The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild
Read moreWhy use hash puzzles for proof-of-work?
A couple days ago I wrote about the the problem that Bitcoin requires to be solved as proof-of-work. In a nutshell, you need to tweak a block of transactions until the SHA256 double hash of its header is below a target value [1]. Not all cryptocurrencies use proof of work,
Read moreMoratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
Read moreLinkedIn CEO says AI writing assistant is not as popular as expected
While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.
Read moreLast day to save on your TechCrunch All Stage pass — prices go up tonight
It’s now or never — this is your final day to lock in savings for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston. Prices increase tonight, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been thinking about attending, now’s the time to commit. Register here. TC All Stage brings together
Read moreEuropean leaders worry they’re too reliant on U.S. tech
European governments may be reconsidering their use of American technology and services, according to a new report in The New York Times.
Read moreCartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade
Read moreWeek in Review: Meta reveals its Oakley smart glasses
Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots in store for you today, including Wix’s latest acquisition, Meta’s new smart glasses, a look at the new Digg, and much more. Have a great weekend! Smart specs: Meta and Oakley have teamed up on a new pair of smart glasses that can
Read more2 days left to save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass
Time is almost up! Regular bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage ends this Sunday, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 2 days left to lock in savings of up to $210 on your ticket to one of the ultimate founder events of the summer. TC
Read moreMinimize squared relative error
Suppose you have a list of positive data points y1, y2, …, yn and you wanted to find a value α that minimizes the squared distances to each of the y‘s. Then the solution is to take α to be the mean of the y‘s: This result is well known
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