new feature for Microsoft Teams …

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yhangry Marketplace for private chefs £50K – £70K GBP / 0.02% – 0.15% Location London, England, GB Connect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. Apply to role › About the role Yhangry is like Airbnb, but for finding a chef to cook for an event: Their birthday, a hen party or a family Christmas …

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This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Post auonsson auonsson.bsky.social did:plc:d56aevbrhhknlxhjisuouofm Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yi Peng 3 crossed both submarine cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke. She was shadowed by Danish navy for a …

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Vital personal and business information flows over the Internet more frequently than ever, and we don’t always know when it’s happening. It’s clear at this point that encrypting is something all of us should be doing. Then why don’t we use TLS (the successor to SSL) everywhere? Every browser in every device supports it. Every …

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Nov 19, 2024 BM25, or Best Match 25, is a widely used algorithm for full text search. It is the default in Lucene/Elasticsearch and SQLite, among others. Recently, it has become common to combine full text search and vector similarity search into “hybrid search”. I wanted to understand how full text search works, and specifically …

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Back in August a U.S. federal court found Google guilty of violating anti-trust laws, and the fallout could be the biggest antitrust action since the breakup of AT&T/Bell way back in the 1980s. But exactly what the enforcement action will look like is still very much in the air. Recent reports indicate that the U.S. …

The U.S. Justice Dept. wants to break up Google and Chrome Read More »

Windows 11 24H2 has been struggling with numerous problems since it released back in October, including network connectivity failures, broken keyboard shortcuts, and crashing Office apps. For many, the only fix so far has been to revert to a previous version of Windows 11. Last week, Microsoft released cumulative update KB5046617 that was supposed to …

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Key Takeaways As per inside sources, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has managed to secure $6 billion in funding.  The bigger chunk of the funding, $5 billion, comes from Middle Eastern sovereign funds whereas the rest of the $1 billion came from other investors.  This money will be used to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips that …

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Key Takeaways The House Select Committee on China has raised concerns over Amazon’s latest e-commerce deal with TikTok.  The Committee had called for a meeting with Amazon representatives where they were advised against the partnership. TikTok is being deemed a threat to national security and is on the verge of being banned in the US. …

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Key takeaways Leading investment management firm BlackRock has secured a license to operate in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This license serves as an expansion move for BlackRock’s AI and private markets in the crypto-friendly region. Abu Dhabi continues to broaden its stance as an attractive center for growing innovation …

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