As misinfo circulates on X amid the Israel-Hamas war, reporters look to other platforms
In the wake of increasing misinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war now circulating on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, a number of journalists are building up their networks on rival platforms. The shift, though potentially small in terms of raw user numbers, could have an outsized impact on
Read MoreSamsung Galaxy Z Fold5: Tweaks and refinement of last year’s model
Foldable phones are going from “you’ve got to be kidding” to actually (sort of) practical, with a good half dozen vendors sticking their oars into the potentially lucrative market. However, so far, only one is available in Canada – the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5. The successor to last year’s Fold4,
Read MoreU statistics and a new paper by Terence Tao
Terence Tao has a new paper out that relates to a couple things I’ve written about recently. Elementary symmetric polynomials came up when developing the general equations for tangent sum and hyperbolic tangent sum. The latter post goes into more detail. Before that, means of symmetric functions, not necessarily elementary polynomials
Read MoreDemos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch
Before you start planning how you’ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all.
Read MoreAlameda Research’s ex-CEO Caroline Ellison testifies, claims SBF directed her to commit crimes
Caroline Ellison, the ex-CEO of Alameda Research, took the stand as the fifth witness for the prosecution in Sam Bankman-Fried’s six-week trial.
Read MoreTikTok now supports direct posting from AI-powered Adobe apps, CapCut, Twitch and more
TikTok today is introducing a new feature that will allow its users to post directly to the video platform from a range of popular editing apps, including Adobe’s AI-powered video editing software Premiere Pro, its AI creativity app Adobe Express, as well as others, including Twitch, SocialPilot, and ByteDance’s CapCut.
Read MoreThe Q3 venture capital market explained in five charts
The TechCrunch+ team has charted the most important VC data we've seen thus far in Q3 to help you better understand where global startup investing really is today.
Read MoreSnapEDA becomes SnapMagic and debuts an AI copilot to help automate circuit board design
SnapEDA, a platform for electrical engineers to easily access electric component data, is rebranding as SnapMagic and introducing a new suite of features that could be a game changer for electronics design. If you’re an electrical engineer, you’ve likely heard of (or use) SnapEDA. The platform has been around for
Read MoreCloudflare, Google, and Amazon explain what’s behind the largest DDoS attacks ever
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon all say they successfully mitigated what two of the companies called the biggest DDoS layer 7 attacks they’ve recorded in August and September, though none said who the attacks were directed against. The companies say the attacks
Read MoreAdobe Firefly can now generate more realistic images
At MAX, its annual conference for creatives, Adobe today announced that it has updated the models that power Firefly, its generative AI image creation service. According to Adobe, the Firefly Image 2 Model, as it’s officially called, will be better at rendering humans, for example, including facial features, skin, body
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