OnePlus takes on the wet touchscreen problem
I got caught in the rain twice last week. That probably says more about my general lack of preparedness than anything, of course, but I was reminded both times how much is sucks attempting to use a wet touchscreen. I wouldn’t say it’s the largest single issue facing smartphones today,
Read moreAmazon’s devices chief is stepping down this year
David Limp is set to step down from his role as head of Amazon’s consumer devices division later this year. Amazon has confirmed the news with TechCrunch, following a Wall Street Journal report. Limp has been the company’s Senior Vice President of devices and services for more than 13 years.
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Read moreMastering Thread Safety in Swift With One Runtime Trick
The optimal method to ensure memory safety in a multi-threaded environmentPopular wisdomThe rise of parallelism in hardware has led to significant changes in software development. This has brought about the introduction of APIs for thread management and synchronization primitives in SDKs. Crafting a multi-threaded program that runs without glitches is
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Read moreThe Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg beef has reached a new level of absurdity
Image: The Verge Now that the proposed cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk isn’t going to happen, Musk is saying he will show up unannounced at Zuckerberg’s home to fight. “For the Tesla FSD test drive in Palo Alto tonight, I will ask the car to drive to
Read moreA merger that’s good for workers and consumers
Claude Cummings Jr. Contributor Share on Twitter Claude Cummings Jr. was elected president of the Communications Workers of America in July 2023. As the first Black president of CWA, he is a leading voice on labor and civil rights issues and the fight for social and economic justice. After an
Read moreAtomic, GV, & SOSV join the Startup Battlefield judges lineup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
The Startup Battlefield pitch competition is a Silicon Valley legend that’s reached far beyond its Bay Area beginnings. It’s a global launching pad for some of the most successful tech companies, including Cloudflare, Dropbox, Fitbit, Mint and Yammer. More than 900 Startup Battlefield alumni companies have generated over 121 exits
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Trying StarChat 16B large language model on a PCImage generated by StableDiffusionXL 1.0 model. Prompt: “machine learning model writes software code, artificial, cyberpunk, dystopian, silhouette, observer, deus ex machine” (yes, the deus bit is silly), negative prompt “portrait.”Large language models (LLMs) are the greatest hype recently. It started with ChatGPT, but
Read moreMax Q: More propulsion troubles on-orbit
Hello, and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: More propulsion troubles on-orbit News from Astranis and more By the way . . . We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Space Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Plus, we’ve joined forces with the Aerospace Corporation to host the Space Domain Awareness
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