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Read moreThe Polestar 4 will launch in China with its own smartphone
Polestar, the Swedish EV maker owned by China’s Geely Holdings, plans to launch a smartphone alongside its upcoming SUV the Polestar 4. CEO Thomas Ingenlath shared the company’s smartphone plans with CNBC during the IAA Mobility event in Germany. Polestar confirmed the news with TechCrunch, noting that this is part
Read moreChecksum polynomials
A large class of checksum algorithms have the following pattern: Think of the bits in a file as the coefficients in a polynomial P(x). Divide P(x) by a fixed polynomial Q(x) mod 2 and keep the remainder. Report the remainder as a sequence of bits. In practice there’s a little
Read more500 Global closes $143M fund for Southeast Asia startups
500 Global, the venture firm and seed accelerator, has closed $143 million in financing for what it claims is its largest Southeast Asia early-stage fund to date. The new tranche, 500 Southeast Asia III, or “500 SEA III” for short, counts a sovereign wealth fund, public and private pension funds,
Read moreMeta denied injunction against Norway’s ban order on its surveillance ads
Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway’s data protection authority imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in July. The order also provides for daily fines for non-compliance. An Oslo District court rejected Meta’s arguments seeking to block the order and ruled
Read moreHow to Process Stripe Subscriptions In Your Serverless Apps
Starting a SaaS app and need to set your users up with premium features? Here’s how to get started.Earlier this year I released an AI-powered fitness app focused on creating tailored workouts using equipment you have at your disposal. It was pretty good, but inadvertently was geared toward how I exercise.
Read more‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen
Tesla was the worst offender out of all 25 car brands reviewed in the report. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re wondering which gadgets have the worst user privacy practices, it turns out the answer may be parked outside. According to a report published by the
Read moreSonos’ Move portable speaker gets a sequel
Yesterday marked four years since Sonos unveiled its long-awaited portable, Move. The $399 speaker got mostly good marks as the company’s first swipe at the category. There were, of course, some critiques for things like pricing, actual portability and battery. With today’s Move 2 news, Sonos is tackling some of
Read moreAPI security startup Pynt raises $6M
“We chose ‘Pynt’ because it’s short, memorable, and reflects our love for developers and a good beer,” Pynt co-founder and CEO Tzvika Shneider told me when I asked him about how the company got its name. “As we say: ‘A Pynt a day keeps your CISO away…'” Pynt hopes to
Read moreMeet the AI, fintech, SaaS and security industry chairs at TC Disrupt 2023
We’re less than two weeks away from TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, and we still have more amazing people and sessions to share with you. Today, we’re introducing you to our industry chairs. These folks act as expert resources for TechCrunch, and they assist with our outreach across their respective fields. Now
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