Circle expands Asia focus, Mila Kunis and Stoner Cats face SEC, Telegram adds crypto wallet and more
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Another week in crypto means another opportunity for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go after crypto projects. On Wednesday,
Read moreStealth startup Favs raises ~$1M for its close-friends-only social network
Over the years, social media has moved further and further away from its original value proposition of being a network where you could keep up with close friends and family in a private space. Instead, today’s apps are entertainment giants, filled with creator content, multimedia, and brand advertisements. A new
Read moreAs Databricks stacks more capital, a competitive AI market heats up
Databricks announced a $500 million funding round this morning, signaling it was putting more cash to work in the growing AI market.
Read moreMicrosoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
Proteins, the natural molecules that carry out key cellular functions within the body, are the building blocks of all diseases. Characterizing proteins can reveal the mechanisms of a disease, including ways to slow it or potentially reverse it, while creating proteins can lead to entirely new classes of drugs and
Read moreYour B2B leads are going to waste
Your B2B leads will go to waste unless you begin to create lapsed buckets and develop a strategy to attack them head-on.
Read moreHow to defend your organization against deepfake content
IT departments should implement real-time audio and video verification capabilities, passive detection techniques, and better protection of high-priority officers and their communications to defend against AI-generated deepfake messaging, say American cyber intelligence agencies. “The tools and techniques for manipulating authentic multimedia are not new, but the ease and scale with
Read moreMeet Abu Dhabi ECA, Jorie Healthcare, Establish PR and Scalable Path at TC Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is mere days away, people! We can’t wait to welcome you and watch the inspiration, collaboration and opportunities unfold. This epic event could not happen without the steadfast support of our partners. But they do more than support — they participate, they educate, they engage. The final
Read moreSalesforce ratchets up Einstein’s intelligence at Dreamforce 2023
Salesforce Tuesday released what it described as the next generation of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Einstein, which contains a new out-of-the-box conversational AI assistant and a new way for organizations to build applications. Speaking at Dreamforce 2023 in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the
Read moreCanadian weather websites still struggling after supplier attack
Pelmorex Corp., the parent company of two Canadian weather websites, is still struggling to resume full service after an unnamed software provider was hit by a cyber attack. As of early Thursday, TheWeatherNetwork.com and its French-language site MétéoMédia.com had partial weather offerings available, but not the full forecasts with details
Read moreChinese Remainder Theorem synthesis algorithm
Suppose m = pq where p and q are large, distinct primes. In the previous post we said that calculations mod m can often be carried out more efficiently by working mod p and mod q, then combining the results to get back to a result mod m. The Chinese
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