March 15, 2025

Second Life Steals, Deals, and Freebies: Where to Find Free Body Skins to Match LAQ Skin Tones

Please note that I am still taking a hiatus from blogging; I only wrote this blogpost because it was the most convenient way to share a lot of detailed information, in a way people can easily refer back to. Don’t get me wrong, Primfeed is great, but stuff tends to disappear from people’s feeds very quickly, whereas a blog is more permanent! Thanks. Have you read my first review of the LAQ Era2 SupremeUHD heads?

Ryan Schultz March 15, 2025

AR/VR

Launching your first AI project with a grain of RICE: Weighing reach, impact, confidence and effort to create your roadmap

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Businesses know they can’t ignore AI, but when it comes to building with it, the real question isn’t, What can AI do — it’s, What can it do reliably? And more importantly: Where do you start? This article introduces a framework to help businesses prioritize AI opportunities. Inspired by project management frameworks like the RICE scoring

Sean Falconer, Confluent March 15, 2025

Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO): The Next Frontier in SEO | HackerNoon

Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO) is one of the newest developments in search engine optimization. AIO combines AI technologies with traditional SEO techniques which improves the processes. This concept, which is frequently called AI SEO or SEO using AI, uses sophisticated algorithms and machine learning models to analyze and optimize web content. The purpose of employing these new technologies shifts toward increasing the possibilities of using AI information and automation to transform the digital marketing industry.

Micheal Chukwube March 15, 2025

Software

The Future of Healthcare: How It Can Be Used to Save a Few Billion Lives | HackerNoon

I spent a lot of time in and around hospitals last year. More time than I have spent in the previous 7 years combined. Coincidentally, a lot of my friends also spent a lot of time in hospitals, caring for loved ones, and getting medical help themselves. The sentiment has been the same across the board. Disappointment. Is this what ‘modern medicine’ is!!? It definitely doesn’t feel very modern to me, especially because a lot

Adetolani Eko March 15, 2025

OTel Me Why: Why I’m So Excited About OTel | HackerNoon

LIMITED TIME OFFER! I’m ready for my next adventure as a DevRel advocate/Technical Evangelist/IT Talespinner. If that sounds like something you need, drop me a line by email or on LinkedIn. My blog on pricing from the other day caught the attention of the folks over at MetricFire, and we struck up a conversation about some of the ideas, ideals, and challenges swirling around monitoring, observability, and its place in the broader IT landscape. At

Leon Adato March 15, 2025

Hardware

AMD Exec Says Demand For Radeon RX 9070 Series Is Unprecedented

The last few weeks for AMD have been pretty remarkable. The chipmaker is firing on all cylinders: the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D have arrived to universal praise, the Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo” processors finally launched to wide acclaim, and the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards brought the RDNA 4 architecture and a much-needed injection of sane pricing to a downright brutal graphics market. AMD’s David McAfee agrees, stating outright that it has

Zak Killian March 15, 2025

Hardware

M4 MacBook Air Teardown: Painful DIY Repairs But A Surprising Bright Spot

It’s fair to say that Apple’s products are not known for being super-friendly to DIY (do-it-yourself) repairs, though not without the occasional surprise, such as the iPhone 16 that scored 7/10 by the folks at iFixIt. What about Apple’s newly minted M4 MacBook Air? A fresh teardown reveals it’s largely more of the same, though there is a “surprising bright spot.” More on that in a moment. In case you missed it, last week Apple

Paul Lilly March 15, 2025

Mastering Hadoop, Part 3: Hadoop Ecosystem: Get the most out of your cluster | Towards Data Science

As we have already seen with the basic components (Part 1, Part 2), the Hadoop ecosystem is constantly evolving and being optimized for new applications. As a result, various tools and technologies have developed over time that make Hadoop more powerful and even more widely applicable. As a result, it goes beyond the pure HDFS & MapReduce platform and offers, for example, SQL, as well as NoSQL queries or real-time streaming. Hive/HiveQL Apache Hive is

Aaron Birnbaum and Matthew Makansi March 15, 2025