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With the help of your website, which serves as a strong communication tool, you can connect with customers worldwide and promote your brand around-the-clock. A required return on investment is not guaranteed by all websites, though (ROI). The main decision to make is between a custom-designed website and a website template.

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Move To A Darker Place

This is a story of Man Vs. Machine.

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Last March, my father attempted to file his Taxes.

My beloved father is a Boomer. Unlike most Boomers, my father is rather handy with technology because he was one of the people that had a not-insignificant hand in Developing a hell of a lot of it. He was studying Computer Science at Cal Poly before the computer science degree existed. I have many fond childhood memories of skipping through the aisles of various electronic and computer part warehouses while Dad described something that either terrified the staff or made them worship him as a God.  He taught himself how to use his smartphone.  Internationally.

So when he saw the option to file digitally with the IRS through the “ID.me” program, he leapt at the chance to celebrate the Federal Government finally entering the Digital Age.

It was all going swimmingly for about six hours, until he was ready to file and the system told him that it needed to verify his identity. 

“Very Well.” said my father, a man unafraid of talking to himself and getting something out of the conversation. “It wouldn’t do for me to get someone else’s return.”

The System told him that it needed him to take a “Digital Image ID”.

a.k.a: A Selfie.

“A-ha!” Dad beams. Dad is very good at taking selfies. He immediately pulled out his phone, snapped one, and tried to upload it.

Please log into your Id.me Account and use the provided app to submit your Digital Image ID. The System clarified.

“Oh. You should have said so.”  Dad pouted, but used his phone to log onto the ID.me account, do the six security verification steps and double-checked that the filing looked the same as it did on the desktop, gave the IRS like nine permissions on his phone, and held up the camera to take his Federal Privacy Invasion Selfie.

Please align your face to the indicated grid. Said The System, pulling up a futuristic green-web-of-polygons approximation.

“Ooh, very Star Trek. Gene Roddenberry would HATE this!” Dad said cheerfully, aligning his face to the grid.  My father is a bit… cavalier, when it comes to matters of personal information and federal government, because he’s been on FBI watchlists since the late 60’s when he was protesting The Vietnam War and Ronald Regan before he’d broken containment. Alas.

Anyway, there is very little information the federal government does not have on him already, but he’s as good at stalking the FBI as they are at stalking him, and had worked out a solution:  He has something approaching a friendship with the local Federal Agent (Some guy named “Larry”. Allegedly), and got Larry hooked on Alternative Histories and Dad’s collection of carefully-researched “there is very likely buried treasure here” stories, and Larry is loath to bother his favorite Historical Fanfiction author too much.

But I digress.

After thinking for a minute, The System came back with an Error Message. Please remove glasses or other facial obstructions.

And here is where the real trouble began.

See, my father wears glasses that do substantially warp the appearance of his face, because he is so nearsighted that he is legally blind without them. His natural focal point is about 4 inches in front of his nose.  While Dad can still take a selfie because he (approximately) knows where his phone is if it’s in his hand, he cannot see the alignment grid.

He should ask someone to take it for him! I hear the audience say. Yes, that would be the sane and reasonable thing to do, but Dad was attempting to do taxes at his residence in Fort Collins, while his immediate family was respectively in Denver, Texas and Canada.  He tried calling our neighbors, who turned out to be in Uganda.

He looked down at the dog, Arwen, and her little criminal paws that can open doorknobs, but not operate cell phones.

She looked back at him, and farted.

“Well, I’ll give it a try, but if it gives me too much trouble, I’ll call Larry, and Larry can call the IRS about it.” Dad told her. 

She continued to watch him. Arwen is an Australian Kelpie (a type of cattle-herding dog), going on 14 years old, deaf as a post and suffering from canine dementia now, but she still retains her natural instinct to Micromanage. She was also trained as a therapy dog, and even if she can’t hear my dad, still recognizes the body language of a man setting himself up for catastrophe.

So, squinting in the late afternoon light next to the back door, Dad attempted to line his face up with a grid he could only sort-of see, and took A Federal Selfie.

The System thought about it for a few moments.

Image Capture Failed: Insufficient Contrast. The System replied. Please move to a darker place.

“...Huh.” Dad frowned. “Alright.”

He moved to the middle of his office, away from the back door, lit only by the house lighting and indirect sunlight, and tried again.

Image Capture Failed. Please move to a darker place.

“What?” Dad asked the universe in general.

“Whuff.” Arwen warned him against sunk costs.

Dad ignored her and went into the bathroom, the natural habitat of the selfie. Surely, only being lit by a light fixture that hadn’t been changed since Dad was attempting to warn everyone about Regan would be suitably insufficient lighting for The System.  It took some negotiating, because that bathroom is “Standing Room Only” not “Standing And Holding Your Arms Out In Front Of You Room”.  He ended up taking the selfie in the shower stall.

As The System mulled over the latest attempt, Arwen shuffled over and kicked open the door to watch.

Image Capture Failed. Please Move to a Darker Place.

“Do you mean Spiritually?” Dad demanded.

“Whuff.” Arwen cautioned him again.

Determined to succeed, or at least get a different error message that may give him more information, Dad entered The Downstairs Guest Room.  It is the darkest room in the house, as it is in the basement, and only has one legally-mandated-fire-escape window, which has blinds.  Dad drew those blinds, turned off the lights and tried AGAIN.

Image Capture Failed. Please Move To A Darker Place.

“DO YOU WANT ME TO PHOTOGRAPH MYSELF INSIDE OF A CAVE??” Dad howled. 

“WHUFF!” Arwen reprimanded him from under the pull-out bed in the room. It’s where she attempts to herd everyone when it’s thundering outside, so the space is called her ‘Safety Cave’.

Dad frowned at the large blurry shape that was The Safety Cave.

“Why not?” he asked, the prelude to many a Terrible Plan.  With no small amount of spiteful and manic glee, Dad got down onto the floor, and army-crawled under the bed with Arwen to try One Last Time. Now in near-total darkness, he rolled on his side to be able to stretch his arms out, Arwen slobber-panting in his ear, and waited for the vague green blob of the Facial grid to appear.

This time, when he tapped the button, the flash cctivated.

“GOD DAMN IT!” Dad shouted, dropping the phone and rubbing his eyes and cursing to alleviate the pain of accidentally flash-banging himself. Arwen shuffled away from him under the bed, huffing sarcastically at him.

Image Capture Failed. Please move to a darker place.

“MOTHERFU- hang on.” Dad squinted.  The System sounded strange. Distant and slightly muffled.

Dad squinted really hard, and saw the movement of Arwen crawling out from under the bed along the phone’s last known trajectory.

“ARWEN!” Dad shouted, awkwardly reverse-army crawling out from under the bed, using it to get to his feet and searching for his glasses, which had fallen out of his pocket under the bed, so by the time he was sighted again, Arwen had had ample time to remove The Offending Device.

He found her out in the middle of the back yard, the satisfied look of a Job Well Done on her face. She did not have the phone. 

“Arwen.” Dad glared. It’s a very good glare. Dad was a teacher for many years and used it to keep his class in order with sheer telepathically induced embarrassment, and his father once glared a peach tree into fecundity.  

Arwen regarded him with the casual interest a hurricane might regard a sailboat tumbling out of its wake. She is a force of nature unto herself and not about to be intimidated by a half-blind house ape.  She also has cataracts and might not be able to make out the glare.

“I GIVE UP!” Dad shouted, throwing his hands in the air and returning to the office to write to the IRS that their selfie software sucks ass. Pleased that she had gotten her desired result, Arwen followed him in.

To Dad’s immense surprise, the computer cheerfully informed him that his Federally Secure Selfie had been accepted, and that they had received and were now processing his return!

“What the FUCK?” Dad glared. “Oh well. If I’ve screwed it up, Larry can call me.”

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I bring this up because recently, Dad received an interesting piece of mail.

It was a letter from the IRS, addressed to him, a nerve-wracking thing to recessive at the best of times.  Instead of a complaint about Dad’s Selfie Skills, it was a letter congratulating him on using the new ID.me System.  It thanked him for his help and expressed hopes he would use it again next year, and included the selfie that The System had finally decided to accept.

“You know, my dad used to complain about automation.” Dad sighed, staring at the image. “Incidentals my boy!  My secretary saves the state of California millions of dollars a year catching small errors before they become massive ones! He’d say. Fought the human resources board about her pay every year.  I used to think he was overestimating how bad machines were and underestimating human error, but you know? He was right.”

He handed me the image.

My father was, technically, in the image.  A significant amount of the bottom right corner is taken up by the top of his forehead and silver hair.  Most of the image, the part with the facial-recognition markers on it, was composed of Arwen’s Alarmed and Disgusted Doggy face.

“Oh no!” I cackled. “Crap, does this mean you have to call the IRS and tell them you’re not a dog?”

“Probably.” Dad sighed. “I know who I’m gonna bother first though.” he said, taking out his phone (Dad did find his phone a few hours after Arwen absconded with it when mom called and the early spinach started ringing). 

“Hey Larry!” Dad announced to the local federal agent. “You’re never gonna believe this. My dog filed my taxes!”

Larry considered this for a moment. “Is this the dog that stole my sandwich? Out of my locked  car?” he asked suspiciously.

“The very same.” Dad grinned.

“Hm. Clever Girl.” Federal Agent Larry sighed. “I figured it was only a matter of time before she got into tax fraud.”

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Meta announced today that it will offer people a tool called AI Studio to build virtual characters with custom personalities, traits, and interests—including ones based on their own personalities. If you're a creator, you'll also be able to have your digital doppelgänger interact with fans in the DMs.

“Every creator can build an AI version of themselves or an assistant that their community can interact with,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a SIGGRAPH conference fireside chat with Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of today’s artificial intelligence boom thanks to its all-important GPU chips.

Meta says AI Studio will start rolling out to Instagram Business account users today and will be made available to all Meta users in the US over the next few weeks. The tool will be accessible at ai.meta.com/ai-studio and through the Instagram app, but it also will be possible to access the chatbots through WhatsApp, Messenger, and the web.

Zuckerberg said that he expects users to create custom AI chatbots for entertainment or as personal support tools—for example, role-playing how to ask for a raise or navigate an argument with a friend. “You can basically role-play that and see how the conversation will go, and get feedback on it,” he said.

The company says AI Studio will let users limit who their chatbots interact with and prevent them from discussing certain topics. The AI Studio usage policy prohibits users from representing real persons other than themselves. It would also place off limits historical persons, religious figures, mass murderers, or “objects that could be considered hateful, explicit or illegal.”

In a blog post, Meta touted several chatbots built by celebrities, including “Eat Like You Live There!” a chatbot for dining recommendations made by chef Marc Murphy, and “What Lens Bro,” a bot for photography made by photographer Angel Barclay. It said that several Instagram personalities—Chris Ashley, Violet Benson, Don Allen, and Kane Kallaway—had made chatbot versions of themselves.

Meta's AI Studio handbook says that users can customize a chatbot by providing a detailed description, along with a name and image, and then specifying how it should respond to specific input. Llama will then draw on those instructions to improvise its responses. Meta says Instagram users can “customize their AI based on things like their Instagram content, topics to avoid, and links they want it to share.”

Over the past year, Meta has become an AI success story thanks to its decision to offer robust AI models for free. Last week, the company released a powerful version of its large language model Llama, providing developers, researchers, and startups with free access to a model comparable to the powerful paid model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says its new chatbots are all based on the latest version of Llama.

And yet Meta has struggled to find the right tone and niche for its own AI offerings. Last September, the company launched a range of AI chatbots loosely based on real celebrities. These included a fantasy role-play dungeon master bot based on Snoop Dogg, a wisecracking sports bot based on Tom Brady, and an everyday companion inspired by Kendall Jenner.

These bots failed to become big hits, however, and Meta has retired them. Jon Carvill, a spokesman for Meta, said the company had learned from the earlier experiments. “AI Studio is an evolution,” he said.

There is plenty of evidence that users may find fully customizable bots more compelling. A company called Character AI, founded by several ex-Google employees who helped make breakthroughs in AI, has attracted millions of users to its own custom chatbots.

Zuckerberg also touted other new open source AI advances from Meta at SIGGRAPH, held in Denver this year. The company has developed a new tool for identifying the contents of images and video called Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2. The previous version is widely used for image analysis. Meta says SAM 2 could be used to more efficiently analyze the contents of video, for instance. Zuckerberg showed off the technology tracking the cattle roaming his Kauai ranch. “Scientists use this stuff to study coral reefs and natural habitats and evolution of landscapes,” he told Huang.

Earlier in the day, in an on-stage interview with WIRED’s Lauren Goode, Huang said he would “absolutely” want a “Jensen AI” that knows everything he’s ever said, written, and done. “You’ll be able to prompt it, and hopefully something smart gets said,” he said. He could force stock analysts to pepper the bot—instead of him—with questions about the company. “That’s the first thing that has to go,” he said with a laugh.

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Epic Stories: 2022 picks to check out

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America. As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.

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Scorpica by G.R. Macallister

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom begins to turn on each other—and new threats to each nation rise from within. Uniting the stories of women from across the queendoms, this propulsive, gripping epic fantasy follows a warrior queen who must rise from childbirth bed to fight for her life and her throne, a healer in hiding desperate to protect the secret of her daughter’s explosive power, a queen whose desperation to retain control leads her to risk using the darkest magic, a near-immortal sorcerer demigod powerful enough to remake the world for her own ends—and the generation of lastborn girls, the ones born just before the Drought, who must bear the hopes and traditions of their nations if the queendoms are to survive.

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The Bucket List family, Garrett and Jessica Gee, journey from college friendship

The Bucket List Family, led by Garrett and Jessica Gee, along with their children Dorothy, Manilla, and Calihan, has become a prominent name in the travel and lifestyle sphere. Garrett’s entrepreneurial journey began with a serendipitous encounter during a service mission to Vladivostok, Russia, in 2009. There, he met Jessica. Although their initial meeting in a flower shop was brief, their romance blossomed later at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.

At BYU, Garrett not only played for the soccer team but also showcased his entrepreneurial spirit by developing his first app, Scan, during his freshman year. This venture marked the beginning of his career as a tech innovator.

Jessica, originally from Denver, Colorado, had travelled to Vladivostok for a mission trip at the age of 21. This experience sparked her passion for service and exploring new cultures, leading her to a career in online marketing and web development.

Their lives converged, leading them to a shared journey of growth and adventure. Choosing to sell their belongings, Garrett and Jessica embarked on a global adventure with their children, creating The Bucket List Family and inspiring others with their journey of exploration and intentional living.

[patrickfjkdoreen]

App Developers in Denver

Promoting Denver's "App Development" as the new "Silicon Valley"

Denver has established itself as the fourth-best tech hub for starting a firm, making it the 10th largest tech market in the United States. Denver has a "start-up, scale-up, grow up" ecosystem to support entrepreneurs.

The Mile-High City has skillfully achieved a delicate balance between its rapid growth and vibrant culture. However, Denver's highly educated population, tax breaks, well-maintained infrastructure, and low cost of living are what make the city a business-friendly location. Lyft, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Apple are just a few of the high-profile digital giants that have relocated to the city since 2010.

As a custom software game development companies, 299webmarketing is excited to share its knowledge with Denver's startup and tech communities. You can depend on us to be your committed partner in app development who understands your vision and helps you through various stages of the lifecycle of an app.

Denver's top app developers

The majority of Denver-based software development firms that specialise in mobile app development do not have a cross-platform approach. Among the many development issues you could encounter when developing an iOS or Android app in Denver is not being able to develop or even understand the realtime processes required by your project.

Digital trends are growing even more quickly than technology. It is essential to use new technologies and tech stacks in such situations. Our Denver app developers at 299Webmarketing are aware of the innovation strategies that the development of technology may bring about at any given time. As a result, we constantly discuss the drawbacks of evolving technology and how we can use them to your benefit to create mobile applications that are both future-proof and filled with original ideas. On the client side, we don't merely provide visually beautiful apps. In order to guarantee good internal efficiency and keep your mobile application one step ahead of the competition, we also understand how the kernels of iOS and Android work.

Build an Idea at an incredible cost without compromising quality or cross-platform compatibility, with specific features or room for the future extension. We address issues in our money and offer a money-back guarantee with no worries if you don't get what we promised and what you expected. You may rely on us to be your dependable, committed partner in app development. We will help you navigate through various app development lifecycle stages and comprehend your goals.

Discover and Plan

You learn about the utilisation of each app feature's successes and failures from the 'Discovery' phase. Additionally, we provide a dedicated Customer Success Manager to each customer who develops a plan with weekly sprint meetings that speeds up your project, encourages teamwork, increases transparency, and lowers technical debt.

study and ideation

User research supporting your mobile application comprises contextual interviews, usability testing, parallel design, and other techniques. These methods provide you with a fair appraisal of the concepts we teach and lay the groundwork for improvement right away.

Drafting and prototyping

After presenting all of the options, it's time to make it visually appealing! You get a dynamic sketch of the user experience for each functionality. You can engage with the finished product by using these middle-fidelity to high-fidelity visual designs that are created from these low-fidelity layouts.

Post-Release Support and Development

Every stage of the development and quality assurance lifecycle is involved with a continuous delivery approach.  thorough roadmap is provided, with milestones marked at various time intervals. Our teams are able to stay on task and provide frequent feedback as a result of this. Beyond the first release of your application, you will also get our complete support.

[toptaltech]

Live Stream Ready: Apple's WWDC Keynote

Apple's WWDC keynote starts tomorrow, June 10th, promising a reveal of upcoming software advancements. Tune in at 10:00 AM PT for a first look at iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and potentially new macOS and watchOS updates. The focus will be on empowering developers with the latest tools, but rumors of surprise hardware announcements linger. Take advantage of this glimpse into Apple's software roadmap for the year ahead.

What is WWDC?

What is WWDC? Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference showcases new software and technologies for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and more. It primarily aims at developers and offers them the tools to create innovative apps. 

But Apple’s WWDC keynote, happening tomorrow, June 10th, at 10:00 AM PT, is a must-watch for everyone. Tune in for exciting reveals about iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and potentially new hardware surprises!

When is WWDC 2024?

Can't wait to see what Apple unveils at WWDC 2024? Mark your calendars! The conference starts tomorrow, June 10th, and runs through June 14th. But the real excitement happens on day one with the keynote address. 

Set your alarms for 10:00 AM PT (or look up the corresponding time in your zone) to witness the unveiling of next-generation software—think iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and possibly more! Buckle up for a glimpse into the future of Apple's technology.

How do I watch WWDC 2024?

Apple's WWDC 2024 keynote is almost here! Take advantage of the future unfolding. Catch the live stream on June 10th at 10:00 a.m. PT (check your local time!). Apple's got you covered: head to their website, fire up the Apple TV app or visit their YouTube channel. It's showtime for the latest iOS and iPadOS, and maybe even some hardware surprises!

You can watch the WWDC 2024 keynote event using one of the methods outlined below. The live stream will start at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time from ‌Apple Park‌ in Cupertino, California. We have a complete list of when the event will begin in other time zones in the United States and worldwide.

Honolulu, Hawaii -- 7:00 a.m. HAST

Anchorage, Alaska -- 9:00 a.m. AKDT

Cupertino, California -- 10:00 a.m. PDT

Phoenix, Arizona -- 10:00 a.m. MST

Vancouver, Canada -- 10:00 a.m. PDT

Denver, Colorado -- 11:00 a.m. MDT

Dallas, Texas -- 12:00 noon CDT

New York, New York -- 1:00 p.m. EDT

Toronto, Canada -- 1:00 p.m. EDT

Halifax, Canada -- 2:00 p.m. ADT

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- 2:00 p.m. BRT

London, United Kingdom -- 6:00 p.m. BST

Berlin, Germany -- 7:00 p.m. CEST

Paris, France -- 7:00 p.m. CEST

Cape Town, South Africa -- 7:00 p.m. SAST

Helsinki, Finland -- 8:00 p.m. EEST

Istanbul, Turkey -- 8:00 p.m. TRT

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- 9:00 p.m. GST

Delhi, India -- 10:30 p.m. IST

Jakarta, Indonesia -- 12:00 a.m. WIB next day

Shanghai, China -- 1:00 a.m. CST the next day

Singapore -- 1:00 a.m. SGT next day

Perth, Australia -- 1:00 a.m. AWST the next day

Hong Kong -- 1:00 a.m. HKT next day

Seoul, South Korea -- 2:00 a.m. KST next day

Tokyo, Japan -- 2:00 a.m. JST the next day

Adelaide, Australia -- 2:30 a.m. ACST the next day

Sydney, Australia -- 3:00 a.m. AEST the next day

Auckland, New Zealand -- 5:00 a.m. NZST the next day

Apple Intelligence (AI) Takes Flight:

Apple's primary focus is introducing a comprehensive AI system deeply integrated into its major apps and features across the iPhone 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS 15 ecosystems.

Here are the biggest AI features the tech giant is about to announce:

AI summarizations: 

Apple is developing features that allow users to summarize articles and web pages in Safari quickly. They can summarize meeting notes, text messages, and emails.

Apple catch-up feature:

 Apple is also developing a catch-up feature for missed notifications, allowing users to quickly absorb what they missed without looking at their phones.

AI responds:

The iPhone will be able to automatically generate fully fleshed-out responses to emails and text messages on behalf of the user.

AI-powered Siri:

 Siri users can control individual app features and actions precisely for the first time. For example, users can instruct Siri to delete an email, edit a photo, or summarize a news article.

X-code: 

Apple’s app-development software is also getting a significant AI infusion. It will function similarly to Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, which can automatically complete code for programmers.

Apple is putting all the AI features under the brand Apple Intelligence.

Toptal Tech: The leader in tech talent

They are calling all tech enthusiasts! Toptal Tech, the leader in tech talent, is buzzing with anticipation for Apple's WWDC keynote tomorrow, June 10th. Get ready to be inspired by the future at 10:00 AM PT. Tune in for groundbreaking iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 reveals, alongside potential new developer tools and—who knows?—maybe even a surprise hardware announcement. 

Toptal Tech experts are primed to leverage these advancements and create the next generation of groundbreaking apps. Don't miss this peek into the future of technology!

Conclusion:

That's a wrap on the Apple WWDC keynote! We've been treated to a glimpse into the future with previews of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and potentially more. Developers are undoubtedly itching to get their hands on the new tools, and the rumor mill churns for any surprise hardware reveals. Whether you're a developer or a tech enthusiast, the future of Apple is looking bright. Stay tuned for further details and analyses—the excitement is just beginning!

[techadventuress]

Ibotta confidently submitted an S-1 filing with the SEC on March 22 with the intent to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The 13-year-old cash-back startup looks to make its public debut after turning profitable and recording impressive revenue growth in 2023.

The company reported $320 million in revenue in 2023, up 52% from 2022 when it produced $210 million in revenue. Ibotta’s gross profits grew 68% from 2022, $164.5 million, to 2023, $276 million.

The Denver-based company started as an app for consumers to get cash back on purchases through Ibotta’s brand partnerships. The company has since expanded into building back-end software for reward programs for enterprise customers including Exxon, Shell and Walmart.

Ibotta’s move into B2B2C — selling to companies that then use those products to sell to consumers — is likely a key reason why investors may be interested in this IPO, says Nicholas Smith, a senior equity research analyst at Renaissance Capital, a research firm focused on pre-IPO and IPO-focused ETFs. Selling to companies also likely played a big role in Ibotta’s recent financial gains.

“The fact that [Ibotta] has become, with Walmart, more of an enterprise software play, basically being the back-end for its Walmart cash rewards program, that lends more credence to it,” Smith said. “[Compared to] ‘Hey we have this app and we need to grow users and continue down that avenue.'”

The company started building its enterprise program, known as Ibotta performance network (IPN), back in 2020. Its partnership with Walmart also started in 2020 but expanded its IPN partnership with the retail giant in 2022. According to the S-1, this partnership plays a big role in Ibotta’s revenue boost.

“Our revenue growth significantly accelerated with the addition of new publishers to the IPN,” according to the S-1. “Most recently, the rollout of our offers on the digital property of Walmart has attracted larger audiences, and in turn, resulted in greater spend by CPG brands and a greater number of redeemed offers. These developments have increased our scale, growth, and profitability.”

[innonurse]

Health IT: Customer support software maker BirchAI acquired by Sagility

- By InnoNurse Staff -

BirchAI, a Seattle-based startup that develops software to facilitate customer support for healthcare organizations, revealed on Tuesday that it had been purchased by Sagility, a Denver-based health-tech company.

Read more at GeekWire

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[heart-hammer]

Menver Pt. 1: Rock Guys

Living in “Menver” is terrible and I love it.

Denver is the land of single men. When you live here, you run into a lot of them. Like, a lot. So many in fact that you start to categorize them into specific types.

One of those types are Rock Guys. Rock Guys are fucking everywhere.

Rock Guys aren’t Crystal Guys. Crystal Guys went to design school and journal every morning. Rock Guys are different.

For one thing, Rock Guys don’t buy their rocks. Every piece in a Rock Guy’s collection was pulled from the ground by their own hands, and they’ll tell you about when and where it happened for as long as you’re willing to listen. Sometimes longer.

Rock Guys think people who pay for rocks are silly. Rock Guys think people who pay for anything are silly because Rock Guys are Facebook-Marketplace, dumpster-dive-on-a-hot-Saturday-afternoon, haggle-until-blue-in-the-face frugal.

Rock Guys have trade jobs. They work with their hands. They mountain bike. They dress like they’re between housing situations. They carry Bowie knives everywhere, even to brunch spots, and you just sort of have to be cool with that because Rock Guys are incredibly stubborn.

You know those kids who were super into dinosaurs in kindergarten? Some of them grew up to be Rock Guys. The kids who could name every Pokémon got degrees in Computer Science and invested in crypto and the kids who knew a lot about insects developed prescription pill addictions.

Anyway, back to Rock Guys: You’ll meet them at a dog park and invite them over and they’ll bring rocks. This one was originally from upstate New York. He brought Herkimer diamonds in a Ziploc bag and larger pieces of quartz wrapped in old newspaper. He was tall and lean and standoffish. I was nervous in his presence, which was a sensation I think we both enjoyed.

He had an app that showed all the miles he’d biked. He talked about his times in relation to everyone else's, as if I wouldn’t be properly impressed without the comparison. Turns out Rock Guys sort people into categories too. There’s “Most People” and then there’s “Him”.

We didn’t date, exactly. Rock Guys don’t really “do” commitment or labels. But we hung out for months. He cooked for me. We ate standing up. We fucked standing up. He didn’t seem to like when I knew things but also was mildly annoyed with me when I didn’t know something. It wasn’t long before I realized that he loved the dog he shared with his ex more than he could ever love me, and I was fine with that.

She’s a really good dog.

He had this way of serving up criticism dressed as unsolicited advice, like a shitty personal trainer.

“You should get better dining chairs so that you don’t have to hunch over your plate like a gremlin.” “Apologizing that much makes you seem insincere.” “He probably asked where you’re from because of all the makeup. He’s not used to seeing that from girls here.”

And like a shitty personal trainer, his opinion could only matter to me for a short time. He would say something rough and when he left my apartment I would think, ‘God, is that what he really thinks of me?’ and then 25 minutes and a slice of apple tart later I’d be staring at photos of him shirtless and all (well, not ALL but most) would be forgotten.

We fell out of touch, which was more his doing than mine. I didn’t pursue him. Rock Guys are fast, man. Once they get rolling downhill they just don’t stop.

I still keep some of the rocks he gifted me on my bookshelf. I like looking at them. They remind of hard, fond moments.

[ahom-technologies]

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