Month: September 2022
How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s deposition for the Twitter v. Musk suit may have been rescheduled for next week, but the public got some more inside dirt about his plans for Twitter, thanks to the release of two slideshow presentations and a slew of Musk texts. The texts show … Read more
Fixing an ancient GDB problem
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The ‘Brussels Effect’ wields real influence over US crypto regulation
The European Union is leading the way when it comes to global cryptocurrency regulations.
GV aims to help build a company that can sniff out disease, literally
Alex Wiltschko has what he thinks is a big idea. He wants to build a company that digitizes scent. It’s a natural step for Wiltschko, who has a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard, where he studied how the brain processes odor. He didn’t wind up in this specific group accidentally, he suggests. It owes to … Read more
Here are some of the cringiest revelations in the Elon Musk text dump
A new, particularly juicy document has surfaced in discovery leading up to the Elon Musk v. Twitter trial, slated to take place in a few weeks. Behold: a trove of texts between Musk and key figures at Twitter, like founder Jack Dorsey, board chair Bret Taylor and current CEO Parag Agrawal, and other casual chats … Read more
Lack of ‘qualified people’ without more Web3 education, say academics
Blockchain Academy International’s Huxley Peckham says there are already 60 different industries using blockchain tech today.
On Starting A Crypto Career In The Dead Of Winter
An argument for taking the long view and studying blockchain or related technology now, even when prospects seem scary. This story is part of CoinDesk’s Education Week.
Google Colaboratory launches a pay-as-you-go option, premium GPU access
Google Colaboratory (Colab for short), Google’s service designed to allow anyone to write and execute arbitrary Python code through a web browser, is introducing a pay-as-a-you-go plan. In its first pricing change since Google launched premium Colab plans in 2020, Colab will now give users the option to purchase additional compute time in Colab with … Read more
Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 4 earbuds add spatial audio and heart rate tracking
Soundcore Liberty 4 earbuds | Image: Soundcore Today Anker is adding a new entry to its line of Soundcore earbuds with the Liberty 4. While this set keeps the brand in the budget earbud category with a $149.99 price, they’re the first ones in this line to combine a “stick” design (as seen in the … Read more
First Mover Asia: IOTA’s Shimmer Joins the Race to Become the Next Big Blockchain; Bitcoin Seesaws Before Holding Near $19.5K
The unveiling of a new blockchain platform comes amid a flurry of blockchain startups, each promising to be faster and cheaper than other protocols.
Crypto Goes to College
As traditional financial firms expand into crypto, they will look for traditional hiring credentials, creating a sea change at universities and the crypto job market overall. This story is part of CoinDesk’s Education Week.
mmhmm co-founders are building the great pyramid of hybrid work
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. When Phil Libin co-founded Evernote he spent tons of money making the perfect working environment with chic offices, a shuttle bus and headphones to block out all of his employees’ distracting co-workers. He’s since seen the work-from-home light and co-founded mmhmm to make working remotely more efficient … Read more
Eufy’s impressive new smart cameras use AI to identify you and your pets
Image: Eufy Smart home company Eufy’s new wireless security camera, the EufyCam 3, bumps up the resolution to 4K and adds a built-in solar panel to extend the year-long battery life even further. But its best features come from the new HomeBase 3 hub the camera connects to wirelessly. This adds local processing of video … Read more
I Visited Bucha Today
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NASA is studying whether SpaceX can visit the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope | Image: NASA SpaceX and NASA have agreed to figure out whether or not a SpaceX ship could visit and potentially breathe new life into the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. They announced that they were partnering on a study that would look into whether or not that kind of mission was … Read more
Why modern software is slow
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Truepill, a digital health unicorn, conducts fourth round of layoffs in 2022
Truepill, a platform that helps other companies offer diagnostics, telehealth services and prescriptions, has conducted its fourth layoff of the year. Sources say the layoff impacted around 65% of the existing staff across the engineering, human resources, design, IT and finance teams. The layoff comes around two months after its last round, which impacted about … Read more
Google Stadia never mattered, and it never had a chance
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google had big plans for its cloud gaming service, but it never tipped the scales. Soon, Google will be shutting it down. Continue reading…
Warner Music Group partners with OpenSea to create more Web3 opportunities for artists
The company stated that select artists can launch their NFT collections and limited-edition projects on their own dedicated drop pages.
NASA and SpaceX are studying sending a private crew to boost Hubble’s orbit
SpaceX and NASA have signed a new agreement to study the feasibility of sending a commercial crew in a SpaceX Dragon to boost the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope. If completed, the mission could extend the operational lifespan of the telescope by as much as 20 years. NASA officials cautioned that today’s news is … Read more
Daily Crunch: Google to sunset Stadia in January 2023, will refund hardware purchases
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. Today we are mostly listening to acoustic covers of songs we love (a surprise Iron and Wine cover, perhaps?), and mentally preparing ourselves for TechCrunch Disrupt. Which reminds us — did you … Read more
Market manipulation claims will be hardest ‘nut to crack’ in Bitcoin ETF approval — WisdomTree
“We’re all kind of watching this and seeing what’s going to happen,” said WisdomTree’s Will Peck on spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the United States.
Judge orders SEC to turn Hinman documents over to Ripple Labs after months of dispute
U.S. District Court Analisa Torres overruled the SEC’s second attempt to withhold the documents relating to division director William Hinman, who said Bitcoin and Ether are not securities.
Musico: AI Generated Music
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Telefónica, Spain’s Largest Telco, Allows Purchases With Crypto, Invests in Local Exchange Bit2Me
The company activated purchases with crypto on its technology marketplace after adding a payment feature provided by Bit2Me.
FCC rules satellites must deorbit within 5 years of ending mission
Satellites in low Earth orbit can’t linger too long after they’ve finished what they went there to do, according to new rules passed by the FCC today. Now there’s a five year limit on loitering in orbit, which should help keep the space debris problem more manageable in years to come. The FCC, for reasons … Read more