Steve Jobs’ son launches a fund, NASA debuts a streaming service, and writers protest a proposed surveillance law
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that highlights key developments in the tech industry over the past few days. If you missed the news this week, no biggie. That’s what WiR is for. We’ll fill you in. In this edition, we cover Reed Jobs, the
Read moreThe best apps are taking a page from mobile gaming
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Retaining mobile app subscribers is harder than it was last year, but paywall optimization and gamified UX can
Read moreDeal Dive: Most secondary sales in venture won’t look like Tiger’s Flipkart deal
A few months ago, it looked like all the pieces had fallen into place for a hot secondaries summer: Buyers were coming back to market, some companies and sellers were getting desperate, and the bid-ask spread — the difference of what buyers are willing to pay and the price sellers
Read moreRSA encryption in practice
At its core, RSA encryption is modular exponentiation. That is, given a message m, the encrypted form of m is x = me mod n where e is a publicly known exponent and n is a product of two large primes. The number n is made public but only the
Read moreBest Material UI Themes for Stunning Web Applications
In this article, we will explore the best Material UI themes available, each offering unique features to suit various project needs. Continue reading Best Material UI Themes for Stunning Web Applications on SitePoint.
Read moreThe FBI is investigating a multiple-state hospital ransomware attack
Illustration: Beatrice Sala The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that shut down emergency rooms in several states (via The Guardian). Ambulances were diverted while California-based Prospect Medical Holdings, which has hospitals in several states, “took our systems offline to protect them” and launched an investigation in partnership with “third
Read moreSAMRO Appoints Leanne Thomas as Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
The Southern Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) is delighted to announce the appointment of Leanne Thomas as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Following an extensive search that considered both internal and external candidates, the SAMRO Board has chosen Thomas to fill this vital role. Nicholas Maweni, Chairperson of the SAMRO
Read moreThis week in AI: Experiments, retirements, and extinction events
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. YouTube has begun
Read moreCode to convert words to Major system numbers
A few days ago I wrote about using the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary to search for words that decode to certain numbers in the Major mnemonic system. You can find a brief description of the Major system in that post. As large as the CMU dictionary is, it did not contain
Read moreSpyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data
Poland-based spyware LetMeSpy is no longer operational and said it will shut down after a June data breach wiped out its servers, including its huge trove of data stolen from thousands of victims’ phones. In a notice on its website in both English and Polish, LetMeSpy confirmed the “permanent shutdown”
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