Best of Tech News — December 2023
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freeCodeCamp·2y
Learn English for Developers – freeCodeCamp A2 English Curriculum
freeCodeCamp is developing an English for Developers curriculum to help non-native English speakers improve their language skills and career potential in the tech industry. The curriculum follows the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference and focuses on vocabulary useful for developers. It includes interactive lessons and dialogues, with plans for future levels. The community can get involved by volunteering or becoming a monthly supporter of freeCodeCamp's charity.
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Hacker News·2y
Google AI for Developers
Google AI offers developers a range of tools and technologies to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning in their projects. It brings benefits such as enhanced functionality, improved user experience, and automation. However, developers may also face challenges and limitations when working with Google AI.
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daily.dev·2y
2023 is finally over, let’s wrap it up!
daily.dev reflects on the year 2023 and highlights the launch of Squads and the development of daily.dev Search as significant milestones. They also mention raising a seed round of $11M and express gratitude towards the community. They aim to continue building a home for a new developer culture.
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InfoWorld·2y
The best new features in Microsoft .NET 8
Microsoft .NET 8 has arrived with a plethora of new features and enhancements. Highlights include improvements in the garbage collector, JSON serialization and deserialization, time abstraction, cryptography, compression, native AOT compilation, code generation, and performance. Additional resources are available for further reading.
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DeepMind·2y
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model
Gemini is Google's largest and most capable AI model, optimized for different sizes: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. It has state-of-the-art performance across many benchmarks and is designed to be natively multimodal, able to understand and operate across different types of information. Gemini's capabilities include sophisticated reasoning, understanding text, images, audio, and even generating high-quality code in programming languages. It was trained using Google's AI-optimized infrastructure and designed with responsibility and safety at the core. Gemini is being rolled out in Google products and will be available for developers and enterprise customers via the Gemini API.
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