Last week I introduced the topic of artificial intelligence and technological singularities, and why they remain grounded more in fantasy than reality. We continue on that discussion today.
You've probably heard of Google's recent push for their indoor mapping product Project Tango -- they are probably the most notable company making forays into this technology, though they are hardly the first. Digital wayfinding is a new and booming industry, and it is prepared to push the boundaries on how people interact with and navigate spaces.
Over a decade ago, as a high school student, I wrote a paper entitled: Technological Singularity and the Tomorrow-land of Today.
Cheesy, I know.
Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, has announced that they are shutting down Firefox OS. The smartphone-oriented operating system has been first publicly demonstrated in February 2012, and it took another year before it was actually shipped to customers.
It’s not unusual to travel the country and see the same sights from coast to coast: a mall might have many of the same stores, a food court might have the same staples. A pharmacy on one end of the country will generally stock the same items in more or less the same order as a pharmacy on the other end of the country. Consistency is key in chain business.
In development, projects ready for client use are called “shippable.” The name sounds nice – it can ship to the client, it’s going to be used – but being shippable does not constitute being done, certainly not to a development team.
I am a QA for a digital wayfinding company –– a world away from WM Studios in scope, despite our shared status as tech companies. QA means quality assurance, but the people charged with maintaining such a thing are called QAs, too. It sounds funny like that: “I am a quality assurance.” My job is to comb through applications and code and development and front-ends and back-ends (ha!) and make sure it all functions nicely. I love my company. I also have complicated feelings about my work.
Being in the industry for so long, our business has honed itself to become one of the best of quality and systems service providers out there.
OpenAI announced this week the integration of its latest image generation model, DALL·E 3, directly into ChatGPT.
Create your own Pocket sized blockchain in JavaScript
In this article, we’ll explore how we can create a nano sized blockchain with JavaScript. In fact we’ll be using less than 30 lines of code to achieve this.
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