Twitch starts testing a TikTok-like clips feed to boost discovery
Twitch’s previously announced Discovery Feed is now out in the wild as a live test following the feature’s announcement back in July. The new feed will surface short clips from streams in a TikTok-like area within the Twitch app, giving offline creators a way to connect with new viewers without
Read moreOpenAI brings fine-tuning to GPT-3.5 Turbo
OpenAI customers can now bring custom data to the lightweight version of GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo — making it easier to improve the text-generating AI model’s reliability while building in specific behaviors. OpenAI claims that fine-tuned versions of GPT-3.5 can match or even outperform the base capabilities of GPT-4, the company’s
Read moreBessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures VCs and Sunshine founder join Startup Battlefield judges at TC Disrupt
We’re in the less-than-30-day countdown to TechCrunch Disrupt 202 and the show’s crown jewel, the Startup Battlefield competition. You do not want to miss the global launching pad of some of tech’s most successful companies, including Cloudflare, Dropbox, Fitbit, Mint and Yammer. More than 900 Startup Battlefield alumni companies have
Read moreNetflix debuts ‘Rebel Moon’ teaser, Zack Snyder’s two-part sci-fi epic
Netflix released the official teaser trailer for “Rebel Moon,” a space fantasy film directed by “Justice League” filmmaker Zack Snyder, arriving on the streaming service on December 22. Notably, this is only the first part of the film, which is titled “Rebel Moon Part 1: A Child of Fire.” Netflix
Read moreMastering live coding interviews: A guide for interviewers
Overview Live coding interviews are an effective way to identify qualified engineering candidates for technical roles. While they provide a highly realistic job simulation experience compared to traditional interviews, live coding interviews can be stressful for candidates and time-consuming for hiring teams—so it’s best to conduct these interviews on a
Read moreIBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java
COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on production systems, up from an estimated 220 billion in 2017.
Read moreTechCrunch+ Roundup: Monetizing generative AI, sex tech checkup, patents and IP
Several years ago, I was chatting with a friend who’d become an investor about an idea I had for a startup. It wasn’t a pitch: I just wanted to see what they thought of my premise. “That sounds like a solid lifestyle startup,” they replied, “but most investors I know
Read moreMicrosoft can’t stop discontinuing Kinect
Kinect occupies a strange place in the tech world. It’s a nearly universally beloved piece of technology that was both ahead of its time and very much of its time, all at once. It felt — for a moment — like it was going to revolutionize gaming, but much like
Read moreThey made a scary matcha Pokémon
A new Pokémon just dropped, and it’s literally a chipped teapot of matcha. It is called Poltchageist, and yes, that’s a portmanteau of poltergeist and matcha. It’s ghost tea. Yes, Pokémon has already made this joke before, when they introduced Polteageist in the Pokémon Sword and Shield games, which take
Read moreScroll Programmatically With SwiftUI ScrollView
Photo by Tianyi Ma on UnsplashWhen looking into ways to implement UIKit’s setContentOffset(_:animated:) in SwiftUI, I’ve run into quite a few approaches. Some of them — such as using the id for ScrollView and redrawing the whole thing — are fairly creative, though rather excessive in 2023. Here I suggest much easier ways to set
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