Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is planning a fresh round of layoffs and will cut thousands of employees as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?

Project page for PaLM-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model.

Give those 420p YouTube classics a resolution boost.

Using ChatGPT to Apply Concepts from One Domain for Innovation in Another

Five ways to soothe a mind overstimulated by anxiety, stress and streams of information.

A piracy study that the EU commissioned in 2013 has been kept hidden for years, likely because it did not find statistical proven evidence that piracy impacts legitimate purchases.

SIMs were plastic cards, then motherboard chips, and soon will just be in the SoC.

<p>Exploring the new cognitive skills of tomorrow with advanced AI generative models.</p>

When I was a teenager I often used fantasy as a vehicle for escapism. Some people, when they fantasise, think about sex or dragons or wildly unlikely events like winning the lottery. I fantasised a…

Chat with AI using your API keys. Pay only for what you use. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other LLMs supported. The best chat LLM frontend UI for all AI models.

Every week now, it seems, events on the ground make a fresh mockery of those who confidently assert what AI will never be able to do, or won’t do for centuries if ever, or is incoherent even …

Coinbase Global Inc. says it’s not responsible for losses stemming from a security breach, according to an account holder who sued in an attempt to recover $96,000 that he says was stolen from him.

Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use.
Introduction Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components. You need a message bus, a stream processing engine, an…

From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.

<p>Once, while visiting NBC Television studios in Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Center, I saw an abandoned elevator shaft with seemingly miles of different cables laced together. I took notice because it was such a rare sight — with the maze of work quite intricate…

I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog