Fintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind of financial services startup aimed at undocumented immigrants, Brex’s official recommitment
Read morenth root of n!
Last week the function came up in a blog post. as the solution to the equation n! = bn. After writing that post I stumbled upon an article [1] that begins by saying, in my notation, The function b(x) … has many applications in pure and applied mathematics. The article mentions a
Read moreActivation functions and Iverson brackets
Neural network activation functions transform the output of one layer of the neural net into the input for another layer. These functions are nonlinear because the universal approximation theorem, the theorem that basically says a two-layer neural net can approximate any function, requires these functions to be nonlinear. Activation functions
Read moreThe entire story of Twitter under Elon Musk
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Forget Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company — Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter. Elon Musk owns Twitter, and his new big idea is charging people to read more than a few hundred tweets per day. Verified Twitter Blue subscribers can
Read moreNetflix axes its basic plan in Canada, IRL shuts down and Shein’s influencer stunt backfires
It’s that time of week again, folks. Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular digest of the past week in tech. New here? Not to worry — sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday, then read on for the week’s recap. This week, we’re covering
Read moreElon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to blame the social media site’s new limitations on “data scrapers & system manipulation” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read. Musk tweeted late Friday that the “drastic & immediate
Read moreTwitter limits the number of tweets users can read amid extended outage
Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage that has stymied users’ ability to track new posts. In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised usage quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a maximum of 6,000 posts daily, while
Read moreThe TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports
The TSA will expand its facial recognition program to over 400 airports. | Image: Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will expand its facial recognition program to around 430 US airports over the next several years following what it calls “extremely promising” results in its pilot program, according to
Read moreWhat do FinOps and parametric insurance have in common?
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. The rise of FinOps already fueled multiple acquisitions, including IBM’s plan to acquire Apptio for a whopping $4.6
Read moreThe week in robotics: Teaching robots chores from YouTube, robot dogs at the border and drone consolidation
AI’s grabbing headlines, but the robotics field is still making a significant impact in the real world — and this is your briefing on our latest coverage of the growing industry. Before we get into the depths of the past week’s noteworthy robotics news, our resident expert Brian Heater dove
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