Ready Worker One: Is VR the missing piece in your work-from-home setup?
This research is brought to you by the hard work of PhD students Anastasia and Felipe.It would be ideal to work from home all the time, many of us thought, until we had to do it. For me, like many, it almost worked well. The space I had for my home
Read moreSnap confirms EU users will soon be able to opt out of content ‘personalization’
Snap has become the latest mainstream social media firm to trail incoming changes in Europe that include the ability for users of its messaging app to switch off tracking-based content personalization. The measures come ahead of a major digital regulation compliance deadline Friday. The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)
Read moreComment on Writely Confirms Google Acquisition by Growing Multiple SaaS Products in Parallel w/ Ryan Buckley – Productize
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Read moreTeen Lapsus$ member was behind the leaked GTA 6 footage, London jury finds
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A London jury has found that a teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group carried out the high-profile cyberattacks on Rockstar Games, Uber, and Nvidia, according to a report from the BBC. The Southwark Crown Court jury found 18-year-old Arion Kurtaj guilty
Read moreFitting AI models in your pocket with quantization
SPONSORED BY QUALCOMM One of my favorite things to hear from clients is “You can’t do that…” Over the years, I’ve invited dozens of clients and developers to bring me a challenge. Got a piece of software you built but are certain it would never run on a smartphone? Let
Read moreSolana Pay integrates plug-in with Shopify for USDC payments
Solana Pay, a decentralized payment protocol by Solana Labs, has integrated its plug-in with Shopify, allowing millions businesses on its platform to use it for payments, TechCrunch was told exclusively. Solana Pay launched in February 2022 and is built on top of the layer-1 blockchain Solana. USDC, the second largest
Read moreWand.app raises $4.2M to scale its AI-powered creative tool for artists
Wand.app, an AI-powered creative tool that gives artists the ability to manually customize and visualize their ideas, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding led by O’Shaughnessy Ventures. Unlike AI-powered creative tools that provide limited control over the content they generate, which can be alienating to artists who have specific
Read more5 Engineering Lessons from Early Stage Startups
Over the past three years, I’ve left behind a 10-year stint leading an engineering team building enterprise, commercial SaaS for customers — like Novo Nordisk and Boehringer-Ingelheim — and dove head-first into the VC-backed startup world as well as working on my own startups like Turas.app.During that time, I’ve worked with a range of
Read moreIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 makes successful landing on the moon
Chandrayaan-3, the latest iteration of India’s ambitious mission to the moon, has successfully landed on the lunar surface — making history after its predecessor failed in 2019. The landing, which took place at the targeted time of 5:34am PT (6:04pm IST) on Wednesday over a month after the spacecraft’s launch,
Read moreFBI says North Korean hackers preparing to cash out after high-profile crypto hacks
The U.S. government said it believes North Korean hackers are preparing to cash out millions of dollars stolen during a spate of high-profile crypto hacks. On Tuesday, the FBI warned cryptocurrency companies about recent blockchain activity connected to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency by malicious
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