Correcto grabs $7M to build out its ‘Grammarly for Spanish’
The generative AI boom has put a spring in the step of Correcto, a Madrid-based language writing tool startup focused on Spanish speakers that’s today announcing $7 million in seed funding. The round is led by London-based Octopus Ventures, with Carya Venture Partners and River Park Ventures also contributing. The
Read moreCalifornia governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have required a human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving truck operated on public roads in the state. The win for the autonomous trucking industry comes after the California Senate had passed the bill in mid-September. The
Read moreA conversation with Cruise’s Kyle Vogt, Bird scoops up Spin, and self-driving trucks live to see another day in Cali
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from
Read moreMersenne primes are unsafe
In the previous post I mentioned that a particular Mersenne prime would be unsuitable for cryptography. In fact, all Mersenne primes are unsuitable for cryptography. A prime number p is called “safe” if p = 2q + 1 where q is also a prime. Safe primes are called safe because
Read moreVictorian public key cryptography
Electronic computers were invented before public key cryptography. Would public key cryptography have been possible before computers? The security of RSA encryption depends on the ratio of the difficulty of factoring relative to the difficulty of multiplication. This ratio was high, maybe higher, before modern computers. Suppose the idea of
Read moreBuilding an equitable cap table puts more tools in a startup’s toolbox
Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn't be able to hire while making VC more diverse.
Read moreDespite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Disrupt! Last week, our team was at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which featured a dedicated fintech
Read moreElon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk
Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter — is coming off the high of Disrupt, which hopefully some of you, dear readers, were able to attend in person. Fret not if you didn’t —
Read moreNavigating a LaTeX file
I like generating long LaTeX documents from org-mode because, for one thing, org-mode has nice section folding. But not everyone I work with uses Emacs, so its better to work in LaTeX directly rather than have Emacs generate LaTeX. AUCTeX has section folding for LaTeX documents, though so far I’ve
Read moreDisability tech startups kill the cynic in me
"Accessibility is a human right," reads a sticker from the Howe Innovation Center. And for sure, it is great to see startups help companies make this a reality.
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