Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker’s drone cloud-seeding plan
Rainmaker wants to use flares to seed clouds – the airline pilots' union says it won't be safe.
Read MoreWhy the Oracle-OpenAI deal caught Wall Street by surprise
The $300B deal is a reminder that despite Oracle’s legacy status, it shouldn’t be overlooked when it comes to AI infrastructure. But key questions around power and how OpenAI will pay for this remain.
Read MoreGoogle is a ‘bad actor’ says People CEO, accusing the company of stealing content
People CEO Neil Vogel says Google's AI crawler can't be blocked because it would block the web crawler too. This lets the search giant steal its content for AI.
Read MoreMastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking’
Decentralized X alternative Mastodon adds support for quote posts, but with additional controls.
Read MorePreparing for your later-stage raise: Insider strategies from top investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Planning your Series C and beyond? Hear from IVP’s Zeya Yang, Generation’s Lila Preston, and Diligent Robotics’ Andrea Thomaz on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 in San Francisco.
Read MoreLast day to amplify your brand: Host your Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
The application to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. Boost your brand during Disrupt Week in October. Apply now.
Read MoreHow an over-the-air update made Quilt’s heat pumps more powerful
Quilt's software update unlocked an additional 20% heating and cooling capacity for all of its heat pumps, including those installed in customers' homes.
Read MoreApple delays release of iPhone Air in China due to pending approval of eSIM
The eSIM-only iPhone Air's release is being delayed in China, likely due to regulatory issues around the approval of the embedded SIM.
Read MoreAI Image Enhancer Guide: Sharpen, Restore, and Upscale
Whether it is a photo from an old family album or a photograph from a smartphone camera that was not focused, a blurred or pixelated photo is very frustrating. That’s where the AI image correction tool came in. Instead of spending hours editing, these smart tools automatically repair, sharpen, and
Read MoreMore triangle inequalities
Yesterday I wrote about a triangle inequality discovered by Paul Erdős. Let P be a point inside a triangle ABC. Let x, y, z be the distances from P to the vertices and let p, q, r, be the distances to the sides. Then Erdős’ inequality says x + y + z ≥ 2(p + q + r). Using the same notation, here are four more triangle inequalities discovered by Oppenheim
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