AI didn’t invent creative remixing
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a group of artists and writers stayed at a run-down hotel in Paris that came to be known as the The Beat Hotel. Their proximity to one another produced some incredibly creative artistic cross-pollination. The Beat-generation creatives living there were experimenting with drugs,
Read moreThe fintech funding slump, by the numbers
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. When it came to fintech news, we saw a pretty sluggish first half of 2023, and that is evidenced by the sobering funding statistics we cover below. But things feel like they are starting to pick up,
Read moreHow to Use Swift Package Manager to Save Gigabytes of Network Traffic and Disk Space
Use SPM to store dependency checkouts in a repository and do it better than CocoaPodsSource: AppleMany of you have experienced the annoying situation — you open a project or switch a branch, and see the sad picture of how SPM resolves packages.One of the advantages of CocoaPods, compared to SPM, is that
Read moreFarewell, Ramda
Ever struggled with old code, feeling like decrypting an ancient script? Often, Ramda was involved, prompting me to seek simpler alternativePhoto by Ryunosuke Kikuno on UnsplashIntroHave you ever come across a piece of code that’s two years old and struggled to make changes to it? You spend a lot of time
Read moreThreads hits 100M users, pedestrians fight back against AVs, and VanMoof skids off course
Hey, friends — welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. If life’s gotten in the way of following the major stories on TC, don’t sweat it. You’ve come to the right place. In this edition, we cover the 19-year-old MIT dropout “replacing gunpowder”
Read moreRelating perimeter, inner radius, outer radius, and sides of a triangle
Suppose a triangle T has sides a, b, and c. Let s be the semi-perimeter, i.e. half the perimeter. Let r be the inner radius, the radius of the largest circle that can fit inside T. Let R be the outer radius, the radius of the smallest circle that can
Read morePolishing Diamonds in Java
Managing interface change in diamond hierarchies.Photo by Edgar Soto on UnsplashInheriting Diamonds in JavaJava is an object-oriented language that supports single inheritance for classes. A class can inherit from at most one single parent class. Java also supports classes implementing multiple interfaces. Interfaces may extend multiple interfaces as well.The following class diagram illustrates
Read moreRemembering Joanne Pransky
A version of this post original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. It has been updated to include details about a new scholarship fund being raised in her honor. I didn’t know Joanne Pransky personally, so when news of her death broke late last month, I reached out to
Read moreExperiments with Bing chat
My two previous posts looked at experiments with ChatGPT and Google Bard. This post will look at redoing the same experiments with Microsoft’s Bing Chat: looking for mnemonic encodings and simplifying Boolean expressions. When you open up Bing chat you can select a conversational style: More creative More balanced More
Read moreIf cybersecurity isn’t recession-proof, what is?
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. It is always hard to know how a startup category will fare in a downturn. But if you
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