Two years after pausing service, Roblox China cuts a small number of staff
Roblox China was once full of promise. Since its localized platform, which is a joint effort with Tencent, abruptly halted operation nearly two years ago, the company has been quiet about its standing in the world’s second-biggest gaming market until now. TechCrunch learned that Roblox China, also called LuoBu (罗布乐思),
Read moreSmart upcycling machine dissects batteries to save them
Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds. “We know exactly which cell can be reused and which one can’t,” he told TechCrunch on Monday. Circu Li-ion is in the business of saving usable battery cells from shredders. The German startup’s
Read moreSingapore-based Qosmosys closes $100M seed round to develop tech for the moon
Singapore-based Qosmosys has closed an astonishing $100 million seed round to develop its lunar lander tech. The company did not disclose its investors, nor did a Qosmosys spokesperson respond to TechCrunch’s email. In a press release published to its website, the startup simply said that it practices a “unique and
Read moreAI-based data center optimization startup MangoBoost raises $55M Series A
The central processing unit (CPU) and the graphics processing unit (GPU) handle different types of data. The CPU is used in almost all devices including computers, cellphones, tablets, smartwatches and TVs. It deals with processing general information on the device, making sure software is running correctly. While the GPU complements
Read moreCreate a Spotify-Style Lyric View in SwiftUI
How to make an interactive lyric scrolling view in SwiftUI using ScrollProxyPhoto by Matthew McBrayer on UnsplashIt was a revelation to many, myself included, when it became clear that Taylor Swift wasn’t singing ‘all the lonely Starbucks lovers’ in her song Blank Space. Being able to see the lyrics of the
Read moreConvolutional Neural Networks from the Ground-Up, for the ML-Adjacent
Building an image classification model from scratch to recognize my own terrible handwritingPhoto by Michael Dziedzic on UnsplashIn an earlier post, I walked through the Word2Vec algorithm and a reasonably bare-bones neural network. In this post, I’m going to walk through the implementation of another kind of neural network — CNNs, which are
Read moreMax Q: SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic speak on space regulations
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Read moreA Comprehensive Guide to Django Caching
Learn what caching is, its benefits, how to set up caching in Django, the backend systems Django supports, and caching best practices. Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to Django Caching on SitePoint.
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Read moreFCC aims to investigate the risk of AI-enhanced robocalls
As if robocalling wasn’t already enough of a problem, the advent of easily accessible, realistic AI-powered writing and synthetic voice could supercharge the practice. The FCC aims to preempt this by looking into how generated robocalls might fit under existing consumer protections. A Notice of Inquiry has been proposed by
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