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In the backdrop of Venezuela’s economic crisis, many, like Oskarina Fuentes, turned to platforms like Appen, an Australian data services company, to tag training data for AI algorithms. These platforms, serving tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, have become a lifeline for workers in some of the world’s cheapest labor markets. The global […]
Ubicloud provides cloud services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, OVH, or AWS Bare Metal. You can set it up yourself or use our managed service. Ubicloud is an open, accessible, and portable cloud solution that presents an alternative to mainstream public cloud providers. Drawing a parallel, it likens itself to how Linux is […]
The website “Microservice API Patterns (MAP)” offers a comprehensive collection of patterns for API design, focusing on the challenges and solutions encountered when specifying, implementing, and maintaining message-based APIs. The primary emphasis of MAP is on message representations, which are the payloads exchanged during API calls. These payloads can vary in structure based on the […]
Date: December 4, 1995 In a significant move, Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. unveiled JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language tailored for developing and customizing applications on enterprise networks and the Internet. This new scripting language complements Java, Sun’s renowned object-oriented, cross-platform programming language. The debut version of JavaScript has been integrated […]
Jen Marr, the Founder & CEO of Inspiring Comfort, discusses the increasing importance of fostering social connections in the workplace. A connected workforce is more fulfilled, engaged, and protected against burnout. However, many teams struggle to find this connection, especially in the post-pandemic world. Marr identifies four primary reasons for this disconnect: Marr emphasizes that […]
Duolingo, the popular language learning platform, has a unique growth strategy. As of early 2023, approximately 80% of its users were acquired organically without relying heavily on paid marketing. Instead, Duolingo offers a high-quality product for free, hoping that users will eventually opt for premium features. This approach has proven successful, with 7% of Monthly […]
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two distinct fields that often intersect but have different focuses, objectives, and applications. Here’s a breakdown of how they differ: 1. Definition and Focus: 2. Physical vs. Virtual: 3. Applications: 4. Interdependence: 5. Objective: While robotics and AI have different focuses, the convergence of the two fields promises exciting […]
Grafana Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. Developed by Grafana Labs, Loki is designed to be cost-effective and easy to operate. Unlike traditional log aggregation systems, Loki does not index the content of logs. Instead, it indexes a set of labels associated with each log stream, making […]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda automatically scales your application by running code responding to triggers such as changes to data in Amazon S3 buckets or updates in a DynamoDB table. It automatically manages the compute resources, ensuring the […]
A significant security vulnerability has been identified in Python’s URL parsing function. This flaw can be exploited to bypass domain or protocol filtering techniques that use a blocklist, potentially leading to unauthorized file access and command execution. The issue arises from the “urlparse” function’s inability to parse URLs that start with blank characters correctly. As […]