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QR Code Payment Methods: How Businesses Can Simplify Transactions and Cut Costs with Open Banking

QR code payments have emerged as one of the most versatile and accessible methods for both businesses and consumers. Open banking-powered QR codes are redefining what seamless, secure, and cost-efficient...

Ever Wanted to Run a Data Engine on Kubernetes? SeaTunnel Just Made It Weirdly Simple

A how-to guide for deploying SeaTunnel in a clustered mode on Kubernetes, enabling distributed data processing with the Zeta engine as the compute backend.

This One Data Company Abandoned DataX, Upgraded to SeaTunnel, and Turbocharged Its Workflows

Li Hongjun, the R&D manager at JoyaData Communications, on why Apache SeaTunnel was chosen.

Google A2A - a First Look at Another Agent-agent Protocol

Google A2A - a first look at another agent-agent protocol and compared to Anthropic’s MCP. Well, they are very similar.

Today's Wordle answer for Thursday, April 10

Help with today's Wordle if you need it.

Electric Lunchbox

Published on April 10, 2025 2:40 AM GMT People are often a lot more interested in hot meals, and my kids are no exception. I've tried a bunch of options...

Just a button

‘American Disruption’

Ben Thompson: The problem with these tariffs is that their scale and indiscriminate nature will have the effect of destroying demand and destroying the capability to develop alternative supply. I...

Trump, Supposedly, Thinks the U.S. Has the ‘Resources’ Needed to Make iPhones

Chance Miller, writing at 9to5Mac: Ahead of that, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today that Trump firmly believes that Apple can move iPhone manufacturing to the United States....

Creative Assembly is testing a second round of AI improvements for Total War: Warhammer 3: 'We heard you loud and clear'

After that, sieges will finally get a look-in.

★ WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview

I think it’s a good start, and I couldn’t be happier that the WebKit team is even tackling the problem at all. As Simmons notes, line-wrapping layout in web browsers...

All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the...

All the headlines are following Trump’s messaging of a “pause”, but the fact is that goods imported from practically every country in the world are taxed at 10% and Chinese...

fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction: The Results

The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.

Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The...

Clean energy powered 40% of global electricity in 2024, report finds. “The milestone was powered by a boom in solar power capacity, which has doubled in the last three years.”

From Brain Embeddings to Refined Images: The MindEye2 Inference Pipeline

Refinement using base SDXL subjectively improves the quality of image outputs without strongly affecting low or high-level image metrics.

Tariffs, integrity, and chaos

Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine):[T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In...

231. When It Comes to Tariffs, China is Different

Much has been made of tariffs, but few have talked about the myriad of soft costs when it comes to international trade. Sharing my personal experience of Microsoft and the...

What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard...

What It Feels Like, Right Now. “It’s hard to focus. It’s hard to focus on the things in front of me, that I need to do. It’s hard to focus...

Image Captioning and Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL for unCLIP

The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.

Backbone, Diffusion Prior, & Submodules Explained

The study was conducted using fMRI-to-Image Reconstruction. The results were published in the journal Human Experiments. The study was published on November 13, 2013.