Elon Musk is probably right about one thing
It’s become an internet pastime to point out all the things that Elon Musk is wrong about and all the ways he’s wrong about them. A list of them could be an article of its own, but in lieu of that, here’s a link that should suffice. Instead, this article
Read moreGM begins shipping a pricier-than-expected Chevy Blazer EV
The Chevrolet Blazer EV, a battery electric SUV that is part of GM’s bid to surpass Tesla in U.S. EV sales by 2025, is headed to dealerships. The automaker said Monday that the first 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EVs have started shipping from GM’s factory in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. GM also
Read moreNew Relic’s sale tells us much about the value of middling growth today
Monitoring service New Relic this morning said it has agreed to be acquired by Francisco Partners and TPG for $6.5 billion in cash. Shares of the company, which went public back in 2014, are up around 13.5% on the news. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every
Read moreWould-be Twitter rival T2 adds DMs — a feature others, including Threads, don’t yet have
As the battle among would-be Twitter rivals continues, one of the smaller apps to via for Twitter (now X‘s) fleeing user base, T2, has added an in-demand feature that even Meta’s Threads doesn’t yet have: DMs. The company recently announced it added support for direct messages, which has been among
Read moreChris’ Corner: Clever CSS Ideas & Explanations
If you think frosted glass effect in CSS, you probably think of the backdrop-filter property. Just backdrop-filter: blur(10px); will do the trick. I still think the look is kind of cool and fresh, but I should check myself a little here as the effect was popularized in the iOS 7
Read moreSEC sues Richard Heart and his projects Hex, PulseChain and Pulse X for fraud, securities violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it is suing Richard Schueler, known online as Richard Heart and his three crypto projects, Hex, PulseChain and PulseX, for conducting unregistered offerings of “crypto asset securities.” The unregistered offerings raised more than $1 billion in crypto from investors, the agency stated.
Read moreSEC sues crypto influencer for allegedly buying sports cars and a rare black diamond with investor funds
Image: Richard Heart via YouTube Crypto influencer Richard Heart is facing a lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission over claims he used “at least” $12 million in proceeds from his crypto products to buy luxury products. That includes the purchase of sports cars, luxury watches, and a 555-carat black
Read moreVariance of binned data
Suppose you have data that for some reason has been summarized into bins of width h. You don’t have the original data, only the number of counts in each bin. You can’t exactly find the sample mean or sample variance of the data because you don’t actually have the data.
Read moreKevin Systrom talks AI and his post-Instagram social app at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
When Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger co-founded Instagram in 2010, they basically invented photo-based social networking in the modern mobile era. Fast-forward to 2012 and a $1 billion acquisition by Facebook — and then again to 2018 when Systrom stepped down to research his next company. That’s one heck of
Read moreSpaceX tested ‘mega steel pancake’ water deluge system for Starship
SpaceX conducted a full-pressure test of a new water deluge system for its Starship launch vehicle on Friday, as the company looks to resolve one of the biggest problems that cropped up during the orbital flight test in April. It’s a major step toward making the launch infrastructure ready to
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