TechCrunch Minute: Lockheed Martin rescues satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital
Lockheed Martin is acquiring satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital, taking the smaller company private and potentially rescuing it from running out of cash while facing of serious debt. Although Terran Orbital itself wasn’t founded until 2013, its history goes back to the late ’90s, to the development of the CubeSat, which
Read moreAfrican e-commerce company Jumia completes sale of secondary shares at $99.6M
Almost two weeks ago, TechCrunch reported that African e-commerce giant Jumia was planning to sell 20 million American depositary shares (ADSs) and raise over $100 million, given its share price of around $5.70 at the time. The e-tailer has now completed the at-the-market transaction offering of 20,227,736 ADSs. Jumia sold
Read moreOnly 7 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 tickets
We’re entering the final week of discounted rates for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Save up to $600 on select individual ticket types until August 23. Join a dynamic crowd of over 10,000 attendees, startup founders and VC investors at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30. Here are just a
Read more‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games launches its app store on iOS in the EU, worldwide on Android
Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, announced on Friday that it has officially launched its rival iOS app store in the European Union. The Epic Games Store is also launching on Android worldwide. The app store is launching with games including Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys. The company
Read moreGoogle is bringing AI overviews to India, Brazil, Japan, UK, Indonesia and Mexico
After bringing AI overviews to the U.S., Google is expanding the AI-powered search summaries to six more countries: India, Brazil, Japan, the U.K., Indonesia and Mexico. These markets will also get local language support for AI overviews. The search giant is rethinking how it displays source material links, as well.
Read moreMeta draws fresh questions from EU over its CrowdTangle shut-down
The Commission is seeking more information from Meta following its decision to deprecate its CrowdTangle transparency tool. The latest EU request for information (RFI) on Meta has been made under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) — an online governance framework which empowers enforcers to punish non-compliance with fines of
Read moreThe invisible problem with sending people to Mars
Image: The Verge Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out. Sending people to Mars won’t be easy. There are the obvious challenges like getting people and supplies into space and landing them safely on another planet. And once they arrive,
Read moreHow Can SA Enterprises Enhance their Cyber Defense?
Businesses in South Africa are under increasing pressure to deliver high-quality software applications quickly and securely. Businesses in South Africa are facing growing pressure to produce quality software applications efficiently, promptly, and securely. This challenge has spurred the adoption of the DevOps methodology, which highlights the merging of development and
Read moreBen Horowitz Declares War on Michael Moritz
A social media spat between billionaire tech investors is raising questions about the journalistic independence of three-year-old news outfit SF Standard, after a reporter representing the outlet reached out to sources for a story about VC Ben Horowitz and his wife Felicia. The Standard’s sole backer is another longtime VC,
Read moreChebyshev polynomials as distorted cosines
Forman Acton’s book Numerical Methods that Work describes Chebyschev polynomials as cosine curves with a somewhat disturbed horizontal scale, but the vertical scale has not been touched. The relation between Chebyshev polynomials and cosines is Tn(cos θ) = cos(nθ). Some sources take this as the definition of Chebyshev polynomials. Other
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