How to stop location tracking on your Android phone (mostly)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the nearby restaurants or gas stations are — but it’s also a privacy issue (something that at least one of Google’s competitors has used in its
Read moreApple Card users earned more than $1B in Daily Cash in 2023
Apple revealed today that users earned more than $1 billion in Daily Cash from spending on Apple Card last year. The tech giant also announced that Apple Card has topped more than 12 million users. Apple Card, which first launched in 2019, is exclusively available in the United States. The
Read moreHeart failure monitoring startup, Acorai, turns heads with oversubscribed seed
Swedish medical device startup Acorai is pairing proprietary sensing hardware and machine learning software with the goal of putting a non-invasive heart pressure monitoring tool in the hands of clinicians — starting with doctors in the US. Patients hospitalized with heart failure typically need to undergo an invasive procedure, such
Read moreAurora Solar lays off 20% of employees after reportedly missing growth targets
The SaaS startup, which provides software to solar installers, reportedly missed its growth targets for the past year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr
Learn how to build an AI-powered search engine with Milvus Vector Database on Vultr, This guide shows you how to use a HuggingFace dataset with Milvus Vector Database and build a question-answering search engine. Continue reading AI-Powered Search Engine With Milvus Vector Database on Vultr on SitePoint.
Read moreTesla’s next-generation vehicle: all the news about Elon Musk’s next big EV bet
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Will it be the Model 2? Model C? Whatever it’s called, Tesla’s long-promised $25,000 EV could be a game-changer. For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising an affordable electric vehicle, likely priced at $25,000, as a way to broaden the appeal
Read moreTeam, timing, and execution — the trilogy of success
What makes startups more likely to succeed is the quality of the team, their ability to execute, and their sense of timing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreDrone couriers and virtual faces among Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day highlights
Today is demo day at Alchemist Accelerator, which focuses on very early stage startups from technical founders. 15 companies are presenting in this batch, but here are four we thought worth a closer look. Alchemist also scored an additional $2 million from Mayfield to keep investing like this, so they
Read moreColoring the queen’s graph
Suppose we have an n × n chessboard. The case n = 8 is of course most common, but we consider all positive integer values of n. The graph of a chess piece has an edge between two squares if and only if the piece can legally move between the
Read moreWatch SpaceX launch a Northrop Grumman resupply mission to the ISS
SpaceX is teaming up with Northrop Grumman today to deliver more than 8,000 pounds of cargo, fresh food and scientific experiments to astronauts on the International Space Station. The NG-20 resupply mission will take-off from the Space Force’s Cape Canaveral in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at around
Read more