Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter
Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in
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Read moreVanMoof skids off track, another mobility startup goes SPAC and e-bike batteries catch fire
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host Kirsten Korosec is off having a glorious vacation, so I will be doing the roundup this week. As the EV revolution takes hold,
Read moreSymmetric functions and U-statistics
A symmetric function is a function whose value is unchanged under every permutation of its arguments. The previous post showed how three symmetric functions of the sides of a triangle a + b + c ab + bc + ac abc are related to the perimeter, inner radius, and outer
Read moreHarnessing Foundry Cheatcodes: JSON Report Generation with Solidity
While navigating the complexities of smart contract development and testing, we developers are always on the lookout for innovative tools that can streamline our work. One such utility that has caught my attention is Foundry’s fuzz testing, or “fuzzing”. Although fuzzing is an excellent approach to catching unforeseen edge cases,
Read moreWhy this founder decided to replace himself as CEO
Founding a company is a big deal, and taking on the CEO role to drive that company forward is an important choice. Some founders are able to lead their startups all the way through the process of company building. If you look at the list of most valuable companies in
Read moreAI didn’t invent creative remixing
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of artists and writers stayed at a run-down hotel in Paris that came to be known as the The Beat Hotel. Their proximity to one another produced some incredibly creative artistic cross-pollination. The Beat-generation creatives living there were experimenting with drugs,
Read moreThe fintech funding slump, by the numbers
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that is evidenced by the sobering funding statistics we cover below. But things feel like they are starting to pick up,
Read moreHow to Use Swift Package Manager to Save Gigabytes of Network Traffic and Disk Space
Use SPM to store dependency checkouts in a repository and do it better than CocoaPodsSource: AppleMany of you have experienced the annoying situation — you open a project or switch a branch, and see the sad picture of how SPM resolves packages.One of the advantages of CocoaPods, compared to SPM, is that
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