Friday: An Android app gives analytics for your life. [Alpha Invites]

Do you remember what you did in Las Vegas? Probably not, butFridaydoes. Happen to recall where you were when you took the picture of your friend laughing so hard that they blew Diet Coke out of their nose? Friday does. Friday is an application that runs on your Android device. It runs in the background, keeping stock of everything that happens on your phone. You can think of it as a personal journal of your daily events, but we like to see it as analytics for your life....

3 min · 484 words · Christopher Fletcher Jr.

Fring’s new beta brings group video calling to mobile [Invites]

If you’ve not yet usedFring, you’re already missing out. It’s an absolute essential for me on my Android, and I really liked the iOS version, too. The newest version of Fring, though, really takes things up a notch. Even though it’s still in beta, the developers of Fring wanted to give you a chance to play with the newest feature — Group video calls. And we’re not just talking FaceTime. Fring’s group video calling will work over 3G, 4G and of course WiFi…oh and it works on Android....

2 min · 283 words · Amber Goodwin

From bane to boon, the rise of Bluetooth

It wasn’t long ago that I went on a bit of a dream session rant (which you canread here) about how mobile devices could be used to increase your overall quality of health. At the time I brought about the idea of having a WiFi orBluetoothconnected home that would allow you to weigh yourself, have information stored across a network with an application that would then interface to give you a better picture of what your diet should be for the day....

7 min · 1299 words · Kevin Stanley

From cybersecurity to the cloud, these IT learning course packages are all available for under $30

TLDR:These nine course collections will expand any learner’s understanding of web security, the cloud, devops, and more, all at an extra 60 percent off their already discounted prices. Rust never sleeps…and neither does the web. That’s why every year is marked by new technologies and new fields of expansion on the web that open the world to new ways of thinking — and each of those new ideas brings in new blood to start expanding those areas....

5 min · 969 words · Ruth Dickson

From Elon’s mind to Bill Gate’s wallet: How GPT-3 ended up on Azure

Microsoft recentlyannouncedit will soon offer ‘invitation only’ access to GPT-3 via Azure. This is a weird bit of news. We all saw it coming the moment Microsofttossed Open AI a cool $1Bfor “pre AGI technologies” (AGI,artificial general intelligence, doesn’t exist yet, so literally everything is a pre AGI tech lol). But it’s unclear exactly what this means for OpenAI going forward. Back in 2019, when the two companies inked the partnership, it seemed like OpenAI was going to beef up Azure’s backbone....

4 min · 747 words · Lee Love
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