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Read MoreThe most important metrics for SaaS funding in 2024
Today we're focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreGeospatial AI Innovations: A Global Impact on Climate Solutions
IBM adopts the use of geospatial AI technologies in an attempt to address climate challenges. The company has collaborated with several organizations on various climate-related projects that include mapping of urban heat islands in the UAE, reforestation efforts in Kenya, climate resiliency in the UK, and the development of a
Read MoreTesla releases the Cybertruck, Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI, and Evernote cripples its free plan
Hi, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that highlights some of the more noteworthy moments in tech over the past few days. The holiday season is nigh upon us, but the tech industry waits for no one — on the horizon are IBM, AMD and Intel conferences,
Read More222nd Carnival of Mathematics
A blog carnival is a round up of recent blog posts. The Carnival of Mathematics is a long-running carnival of blog posts on mathematical topics. This is the 222nd edition of the carnival. Facts about 222 By longstanding tradition, the nth Carnival of Mathematics must begin with trivia about the
Read MoreShein a light
We won't be getting our hands on a Shein filing just yet, but we can’t wait to. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreDeal Dive: Betting on beauty fads is big business
RepeatMD recently raised a $50 million Series A round to serve the exploding med spa industry that is built on consumer beauty trends. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreI’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible
For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the acclaimed series Deep Space 9 that looks decent on modern TVs. It sounds a bit ridiculous, but I was surprised to find that it’s actually quite good — certainly good enough
Read MoreRobotics Q&A with Meta’s Dhruv Batra
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson Part 2: Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake This time it’s Dhruv Batra, research director, FAIR (The
Read MoreBounding complex roots by a positive root
Suppose you have an nth degree polynomial with complex coefficients p(z) = anzn + an-1zn-1 + … + a0 and you want to find some circle that is guaranteed to contain all the zeros of p. Cauchy found such a circle in 1829. The zeros of p lie inside the
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