HiBit - Posts Posts, news and programming tutorials. Here you can discuss industry news and share your experience. https://www.hibit.dev/blog Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:00:05 +0000 en OpenAI's Sora text-to-video generator will be publicly available this year Soon, you'll have the opportunity to experience OpenAI's much-discussed text-to-video generator firsthand. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI's chief technology officer, Mira Murati, mentioned that Sora will be accessible this year, with a possibility of it being available within a few months.

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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:00:05 +0000 uncategorized post-156 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/156/comments
Laravel 11 is released Laravel 11 has been officially launched, bringing along several exciting enhancements. Among the notable updates is the requirement for a minimum PHP version of 8.2, ensuring compatibility with the latest features and optimizations. Additionally, a new Laravel Reverb package has been introduced to Laravel's suite of first-party tools. Moreover, users can expect a streamlined directory structure, contributing to a more organized and efficient development process. These advancements collectively contribute to making Laravel 11 a compelling choice for web development projects, offering improved performance, functionality, and developer experience.

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Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:35:56 +0000 news post-154 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/154/comments
Klarna AI assistant does the work of 700 people One month after expanding its OpenAI-driven virtual assistant globally, the Swedish buy-now, pay-later company has unveiled fresh data showcasing its proficiency in managing customer interactions, enhancing shopper satisfaction, and yielding improved financial outcomes. Having announced its collaboration with OpenAI early last year, Klarna positioned itself as one of the pioneers in incorporating the firm's innovative ChatGPT technology into a shopping plug-in. Initially, the natural-language interface facilitated personalized shopping decisions, described by Klarna as "smooth shopping".

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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:30:02 +0000 news post-152 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/152/comments
After a decade, Apple discontinues its electric car project After a decade of development, numerous shifts in direction and leadership, and a multitude of leaks, Apple has purportedly ceased work on its electric car. As per a Bloomberg report, the company is reallocating some staff to focus on internal generative AI projects and considering laying off others.

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Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:00:02 +0000 news post-151 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/151/comments
jQuery 4 Beta release jQuery is a fast and compact JavaScript library that simplifies tasks like editing HTML documents, handling events, and adding animations. Its user-friendly interface works well on many browsers, and it has revolutionized how millions of people write JavaScript.

jQuery 4.0.0 has been released in beta! The development team is pleased to introduce the enhancements they've been working on. This update includes bug fixes, performance enhancements, and notable changes, such as the discontinuation of support for older versions of Internet Explorer - eliminating headaches for many.

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Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:00:02 +0000 news post-147 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/147/comments
Google reduces recaptcha free tier reCAPTCHA, a service by Google designed to protect websites from spam and abuse, has been predominantly free for most sites. While enjoying the free tier limits of 1 million assessments per month, leading to near-universal implementation on millions of websites, it appears that a change is imminent starting April 1st, 2024.

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Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:00:03 +0000 news post-144 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/144/comments
Elon Musk’s Neuralink implants brain tech in human patient On Sunday, Elon Musk's neurotechnology startup Neuralink successfully implanted its device in a human for the first time. The billionaire mentioned on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday that the patient is recovering well.

The company is working on a brain implant designed to assist individuals with severe paralysis in controlling external technologies solely through neural signals. Neuralink initiated the recruitment of patients for its inaugural in-human clinical trial in the fall, following the approval granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in May to conduct the study.

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Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:55:34 +0000 news post-143 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/143/comments
Apple Vision Pro available on February Apple announced Apple Vision Pro will be available on February 2, at all U.S. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms how people work, collaborate, connect, relive memories, and enjoy entertainment. Vision Pro seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world and unlocks powerful spatial experiences in visionOS, controlled by the most natural and intuitive inputs possible - a user's eyes, hands, and voice.

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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 09:30:02 +0000 news post-139 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/139/comments
Google switching to continuous scrolling for desktop search Google is adopting continuous scrolling for desktop search results as it did for the mobile website in October 2021. Google says "you’ll now be able to see up to six pages of results" after reaching the bottom of a search results page, which is marked by a loading indicator and presumably faster than finding and clicking Next. This is meant to make things easier and it reflects the feed nature of countless modern services, though this is more common on mobile apps than desktop platforms.

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Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:26:52 +0000 news post-80 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/80/comments
Elon Musk is buying Twitter On Tuesday, representatives of the billionaire notified Twitter through a letter that he intends to move forward with the tumultuous deal, confirming earlier reports that things were back on track.

Musk and Twitter were headed to court over the deal, with the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive claiming that Twitter had misled him over the number of bots that existed on the social network. Without providing evidence of his claims, Musk has alleged that as much as 20% of Twitter's user base consisted of fake/spam accounts. Twitter has long maintained that less than 5% of its monetizable daily active users - a subset of its user base provided as a metric for advertisers - are bots. However, it now seems that Musk no longer intends to press the issue.

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Thu, 06 Oct 2022 09:33:14 +0000 news post-70 https://www.hibit.dev/rss/posts/70/comments