Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide
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Month: September 2022
Steve Case is trying to make money with founders outside Silicon Valley; his plan is starting to work
Steve Case, the cofounder of America Online, the investment firm Revolution, and its offshoot seed-stage arm Rise of the Rest, has a new book out called Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream. In it, Case argues that Covid was a “shake the globe” moment for entrepreneurship, … Read more
WordPress WASM
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NFTs bring in-game ownership to a new level, says Blokhaus founder
NFTs improve interactivity by allowing users to unlock fully modular, community-driven in-game experiences to which they own the pieces, explains Mark Soares, the founder of Blokhaus Inc.
Guix for Development
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Inspyr
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Bitcoin was almost named Netcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto, hints domain data
Domain purchases under AnonymousSpeech around similar timelines revealed the creation of Netcoin.org on Aug. 17, 2008 — just a day prior to the creation of Bitcoin.org.
Homemade Heat Pump Manifesto (2009)
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Get in Zoomer, We’re Saving React
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California ‘BitLicense’ Bill Vetoed by Governor Gavin Newsom
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 2269, saying it would be “premature” to create a licensing regime specific to crypto without considering feedback from stakeholders and the cost of a new licensing structure.
America Has Lost Its Oil Buffer
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Tyler Hobbs’ Fidenza NFT Project Gets $1M Pump Over 48 hours
One wallet spent around $900,000 on the generative art NFT project alone.
NY AG tries to explain how Apple’s free Yankees stream is worse than cable TV
Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images Yankees star Aaron Judge could break a home run record at Friday’s game against the Boston Red Sox, and you’ll be able to watch the game for free through Apple TV’s Friday Night Baseball broadcast. But in tweets ahead of the game, New York Attorney General Letitia James confusingly called … Read more
Daily Crunch: London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Friday, and that means… Actually, we don’t even really know what that means anymore, other than that we’re going to sit in the sunshine and bask in the very last few … Read more
NASA’s Artemis I launch faces a new obstacle: the weather
NASA’s SLS on the pad on September 3rd, 2022 | Photo by Joe Burbank / Orlando Sentinel / Tribune News Service via Getty Images I’ve got good news and bad news for fans of big NASA space launches. The good news is that after repeated delays and a nail-biting test of a leaky fuel system, … Read more
I used OpenAI’s new tech to transcribe audio right on my laptop
The benefits of AI without the drawbacks of the cloud. | Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI, the company behind image-generation and meme-spawning program DALL-E and the powerful text autocomplete engine GPT-3, has launched a new, open-source neural network meant to transcribe audio into written text (via TechCrunch). It’s called Whisper, and the … Read more
CFO of Insolvent Crypto Lender Voyager Resigns
Ashwin Prithipaul joined Voyager as its chief financial officer in May of this year.
Framework to ban members of Congress and SCOTUS from trading stocks includes crypto provision
A bill based on the proposed framework banning crypto investments could help to “restore the public’s faith and trust in their public officials,” according to Zoe Lofgren.
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Drops Below $19K Amid Ongoing Volatility
Macroeconomic uncertainty continues to hobble crypto prices.