We should all be worried about AI infiltrating crowdsourced work
A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when performing a particular task assigned to them, as they used tools such as ChatGPT to do some of the work. If
Read moreYou.com looks to innovation to chip away at Google’s search dominance
You.com CEO Richard Socher may not be a household name, but if you travel in AI circles, chances are you know who he is. Beginning in 2014 when he wrote his influential doctoral thesis about natural language processing, he has helped pave the way for today’s headline-grabbing AI technology, a
Read moreMojocare investors uncover financial irregularities, unsustainable business model
Mojocare investors have found “financial irregularities” at the health and wellness startup and are move to scale down its operations, they said in a statement Sunday. The move follows the Bengaluru-headquartered Mojocare, backed by Peak XV, B Capital and Chiratae Ventures, laying off some 150 employees earlier this week. In
Read moreHow I Built the CI/CD Build Pipeline for My Smart Home
Photo by R ARCHITECTURE on UnsplashThe Current SetupI’ve been working ad hoc on a Smart Home Integration system for my house for about 7 years. The system consists of a few parts, including a Web UI, Chatbot, and API Server (I’ve documented it in detail previously). As the system has grown, I’ve
Read moreExploring Swift Macros
Generate boilerplate codePhoto by Michael Dziedzic on UnsplashMacros are finally here in 2023 and it's adding a lot more expressiveness, less boilerplate, and fulfilling what property wrappers couldn’t.Just looking at the available macro roles and knowing we can combine them too, there is a lot to talk about here. So in
Read moreReddit’s CEO lashes out, Twitter gets evicted, and NYC delivery workers get a pay raise
Hi, lovely people, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that highlights the top news in tech over the past week (or so). If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday. Most read Reddit’s CEO lashes out: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Read moreSet of orbits with the same average distance to sun
Suppose a planet is in an elliptical orbit around the sun with semimajor axis a and semiminor axis b. Then the average distance of the planet to the sun over time equals a(1 + e²/2) where the eccentricity e satisfies e² = 1 − b²/a². You can find a proof
Read moreThe UK hasn’t lost its appeal for venture capital
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. Not dead yet: This is true both of the U.K.’s capacity to attract venture capital dollars, and of
Read moreDeal Dive: Maybe venture debt works for asset managers after all
Blackstone last August was looking to put $2 billion toward lending to startups and tech companies, according to The Information. But venture debt lenders remain skeptical that the asset class’s small checks are worth it for asset managers and their large LPs. Recently, a few lenders told me they didn’t
Read moreDiversity and the Cybersecurity resourcing crisis – Hashtag Trending, the Weekend Edition with Helen Oakley, co-founder of “Leading Cyber Ladies,” and Ali Afshari, General Manager of Security at Cisco
In the book that our late CEO Fawn Annan and I co-authored, Digital Transformation in the First Person, I wrote a piece about my first meeting at IT World Canada’s offices, where I met Fawn for the first time. One of the things that impressed me about coming to these
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