Threads 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
Read MoreDeal Dive: Backing a founder again after they’ve spun out from their acquirer
It’s not often that a venture capital firm gets to back a startup again after it has exited — especially one that is still a private company. So when Builders VC got the call that the founders of cattle management software Performance Livestock Analytics (PLA) were looking to spin out
Read MoreRecruiting and retaining tech staff using upskilling – Hashtag Trending interview with Tony Holmes from Pluralsight
I recently sat down with Tony Holmes from Pluralsight to discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining skilled tech workers. With demand outpacing supply for these roles, organizations must get creative. Holmes stressed that today’s tech pros expect investment in continuous learning. “If I’m going somewhere and they’re not talking about
Read MoreBoolean function minimization with AI
I was curious how well LLMs would do at minimizing a Boolean expression, that is, taking a Boolean expression and producing a smaller equivalent expression. I didn’t expect good performance because this problem is more about logic than recall, but sometimes LLMs surprise you, so I wanted to give it
Read MoreThreads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app
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