Fornay Tech Blog

The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have no moat” — and AI2 showed that today with the release of Molmo, a multimodal AI … Read more

Supabase, the open source developer platform and Postgres database service that started out as an alternative to Google’s Firebase, on Wednesday announced that it has raised an $80 million Series C round led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures. With this, Supabase has now raised a total of $196 million, including a Series B round … Read more

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, launching September 26th, is Princess Zelda’s first standalone adventure. Her debut solo outing does an excellent job of establishing Zelda as a protagonist unique and separate from that green guy. But the game’s sparse environments, formulaic dungeons, and simplistic platforming and puzzles ultimately swallow her up, making Zelda … Read more

The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy. But I have been puzzled for some time by Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and star witness of the FTX trial. Now, after her sentencing, I believe what she did is weirder and perhaps sadder. … Read more

Radian Aerospace has moved one step closer to achieving the “holy grail” of spaceflight: a reusable space plane that can take-off from an airfield and land on a runway like a conventional airplane. The startup just announced completion of a series of ground tests in Abu Dhabi earlier this summer.  The tests were completed with … Read more

“Heartstopper” Season 3: Joe Locke and Kit Connor discuss teenage vulnerability, eating disorders, and the art of saying “hi!” Source link

A few weeks ago, while cursing NJ Transit under my breath, I decided to screw it and call an Uber. I’m the sort of anxious where, once hailed, I stare at the Uber app on my phone until my driver arrives. Except this time, I didn’t have to. I pinchy pinched, and I could see … Read more

Duolingo, best known for its language-learning app, has teamed up with the instrument brand Loog to offer a beginner-friendly portable piano. The $249 Loog x Duolingo Piano is meant to complement Duolingo’s similarly gamified music course launched last year. The keyboard is essentially a co-branded version of the portable digital piano that Loog launched on … Read more

Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. But the pandemic supercharged the market. Covid pandemic lockdowns and the widespread move to work-from-home spurred brands relying on old technology to modernize their organizations. According to Statista, worldwide spending on digital transformation … Read more

What is going on with Google’s long-touted migration to an alternative adtech stack (aka its Privacy Sandbox proposal)? What indeed. The entire multi-year endeavour to reshape the commercial web looks dangerously close to being killed off after the latest intervention by the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). This comes on top … Read more