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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 21, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From IBM Researchers Create Mini AI Model That Predicts the Future to This Web IDE Runs Your Code in the Cloud—Without Melting Your Laptop, let’s dive right in.

Can Blockchain Make AI Systems More Transparent? Share Your Thoughts to Win From $2000

TL;DR Join the #blockchain Writing Contest and share your insights on decentralized AI, cloud, or dePIN. Win up to $2,000! Contest open Feb 5–May 7, 2025.

By @hackernooncontests [ 2 Min read ]

HackerNoon and Aleph Cloud are putting decentralization in the spotlight with the #blockchain Writing Contest! With $2,000 up for grabs, we’re inviting writers, developers, and industry experts to discuss how #decentralized-ai, #decentralized-cloud, and #dePIN are transforming tech scaling, user interactions, and data management...

This Web IDE Runs Your Code in the Cloud—Without Melting Your Laptop

TL;DR The project is built on the principle of microservice architecture, which allows you to divide functionality into independent services.

By @oleksiijko [ 13 Min read ]

We will describe in detail how the main components of the system are structured, how they differ from alternative solutions and why the choice of these technologies allows achieving high performance and security.

Main components:

This project uses a microservice approach, which has a number of significant advantages:

Features:..

Are China and the U.S. Engaged in a Race Toward AI Armageddon?

TL;DR While China’s AI race is managed by the government, in the U.S., AI is primarily driven by tech giants.

By @allan-grain [ 4 Min read ]

It is becoming abundantly clear that AI is the battleground of the future. Both China and the U.S. recognize that whoever leads in AI will not only dominate commercially but will also set the geopolitical terms for the future world order.

But there are solutions...

NFT Paris 2025 Review: An Amazing Event, But Onboarding Normies? We’ve Got Work to Do

TL;DR NFT Paris 2025 review: A vibrant Web3 event showcasing NFTs, tokenization, AI, Bitcoin Ordinals and innovation—but onboarding challenges still hold us back.

By @maxo1st [ 5 Min read ]

NFT Paris 2025 brought community and innovation to life, but onboarding struggles show Web3 still has a long way to go for mass adoption.

I scanned the QR code with my multichain wallet—only to discover it didn’t support the Etherlink [5] blockchain used for minting.

Cheers, xx..

IBM Researchers Create Mini AI Model That Predicts the Future

TL;DR Researchers have developed a practical, efficient alternative to massive AI models for time series forecasting.

By @fewshot [ 6 Min read ]

Authors:

(1) Vijay Ekambaram, IBM Research;

(2) Arindam Jati, IBM Research;

(3) Nam H. Nguyen, IBM Research;

(4) Pankaj Dayama, IBM Research;

(5) Chandra Reddy, IBM Research;

(6) Wesley M. Gifford, IBM Research;

(7) Jayant Kalagnanam, IBM Research.

Abstract and 1. Introduction

2 TTM Components..

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