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Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoGitHub has put the final touches on its Arctic Code Vault with a nearly 1.5 tonne steel box covered in AI-generated etchings that aim to entice future generations to explore it. GitHub initially deposited its 21 terabyte 20 February 2020 snapshot of all public repositories shortly after the pandemic began, but none of its employees were there to witness or participate in it because of the pandemic. It left that job to local contractors. The mostly QR-encoded snapshot is stored on over…

Around 60-75% of users surveyed reported satisfaction with using Copilot, feeling less frustrated while using Copilot Generative AI models including Copilot have been at the center of debate over their efficiency and, ie., if they will put content generators and coders at peril. Cutting through the din of the noise, GitHub has attempted to quantify Copilot’s influence in improving a programmer’s productivity and happiness. Copilot, a pair programmer has predictive code functionalities to assist programmers with…

Tech giant Microsoft has created a sample app for teams that allow people to sign documents during remote meetings.According to Windows Central, the application lets users add a document to a meeting for attendees to sign, such as a purchase agreement, invoice, or NDA.Read AlsoThe sample app was made by Teams Ecosystem Engineering as a proof of concept aimed at independent software vendors (ISVs) or other customers implementing it.The entire project is available and documented on GitHub, which should help organisations…

Image: University of WashingtonThere’s more than one reason to avoid dropping your phone in the water. Not only is it catastrophic for devices that aren’t properly waterproofed, but your device will also lose most of its wireless connectivity when submerged, leaving you unable to text message friends who’ve gone overboard too, unless you download and install a new app created by researchers at the University of Washington.Although almost every new smartphone can shrug off a dunking. Butwhile submerged, most of a…

Store Your Workflow in GitHub and Execute it in a Docker ContainerHave you ever wanted to store and execute your workflow in two locations but found it difficult to do so?Image by AuthorWouldn’t it be nice if you easily store and execute your code in different locations? Prefect allows you to easily store and execute your workflows in all of the environments listed above while keeping track of all the runs in a beautiful dashboard.Image by AuthorImage by AuthorIn this article, you will learn how to store the workflow code…

Technology giant Google has launched a new bug bounty programme…

A comprehensive guide to using an EC2 instance as a server for training your Machine Learning modelImage by ThisisEngineering RAEng on UnsplashProper orchestration of a machine learning pipeline can be performed using multiple open-source tools. Github actions is one of the well-known out there. It is a built-in Github tool primarily developed to automate the development, testing, and deployment process of software.Nowadays, Machine Learning practitioners have been using it to automate the entire workflow of their…

Contrails from a Emirates Airbus A380.Photo: Martin Macak Gregor (AP)When Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall, allowing consumers to see the individual emissions created by each flight they were browsing, it received widespread attention and praise from industry leaders and climate scientists alike. But last month the tech giant quietly shiftedthe algorithm to exclude a crucial component of the overall greenhouse gas impact of air travel—meaning that emissions data on the flights it…

That’s not exactly the kind of “mixer” we’re talking about here, but crypto bros do often talk about seeing the price of their coins “go to 11.”Photo: Satheesh Sankaran (Shutterstock)Authorities claimthat founders of a “decentralized” and “open source” project run mostly by the community were making “large-scale profits” off illicit funds funneled through their platform, and now at least one founder has come face-to-face with the long arm of Dutch law enforcement.The Netherlands’ Fiscal Information and Investigation…

Credit: MicrosoftMicrosoft is making almost all of its refreshed 3D emojis available to customers to build with and on by putting them on GitHub and Figma starting today, August 10. The emojis will be fully customizable through vector files and available across all frameworks, officials said. Microsoft is taking this step in the name of the "democratization of creator experiences." Microsoft is releasing 1,538 emoji under the MIT open-source license. There are three emoji that it isn't including: Clippy and two emoji…