UK age check law seems to be hurting sites that comply, helping those that don’t
The U.K. recently started enforcing new age-check rules, and The Washington Post reports that it’s already having a significant effect on traffic to porn sites.
Read moreDirector Jim Jarmusch ‘disappointed and disconcerted’ by Mubi’s funding from Sequoia
Veteran indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch is the latest to criticize Mubi for taking money from Sequoia.
Read moreFTC chair warns Google about Gmail’s ‘partisan’ spam filters
FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson appears to be pursuing conservative complaints over Gmail's spam filters.
Read moreTechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Read moreAn integral theorem of Gauss
Gauss proved in 1818 that the value of integral is unchanged if x and y are replaced by (x + y)/2 and √(xy), i.e. if you replaced x and y with their arithmetic mean and geometric mean [1]. So, for example, if you wanted to compute you could instead compute Notice that the coefficients of
Read moreNvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue
Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two companies, identified in a filing as "Customer A" and "Customer B."
Read moreTaco Bell is having second thoughts about relying on AI at the drive-through
Taco Bell has apparently rolled out voice AI-powered ordering at more than 500 drive-throughs, leading to unflattering viral moments like someone ordering 18,000 water cups in order to “bypass” the AI and get connected to a human server.
Read moreI’m really impressed with this $400 portable projector
Projectors have come a long way and this portable one from Lumi offers impressive features, like Google TV and an obstacle avoidance function.
Read moreEl Salvador’s Bitcoin and Quantum Computing
The treasury of El Salvador owns over 6,000 Bitcoins. Its total holdings are currently worth roughly $700,000,000. These coins had been associated with one private key. Yesterday El Salvador announced that it would split its funds into 14 wallets in order to protect the funds from quantum computing. You can
Read moreHow quantum computing would effect Bitcoin
Bitcoin relies on two kinds of cryptography: digital signatures and hash functions. Quantum computing would be devastating to the former, but not the latter. To be more specific, the kind of digital signatures used in Bitcoin could in theory be broken by quantum computer using Shor’s algorithm. Digital signatures could
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