Technology
How to go from idea to implementation
When 24-year-old Khyrie Alleyne was easy messaging her friend, the legendary Serena Williams, he had no idea that the impromptu conversation would turn into the aha moment that launched his business, SelfieFaze.
“Serena asked how I was feeling and I sent her a photo of me with a sickly sad face. She replied: “Disgusting, ugh… yuck.” At first I used to be a little bit irritated by her response. I didn’t feel bad and naturally she definitely made me laugh while I used to be hurting. Secondly, she didn’t realize that I used to be telling her I used to be sick using a personalised emoji as an alternative of the round yellow sick emoji. But before I could begin to explain my intentions, I began jumping up and down, screaming, “Oh my god, oh my god, I have to create an emoticon of anything…”
This thought led Alleyne on his entrepreneurial journey.
BLACK ENTERPRISES caught up with the Brooklyn, New York native to learn more about his journey as an entrepreneur and success coach.
Many people dream of making their very own mobile application. How did you go from idea to implementation?
I went through several phases; from concept, to layout design and name change. In fact, it was created just a couple of days before its launch on the iOS market. Here’s an outline of my design process:
- I wrote down every possible thought related to my idea (including protecting my rights) and examined it rigorously.
- I had to concentrate on one concept.
- I hired staff to create my idea. This was the toughest because I used to be scammed 3 times out of cash and services that I paid for.
Which skill was crucial to achieving your goal?
Persistence. When hope was hidden and each time failure whispered so sweetly, I believed anyway. As the clouds of darkness (negativity, hearing NO) began to form and the sunshine began to fade, I still had to look inside to shine! Finally, as an alternative of looking for revenge on those that laughed at me, doubted me, and stole from me, I knew I had to love anyway!
Did you employ investors or your personal money?
I used the cash from the waiting room as a waiter in a restaurant; postgraduate scholarship funds and was able to secure financial investments from close relations and friends.
Can you share any suggestions or lessons learned from marketing your app, working with developers, and/or encouraging people to endorse your service?
Clearly define your vision. Write it down and make certain it sticks in your mind. Finally, imagine, act, and tell yourself until it becomes second nature: “No, ‘NO’ can stop my ‘yes.’
How did you retain users engaged?
- Social Media – Use Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and hashtags all around the cyber world.
- Personal and skilled relationships – sharing with my contacts and shut family and friends via text, email, calls and meetings.
- Public Relations and Marketing – To spread awareness of my business, I even have created business cards, pop-up banners, posters, T-shirts, edibles akin to cupcakes and drinks, stickers and hats. I also used press releases and media kits to get press releases. Additionally, I even have provided speaking engagements at schools, business forums, meeting groups, churches, and other events.
Technology
Mayor of St. Louis among those targeted by racist mass texts
How BLACK ENTERPRISES as we’ve previously reported, the racist mass message was received by countless black people across the country, and among that number is the mayor of st. Louis.
According to , St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and her son were there among those who received the texts whose origins the FBI is currently trying to find out.
According to the St. Mayor’s Office Louis, Jones’ son, received the text on November 7, and the mayor received an identical email on November 9.
A spokesman for the mayor’s office released an announcement on Jones’ behalf shortly after receiving the news.
“I’m furious that anyone would think it’s okay to send messages like this to children or anyone else. I happened to be with my son when he got it, and I had seen it before, so I was ready to talk to him and tell him it was a cruel hoax. It is completely unacceptable that anyone should have to struggle with being defined as property or less than any other human being, especially in a society where black and brown people have always been treated like second-class citizens if we have been treated like citizens.” the statement reads.
The statement continued: “The undeniable fact that this news is spreading is a reminder that we still have loads of work to do to get rid of this sort of ugliness in our country. I fear it should only worsen because our nation will once more have a person at the highest of our government who time and time again belittles other people because of their race, gender or disability. “
According to the Associated Press, the messages were sent anonymously to recipients in several statesincluding New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee.
The FBI is coordinating its investigation with the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission, in addition to with federal and state law enforcement agencies.
Several officials, including FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel and Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, have indicated that text messaging constitutes a troubling use of technology.
According to the AP, in an interview, Brown stated, “This is an intimidating and threatening use of technology,” which likely violates several laws.
Phone service provider Text Now, which provides its users with phone lines that use existing infrastructure from various carriers to send and receive text messages and phone calls, said in an announcement that its service was used to send text messages.
“As part of our investigation into these messages, we have learned that they were sent via multiple carriers across the United States and we are working with partners and law enforcement to investigate this attack,” the Canadian company said.
According to Cori Faklaris, assistant professor of software and data on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the perpetrators likely purchased the information somewhere online for a low price.
“It’s the primary way most Americans communicate today,” Faklaris said. “So people who want to advertise or promote services go where the people are. Unfortunately, scammers and haters are also following suit.”
Faklaris continued: “All of this means that it may be easier than most people realize to truly accurately guess the race or ethnicity of the person associated with that phone number.” Faklaris also added that because of increased scam activity through the pandemic, that “it should be relatively easy for authorities to track down this particular attack.”
Technology
OpenAI is reportedly developing new strategies to deal with the slowdown in AI improvement
According to new report in Information.
Employees who tested the new model, codenamed Orion, reportedly found that while its performance outperformed existing OpenAI models, the improvement was lower than they noticed after switching from GPT-3 to GPT-4.
In other words, the rate of improvement appears to be slowing. In fact, Orion could be reliably higher than previous models in some areas, reminiscent of encoding.
In response, OpenAI has formed a founding team to determine how the company can proceed to improve its models in the face of a dwindling supply of new training data. These new strategies reportedly include training Orion on synthetic data produced by AI models, in addition to improving the models in the post-training process.
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. In response to previous reports about plans for its flagship model, the company said: “We have no plans to release a model codenamed Orion this year.”
Technology
FTX bankruptcy estate sues Anthony Scaramucci, FWD.us and others
She filed for bankruptcy of the cryptocurrency company FTX 23 trials Friday against Anthony Scaramucci (pictured above), his hedge fund SkyBridge Capital and other organizations including Crypto.com and the Mark Zuckerberg-backed lobbying group Fwd.us.
These lawsuits are an try to recuperate money from FTX’s creditors after the corporate went bankrupt. FTX claims that the cash at issue in these lawsuits was a part of an “influence buying campaign” by founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, conducted as the corporate was struggling to satisfy its own money flow needs.
The lawsuit states that “these ‘investments’ provided little or no benefit to the debtors and instead served only to strengthen Bankman-Fried’s position in the world of politics and traditional finance,” which he then tried to make use of as “potential sources of equity capital.” investment in FTX to fill the gap on its balance sheet and thus maintain the liquidity of its program.”
Since the corporate’s bankruptcy, FTX executives have been convicted of crimes including fraud and money laundering. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison and is currently appealing the decision.
In the case of SkyBridge and Scaramucci (a financier who briefly served as White House communications director under Donald Trump), FTX announced that it might acquire a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022, just months before FTX went bankrupt and Bankman-Frieda was arrested.
According to the lawsuit, FTX also paid $12 million to sponsor Scaramucci’s SALT conference and invested $10 million within the SkyBridge Coin Fund. In return, FTX claims that Scaramucci took Bankman-Frieda on a “whirlwind tour of the United States and the Middle East” to court potential investors, with Scaramucci “so committed to the success of Bankman-Frieda’s fundraising efforts that he loaned Bankman-Frieda Fried his own suit and tie before meetings, in order that Bankman-Fried wouldn’t show as much as essential meetings in his trademark shorts and T-shirt.”
Meanwhile, Fwd.us’ lawsuit describes payments from FTX’s sister company Alameda Research to Fwd.us as “part of FTX Insiders’ integrated scheme to siphon money from FTX Group creditors and enhance its own reputation at the expense of creditors.” “
SkyBridge and Fwd.us didn’t immediately reply to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
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