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Meta sparked outrage on Boxing Day when Connor Hayes, VP of Product for Generative AI, told the Financial Times the company plans to embed AI personas deeper into Facebook and Instagram. Hayes painted a future where bots would coexist alongside real users, and “be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform”. The interview drew a fresh round of criticism...

Backend, Data Science & QA Industry Insurance Our client, One of the biggest insurance brokers in the United States, has over 25 years of experience. They offer services at over 40+ locations that include auto, motorcycle, boat, life, health, pets, and other insurance services. As an insurance broker, our client als...

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. The Crypto Industry is Overlooking a Critical Factor in Ensuring Its Success By @kategrizik [ 4 Min read ] To turn people i...

OXC (JavaScript Oxidation Compiler) is a high-performance JavaScript compiler written in Rust, designed to optimize speed and scalability. It surpasses traditional tools like Babel and SWC with better memory efficiency and emerging adoption by industry leaders like Shopify and Preact. Explore its features, benefits, and the future of JavaScript development.

How does quantum consciousness define the human mind? Is there a relationship between consciousness and the mind? If so, what is this relationship and how does quantum delineate the mind from the brain, within the cranium?  Are microtubules the mind? How do they configure a smell, in contrast to a sight? How do they shape memory, differently from how they define feelings?

Optimized AI prompts—carefully crafted instructions that extract the best outputs from generative models like GPT-4—are becoming valuable business assets, with some companies treating them as potential trade secrets. This raises significant questions: Can prompts be legally protected? Should they be? While monetizing prompts makes business sense, over-commodification could stifle collaboration and creativity, turning AI’s open innovation ecosystem into a paywalled battleground. Prompts may hold...

AI agents are transforming the crypto space with their autonomy and adaptability. Projects like $GOAT and Virtuals Protocol showcase their potential, combining AI innovation with decentralized finance. MEXC exchange offers early access to AI agent tokens, paving the way for the next big crypto trend.

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 7, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Steve Jobs announced the first-generation iPad in 2009, For the first time ever, someone crossed the English Channel by air in 1785, Galileo observed t...

The Spacecoin Writing Contest offers 15,000 USDT in prizes across 3 rounds, running from Dec 2024 to Sept 2025. Writers can submit stories under general tags like #decentralized-internet, #spacetech, and #blockchain-use-case, or sponsor tags like #spacecoin, #creditcoin, and #gluwa. Topics span decentralized internet, space tech, and blockchain-powered solutions.

MEXC has officially launched its __Market Maker Recruitment Program. This initiative aims to enhance market vibrancy, significantly improve market liquidity, and provide users with an unparalleled, seamless, and exciting trading experience.

On-chain interaction with selected Open ecosystem projects will now grant users $OPEN points. List of eligible projects that can earn users $opEN points includes AISweat.Shop, Overlord.bot, Gameboi.ai, OpenDeSci Platform, with more incoming to be disclosed.

Businesses can use special data visualization tools to build trust and safety dashboards. Dashboards can assist organizations in monitoring and detecting policy violations, identifying prohibited content impressions and volume, observe attempts to bypass policy.

Advancements in financial technology have brought banks closer to unbanked consumers, and connected businesses with more customers. Looking ahead towards 2025, and beyond, a plethora of digital innovation is set to change the way customers transact, and companies conduct business. Digital data will provide financial institutions with a wealth of new opportunities.

CARV, the AI chain ecosystem to enable data sovereignty at scale, announces the official launch of the CARV SVM Chain Tested. CARV is an agentic infrastructure designed to enableData sovereignty at Scale.

As we bid farewell to 2024, there's a palpable sense of optimism in the air, particularly with the recent political changes in Tonga.

A/B testing is an indispensable method for measuring the real impact of features we develop and want to release. “before and after” analyses are often unusable due to temporal factors such as timing, campaigns, or other effects. Running multiple tests simultaneously can bring efficiency to both your planning process and product insights.

An MBA isn’t a golden ticket, but it can help you get a product management job. An MBA can help with the transition to product management. It can also open doors for you in the decision-making process.

Managing supply chains can be one of the most costly and labor-intensive hurdles for small businesses to overcome.

Digital wallets appear set to cement their position as the decade’s fastest-growing fintech innovation by becoming the world’s favorite payment option.

Surviving a product management crisis: Debugging failed integrations, rebuilding customer trust, and learning lessons in resilience, communication, and iteration.

Discover why Expo is the ultimate toolkit for React Native developers. Simplify app development with quick setup.

Automate Google Cloud security audits using Terraform and Python. Terraform ensures secure resource provisioning with best practices, while Python enables continuous auditing and custom security checks. Together, they form a scalable, proactive solution for managing cloud security, complete with real-world examples and CI/CD integrations for continuous compliance.

Blockchain oracles are becoming increasingly important in decentralized ecosystems. They act as data bridges between blockchain-based applications and the analogue world. Despite their growing importance, existing oracle networks face a number of persistent challenges.