Fancy founder returns with $1000-per-month luxury shopping startup, Long Story Short
A new luxury goods e-commerce startup dubbed Long Story Short has a provocative concept: it’s $1,000 per month to join for the privilege of shopping its curated collection. Shocking as that sounds, founder Joseph Einhorn believes he understands this sliver of the e-commerce market, and why many online luxury ventures
Read moreHow Magic Spoon CEO knew it was time to transition from DTC to in-store retail
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Read moreThe mobile regulatory landscape is changing at an inconvenient time for Apple
With the tech world fighting to win the AI race while smartphone sales slow and regulations chip away at its legacy revenue streams, Apple has its work cut out for it. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBell remains the fastest provider in Canada, performances improve across the board: Ookla Speedtest report
Bell remained the fastest provider in Canada, Ookla’s Q4 2023 Speedtest report revealed, as it topped the mobile and fixed broadband download speeds, fixed broadband upload speed, and 5G mobile performance, ahead of Rogers and Telus. The rankings remained almost unchanged from last quarter, with only minor shuffles. Here’s a
Read moreInfield wants to make open-source dependency management trivial
Virtually every application today relies on dozens — and sometimes hundreds — of open-source components. Many of those get updated at a rapid clip in order to introduce new features and to fix security issues (or the maintainers stop updating them, leaving security holes unfixed), but that also often means
Read moreThe IQ Test That AI Can’t Pass
Large language models have recently achieved remarkable test scores on well-known academic and professional exams (see, e.g., [1], p. 6). On such tests, these models are at times said to reach human-level performance. However, there is one test that humans can pass but every AI method known to have been
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