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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and cryptocurrencies are everywhere now, being applied in a wide range of industries. From finance to supply chain management, these technologies are driving innovation and reshaping how businesses and individuals interact. The adaptability of DLT has also caught the attention of governments worldwide, inspiring them to create platforms tailored to their unique needs.

Flixier, Synthesia, and Canva are tools that let you edit videos without Adobe Premiere. They're not trying to replace Premiere - they're trying to help people who just need to get shit done without selling a kidney. The free tiers are basic, but $10-15 a month for Flixier, Synthesia, or Canva is a lot easier to swallow than Adobe's Creative Cloud ransom demands.

This research shows Hawk and Griffin models outperform Mamba-3B and rival Llama-2, achieving strong downstream task results with fewer training tokens.

Eddie Kim and Ashwani, the visionaries behind Kaia, share their journey from traditional sectors to spearheading one of the most ambitious blockchain projects in Southeast Asia. Their story isn't just about technology—it's about bridging worlds, from international development to decentralized finance.

This research shows Griffin models outperform Transformers in validation loss and scaling efficiency, following Chinchilla scaling laws up to 14B parameters.

API documentation is critical in enabling developers to understand and utilize your API effectively. This guide walks you through adding API documentation to your Docusaurus project using the OpenAPI plugin and theme.

GoPlus Foundation unveils its $GPS token to strengthen Web3 security by decentralizing critical infrastructure and safeguarding blockchain transactions worldwide.

This research compares MQA Transformers, Hawk, and Griffin models, highlighting Griffin's hybrid approach combining recurrent blocks with local attention.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 13, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Johnny Cash performed a concert at Folsom State Prison in 1968, Wikipedia went live in 2001, SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2018, and we p...

This research presents RG-LRU, a novel recurrent layer for temporal mixing, used in Hawk and Griffin models to rival Transformers in NLP efficiency.

This research introduces Hawk and Griffin, RNN-based models that rival Transformers in efficiency, scaling, and long-sequence NLP tasks.

While AI offers efficient shortcuts to problem-solving, it changes the nature of the journey that shapes our genius.

When your target market is crowded with established players and new entrants, the challenge becomes exponentially tougher.

While Starlink has demonstrated the immediate practical benefits of satellite-based internet, emerging technology like Spacecoin is taking this concept even further.

The study involved a focus group with VazaZika developers, exploring insights on gamified software that promotes mosquito-borne disease prevention using GDEs.

Participants found GDEs’ negative effects useful for adoption, noting context sensitivity and value for developers new to gamified systems.

Participants felt confident and comfortable discussing GDEs' negative effects, agreeing they could freely share opinions during the focus group.

The focus group explored developers' views on GDEs, identifying pros like motivation and engagement, and cons like cheating, demotivation, and design complexity.

At the beginning of 2024, I started to work on a social media scheduling tool called Postiz. Little did I know it would end up making thousands every month.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 12, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Walt Disney died at the age of 65 in 1966, The impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton began in 1997, A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti...

Decentralized Internet envisions a more autonomous, citizen-driven Internet. It redistributes data across numerous nodes, where each node enforces rules through consensus. But the road to a utopian Internet has its stumbling blocks.

Project DIGITS democratizes AI computing by giving developers a powerful desktop untethered from the cloud. DIGITS is a precursor for how personal computing could fuel the uptake of AI into consumers' everyday lives.

Gameboi.AI is an AI-powered agent transforming Web3 airdrops with interactive, bot-resistant campaigns on X. Earn rewards like $OPEN points and $GMB tokens, making token distribution fun and fair.