July 16, 2024

Cohere teams up with Fujitsu to launch Japanese LLM ‘Takane’ for enterprises

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As enterprises grow bullish on the potential of AI, companies developing foundation models are moving to expand their footprint and serve across geographies. A few months ago, OpenAI ventured into Japan with a Tokyo hub – its first in Asia, and before that, rival Anthropic partnered with Singaporean telecom giant SKT to work on a custom

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Templating in Software Development: Taking a Deeper Look | HackerNoon

1. Introduction Since I started my journey with programming, I noticed an interesting pattern: the majority of applications are templated. Yes, it’s a pure fact! Just stop right here, at the beginning of this article, and start thinking of all the projects you have developed. What do they have in common? If you look closely, you’ll see that many core functionalities are reused across different projects. These core functionalities often include user authentication, payment processing,

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Software

To Interact Better, Interact More for Fun | HackerNoon

Interaction Is Greater Than Resources “How can a country with no oil, gold, or coltan, be richer than a country with all three plus bigger chunks of fertile land, forests?” I had this conversation with an OG History teacher at the high school where I teach. He was teaching me. I was the student. The first country is called Japan. The second country is called DR Congo. 2 words – Human Interaction. The interactions of

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Hardware

Western Digital Adds 8TB Model to Popular High-End SN850X SSD Drive Family

Western Digital has quietly introduced an 8 TB version of its high-end SN850X SSD, doubling the top capacity of the well-regarded drive family. The new drive offers performance on par with other members of the range, but with twice as much capacity as the previous top-end model – and with a sizable price premium to go with its newfound capacity. Western Digital introduced its WD_Black SN850X SSDs in the summer of 2022, releasing single-sided 1

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Mistral releases Codestral Mamba for faster, longer code generation

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The well-funded French AI startup Mistral, known for its powerful open source AI models, launched two new entries in its growing family of large language models (LLMs) today: a math-based model and a code generating model for programmers and developers based on the new architecture known as Mamba developed by other researchers late last year.  Mamba

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The New Features of React 19: What You Need to Know | HackerNoon

React ⚛️is the most famous UI library in front-end development today. For developers looking to stay ahead of the React race, understanding new React 19 features is essential. Overview of the Features ⚛️React compiler 🗄️ Server components 🖥 🔄Automatic Batching📦 🗒️SEO Metadata 📈Improved Data Fetching with Suspense 💼 Assets Loading 🪝 Enhanced hooks The Revolution of React 19 is exciting and interesting. Let’s read now! ⚛️ React Compiler ⚛️ React19 is getting a new helper called the

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Product Hunt Survivor Bias: My Experience | HackerNoon

After months of hard work, feedback, and learning, I launched Curl2Url on Product Hunt. Three months ago, on March 19, 2024, I eagerly submitted Curl2Url to Product Hunt, only to find it missing from the spotlight. Perplexed, I delved deeper, stumbling upon a tab housing all products posted that day, there was Curl2Url, lost at the bottom of the page. Checking out outlier days featured chances, I didn’t see a variable related to being featured

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Will Bitcoin Drop to $30,000 by the End of This Month? | HackerNoon

Even after the recent pump, Bitcoin’s price has reached bearish milestones on trading charts and on-chain metrics. Scary stuff. Does that mean it will drop to $30,000 by July 31, 2024? No. It will probably never drop that low. As part of the chart I provide my newsletter followers, I have a black zone that’s a derivative of the Mayer Multiple, a popular metric for assessing how “hot” Bitcoin’s price gets. For the sake of

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