Victorian public key cryptography
Electronic computers were invented before public key cryptography. Would public key cryptography have been possible before computers? The security of RSA encryption depends on the ratio of the difficulty of factoring relative to the difficulty of multiplication. This ratio was high, maybe higher, before modern computers. Suppose the idea of
Read moreBeam us up, Scotty!
Star Trek fans can celebrate knowing that the holodeck is quickly becoming a part of their reality — sort of. Toronto-based media and technology company ARHT is currently previewing the latest UI for its ARHT CAPSULE technology. An ARHT CAPSULE in the company’s Toronto location This UI, ‘quick mode,‘ allows
Read moreBuilding an equitable cap table puts more tools in a startup’s toolbox
Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn't be able to hire while making VC more diverse.
Read moreDespite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Disrupt! Last week, our team was at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which featured a dedicated fintech
Read moreHUAWEI Launches the HUAWEI WATCH GT 4 smartwatch
HUAWEI Consumer Business Group (CBG) has unveiled the HUAWEI WATCH GT 4, the latest iteration of the WATCH GT flagship series. This smartwatch blends advanced design features with robust health and fitness capabilities, aligning with HUAWEI’s new ‘Fashion-Forward’ approach to wearable technology. Introducing three health features to reshape user perception
Read moreThe Future is Now: Why You Should Turn Your House into a Smart Home
In an era of technological advancement, our homes are becoming smarter and more connected than ever before. The concept of a smart home, once a futuristic idea, is now a reality that is rapidly gaining popularity. African cities are quickly adapting to the notion of Smart homes, and quickly adapting
Read moreElon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk
Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter — is coming off the high of Disrupt, which hopefully some of you, dear readers, were able to attend in person. Fret not if you didn’t —
Read moreNavigating a LaTeX file
I like generating long LaTeX documents from org-mode because, for one thing, org-mode has nice section folding. But not everyone I work with uses Emacs, so its better to work in LaTeX directly rather than have Emacs generate LaTeX. AUCTeX has section folding for LaTeX documents, though so far I’ve
Read moreDisability tech startups kill the cynic in me
"Accessibility is a human right," reads a sticker from the Howe Innovation Center. And for sure, it is great to see startups help companies make this a reality.
Read moreHTML entity data
It’s surprisingly hard to find a complete list of HTML entities in the form of a data file. There are numerous sites that give lists, often incomplete, in a page formatted to be human-readable but not machine-readable. Here’s an XML file from the W3C. Here’s a two-column text file I
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