Harvard’s robotic exoskeleton can improve walking, decrease falls in people with Parkinson’s
If you follow the world of robotic exoskeletons with any frequency, you’re no doubt aware of the two primary categories. The first is aimed firmly at workers with strenuous or repetitive jobs such as lifting and transporting packages. The second is assistive, largely focused at individuals with mobility impairments. The
Read MorePrevious digital signature standard expires next month
The Digital Signature Standard (DSS) FIPS 184-4, first published in 2013, expires a few days from now, on February 3, 2024. It is superseded by NIST FIPS 184-5. This new version was published on February 3, 2023, giving everyone a year to adopt the new new standard before it became
Read MoreA CES 2024 preview, 23andMe victim blaming and MIT’s obesity-fighting pill
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech that was. Hope the holidays were restful for those who observed them. We at TC, for our parts, are gearing up for an eventful next week at CES in Las Vegas — while keeping
Read MoreWhat if the metaverse had legs?
I would be lying if I said that mixed reality and generative AI were two of my favorite things. And yet, a Christmas Day TV special made me unexpectedly bullish about them. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreDeal Dive: A Stripe secondary deal worth paying attention to
A recent secondary stock sale shows that investors are starting to value Stripe above its most recent, slashed, valuation. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreThis week in AI: Microsoft’s sticks an AI ad on keyboards
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, Microsoft
Read MoreIntegral representations of means
The average of two numbers, a and b, can be written as the average of x over the interval [a, b]. This is easily verified as follows. The average is the arithemtic mean. We can represent other means as above if we generalize the pattern to be For the arithmetic mean, φ(x)
Read MoreData ownership is leading the next tech megacycle
The time is nigh for the U.S. and other mature markets to get in the game before falling behind in a brave new world of data ownership rights. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreVietnam EV maker VinFast plans $2 billion investment in India
VinFast, Vietnam’s electric vehicle manufacturer, plans to initially invest $500 million to set up an integrated facility in India and break into the world’s third-largest automobile market. The memorandum of understanding with the state government of Tamil Nadu, unveiled on Saturday, earmarks an investment of up to $2 billion, the
Read MoreSierpiński’s inequality
Let An, Gn and Hn be the arithmetic mean, geometric mean, and harmonic mean of a set of n numbers. When n = 2, the arithmetic mean times the harmonic mean is the geometric mean squared. The proof is simple: When n > 2 we no longer have equality. However,
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