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Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field (Kazuyuki Okudaira/Nikkei Asia)

Kazuyuki Okudaira / Nikkei Asia: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field  —  Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs  —  TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …

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Sources detail Apple’s efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources detail Apple’s efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses  —  In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …

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Source: Sony is developing a handheld, codenamed Q Lite, which will use Remote Play with the PS5 and feature an 8-inch 1080p touchscreen and adaptive triggers (Tom Henderson/Insider Gaming)

Tom Henderson / Insider Gaming: Source: Sony is developing a handheld, codenamed Q Lite, which will use Remote Play with the PS5 and feature an 8-inch 1080p touchscreen and adaptive triggers  —  Following days of speculation, Insider Gaming can report that there’s a new PlayStation Handheld in development.

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SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue web promo page in March, only 116,000 signed up; Blue is used by less than 1% of monthly users (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: SimilarWeb: of the 2.6M people who visited the Twitter Blue web promo page in March, only 116,000 signed up; Blue is used by less than 1% of monthly users  —  Twitter Inc. is struggling to sell users on its new subscription product, Twitter Blue, according to a new report.

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Nintendo and Sony embracing direct-to-audience streams, added to the pandemic, led to E3’s demise; fan conventions and networking events have survived the shift (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)

Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: Nintendo and Sony embracing direct-to-audience streams, added to the pandemic, led to E3’s demise; fan conventions and networking events have survived the shift  —  These days, video game companies can just promote their hardware and new releases via prepackaged livestreams.  Why would they bother with a trade show?

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As AI chatbots explode, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in languages other than English, like German and Arabic (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As AI chatbots explode, Helsinki-based Silo AI and other European startups race to improve responses in languages other than English, like German and Arabic  —  Companies aim to improve response quality after criticism of reliance on small group of mostly US participants

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Q&A with Brex co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, launching Brex travel to compete with SAP Concur and Navan, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Brex co-CEO Henrique Dubugras on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, launching Brex travel to compete with SAP Concur and Navan, and more  —  Everybody hates Concur.  Brex wants to replace it. … Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but, rather

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Germany’s Bundeskartellamt regulator designates Apple as “of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs (Rachel More/Reuters)

Rachel More / Reuters: Germany’s Bundeskartellamt regulator designates Apple as “of paramount significance for competition across markets”, opening the door to antitrust curbs  —  Germany’s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple (AAPL.O) after deciding that the U.S. tech …

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Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s account, seemingly contradicting Twitter’s own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception (Matt Novak/Forbes)

Matt Novak / Forbes: Twitter adds a “state-affiliated media” label to NPR’s account, seemingly contradicting Twitter’s own policies, which used NPR as an example of an exception  —  Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” …

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10 best practices for every MongoDB deployment

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. Its flexible data model allows you to easily store unstructured data. First released in 2009, it is the most commonly used NoSQL database. It has been downloaded more than 325 million times. MongoDB is popular with developers because it is easy to get

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Python concurrency and parallelism explained

If you program in Python, you have most likely encountered situations where you wanted to speed up some operation by executing multiple tasks in parallel or by interleaving between multiple tasks. Python has mechanisms for taking both of these approaches, which we refer to as parallelism and concurrency. In this article we’ll detail the differences

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