TechCrunch+ Roundup: Generative AI marketing, European edtech report, falling fintech valuations
Maintaining a full content pipeline is a laborious, subjective process, and with so many people involved, it can be hard to remain data-driven. Generative AI tools speed up this work dramatically: Once a system is trained on your content, it will churn out keywords and ideas by the bushel, but
Read moreTesla’s margins remind us that it’s an automaker, not a tech company
Tesla’s stock is worth more than that of Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen and Stellantis combined. Even though Tesla is an automaker, it’s valued as more of a tech company, with a share price that puts it in the camp of companies like Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft. But that share
Read moreA Pure Swift Library To Find Favicons Used by Any Website
Designed for iOS and macOS applicationsgithub.com/will-lumley/FaviconFinderSome time ago, I was working on an iOS application that required me to fetch and display the favicon of a given URL.Easy right? Well, not so much.About 15 to 20 years ago, you’d be fine to set up a simple HTTP GET request at the server's
Read morePandas Internals Explained
Explaining the pandas data model and its advantagesPhoto by La-Rel Easter on UnsplashIntroductionpandas enables you to choose between different types of arrays to represent the data of your dataframe. Historically, most dataframes are backed by NumPy arrays. pandas 2.0 introduced the option to use PyArrow arrays as a storage format. Additionally,
Read moreRed Hat saved IBM’s bacon this quarter
IBM reported earnings this week, and if we’re being honest, the results were rather uninspiring. The company generated revenue of around $15.5 billion, down a disappointing 0.4% from its year-ago result. However, even inside its less than stellar report, there were some favorable tidbits for the well-known tech giant. On
Read moreRed Hat decision turns world of open-source Linux upside down
The Linux political wars have been percolating for a month now, and depending on what side you belong to, the decision by Red Hat to restrict source code distribution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is either a business decision that needed to happen or an act of betrayal. The
Read moreThe makers of Camera+ releases Photon, a new image capture app for pros
The developers of the popular iPhone app Camera+, LateNiteSoft, have launched a new iOS app called Photon. This new app is focused on pro image shooting. The developers are banking on the app’s simple interface and multi-format support to attract users. The app will let you shoot in auto mode
Read moreAstranis moves to Plan B after first commercial internet satellite malfunctions on orbit
Space-based internet startup Astranis said Friday that its first commercial internet satellite will be unable to provide continuous coverage to Alaska due to a malfunction with both spacecraft’s solar panels. The San Francisco-based company launched the dedicated internet satellite for Alaska, called Arcturus, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy at the
Read moreQ2 fintech funding: LatAm, Caribbean more than doubles while payments takes a big hit
CB Insights released its Q2 State of Fintech report last week, and unsurprisingly, global funding in the space was down — plunging by nearly half to $7.8 billion, its lowest level since 2017. But at least one region didn’t have a bad quarter. Latin America experienced a surge in global
Read moreThe NYC subway is using automated scanning software to spot fare evaders
The MTA is cracking down on subway fare evasions after revealing the issue cost the authority $285 million last year. | Photo by Gary Hershorn / Getty Images The persistence of fare evasion on the New York City subway system has prompted the Metropolitan Transit Authority to install AI-powered surveillance
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