In a move to revolutionize digital payments in Ethiopia, Ethio Telecom partnered with global payments leader VISA Inc. to introduce the country’s first wallet-based Virtual Visa Card.

The telecom giant is also rolling out enhanced remittance services through Visa Direct and Telebirr Remit, offering more convenient and cost-effective solutions for transferring money abroad.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/ethio-telecom-unveils-virtual-visa-card-and-advanced-remittance/

⭐ Pro Tips:

▶️ Practice Regularly: Consistency is key. Code a little bit every day to keep your skills sharp.

▶️ Build Projects: Apply what you’ve learned by creating your own projects. It’s a great way to understand real-world applications and contribute to open-source projects. You can find Ethiopian projects like Made in Ethiopia here. Share your own open-source projects with others, too!

▶️ Join Communities: Engage with online communities to stay motivated, get feedback, and learn from others. Check out cool Telegram channels like #CodeNight, #Laravel_Addis, and #ETDevs.

If you know any useful groups or channels, please share them in the comments!

With the announcement of its US$4.9 billion acquisition of ZT Systems, a top supplier of AI infrastructure to hyper-scale computing companies, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has taken a major step forward in its long-term AI strategy and better positioned itself to take on market leader Nvidia.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/amd-takes-aim-at-nvidia-with-zt-systems-acquisition/

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👑 Calling all fresh graduates (2023/2024)!

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The Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) has seen a significant boost in revenue from electricity sales to data miners, generating $27 million in less than a year. While this is a positive development, it's essential to consider the potential implications for other sectors.

Experts argue that Ethiopia's growing reliance on data mining as a major source of electricity revenue could pose risks to the country's energy security. Suppose the demand from data mining companies continues to outpace the growth in overall electricity generation. In that case, there is a danger of creating a deficit that could impact other vital sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and households.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/a-double-edged-sword-for-ethiopia-s-energy-future/
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Artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with new breakthroughs emerging every day.

Last week, we saw significant updates that will impact various industries. Here are six highlights: X's NEO, Hotshot, Midjourney, LXTStudio, ElevenLabs & xAI's Grok-2.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/6-ai-game-changing-updates-this-week/
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#የተሳትፎ_ጥሪ 📣

በኢትዮጵያ አርቲፊሻል ኢንተለጀንስ ኢንስቲትዩት አማካኝነት የሚካሄደዉ 3ኛው #PanAfriConAI2024 ኮንፍረንስ ከጥቅምት 8 – 9፤ 2024 (እ.ኤ.አ) በአዲስ አበባ ይካሄዳል፡፡

በሁነቱ ላይ ለአርቲፊሻል ኢንተለጀንስ ዘርፍ ተመራማሪዎች እና የፈጠራ ሀሳብ ያላችው የዘርፉ አንቀሳቃሾች የሚሳተፉበት ዉድድር ተዘጋጅቷል፡፡

ስለሆነም ተመራማሪዎች እና የፈጠራ ሀሳብ ያላችሁ እንዲሁም በምስሉ ላይ የተቀመጠውን መስፈርት የምታሟሉ በውድድሩ ላይ እንድትሳተፉ ኢንስቲትዩቱ ጥሪውን ያቀርባል፡፡

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FDRE Artificial Intelligence Institute

Apple has unveiled iOS 18, the next iteration of its mobile operating system. iOS 18 makes iPhone even more personal, with deeper customization, new ways to connect, easier-to-find photos, and support for Apple Intelligence.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/ios-18-new-features/
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AI has been making strides in recent years, but one area that has remained challenging is reasoning. Now, OpenAI has unveiled a new language model that could change the game. Their latest creation, OpenAI o1, is 5-6 times stronger than GPT-4, and excels in math and coding by reasoning like a human, offering unprecedented accuracy and depth.

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/openai-launches-groundbreaking-o1-model-with-human-like-reasoning-capabilities/
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⭐ Mailtrap is an email delivery platform that lets users test, send, and manage emails.

▶️ Email Testing: Acts as a dummy SMTP server to test emails without sending them to real customers.
▶️ Email Sending: Use SMTP for quick and easy integration with your application to start sending emails. Or Email API for even better flexibility.

🔗 https://mailtrap.io/

#website #tools #email

⭐NotebookLM

▶️ is a tool that helps you understand complex information. Upload your sources and it will create an expert that can answer questions based on your material. Now, you can listen to a conversation between two AI hosts discussing your sources.

🔗 https://notebooklm.google.com/

#website #ai #tools

What is monorepo?

Imagine having many projects within one repository. For example, Google uses a monorepo strategy, meaning that instead of having separate repositories for each project, like YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, and Google Drive, all these projects are stored in a single repository named "Google."....

⚡️ Read more on this here: 👇🏽
https://blog.siltawi.com/post/monorepo-a-single-repository-for-multiple-projects/

The AI Code Editor 🔥

Cursor AI offers intelligent code suggestions, automates repetitive tasks, and provides valuable insights to help developers write better, more efficient code.

Cursor AI Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk9lXobJ95E

🔗 https://www.cursor.com/

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👑 Introducing Better Auth👑

Check out 'Better Auth' by @beka_cru! This open-source, framework-agnostic authentication library for TypeScript offers extensive features and a plugin ecosystem, making it easy to add functionalities like 2FA and multi-tenant support.

✨ Features 🎉

▶️ Email & Password Authentication.
▶️ Support multiple OAuth providers.
▶️ Two Factor Authentication.
▶️ Gain and manage access.
▶️ Supports popular frameworks

🌐 Check the website:
https://better-auth.com

⭐️ Star the repo:
https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth

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⭐ Learn X in Y minutes

It's just like a short note for most programming languages🤩 you can check it out to learn or recap your knowledge.

▶️ Whirlwind tours of (several, hopefully many someday) popular and ought-to-be-more-popular programming languages, presented as valid, commented code and explained as they go.

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

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