Pintarnya raises $16.7M to power jobs and financial services in Indonesia
The Indonesian startup, now backed by $16.7M in Series A funding, helps workers find full-time and side gigs while offering financial solutions
Read moreTechCrunch Mobility: Waymo’s Big Apple score and Nvidia backs Nuro
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for news, analysis, and scoops around the future of transportation.
Read moreIntuition for Pick’s Theorem
Pick’s theorem is a surprising and useful to find the area of a region formed by connecting dots on a grid. The area is simply A = i + p/2 − 1 where i is the number of dots in the interior and p is the number of dots on the perimeter. Example
Read moreiPhone 17, the ‘thinnest iPhone ever,’ and everything else we’re expecting out of Apple’s hardware event
From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here's what to expect from this year's Apple event.
Read moreElon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5
Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face.
Read moreOpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments
OpenAI isn't the only AI company looking to crack down on SPVs.
Read moreAmazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire
The former Adept CEO said he hopes to be "remembered more as "an AI research innovator" than a "a deal structure innovator."
Read moreThe Trump administration’s big Intel investment comes from already awarded grants
While Intel says the government is making an “$8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock,” the administration does not appear to be committing new funds.
Read moreKnuth’s Twindragon
A few days ago I wrote about a random process that creates a fractal known as the Twin Dragon. This post gives a deterministic approach to create the same figure. As far as I can tell, the first reference to this fractal is in a paper by Davis and Knuth
Read moreWhat’s hierarchical about a hierarchical wallet?
A few days ago I wrote about what’s in a crypto wallet. In that post I said that most crypto wallets now are hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. And I said that HD wallets are deterministic in the sense that they derive all their keys from a seed phrase. But in
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