The City and the Limiting Virtues
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Month: April 2024
Don’t Think Too Much: On Overcoming the Blank Page
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway As hard as it may seem, using templates to write something is harder for me to write than writing on a blank page. Nevertheless, I too have experienced blank page fright and that is why today I … Read more
The forgotten war on beepers
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The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
Image: Riley Testut The Delta emulator is officially available on the Apple App Store — for free — outside of the European Union, where it’s available via the third-party AltStore PAL app marketplace that just went live. The app marks the first significant and officially sanctioned game emulator for the iPhone since Apple began allowing … Read more
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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8 Factors To Pay Attention to When Pitching a Startup to an Investor
In the dynamic world of tech entrepreneurship, there are characteristic and indispensable factors that can make the biggest difference when seeking to raise capital or attract investor interest. As a technology startup entrepreneur myself, I have raised over $3 million in investment, and two successful exits have given me the experience to understand the interests … Read more
Amazon insists Just Walk Out isn’t secretly run by workers watching you shop
Image: Amazon Amazon is pushing back on claims that its cashierless Just Walk Out technology is run by humans in India — not AI. In a blog post on Wednesday, the e-commerce giant calls these reports “untrue” and says that a machine learning model powers its system. Last week, reports started going around that claimed … Read more
Novelists as Schoolmasters
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Using the New Google ML Kit Document Scanner for Flutter Apps
If you are here, that means you must have seen my PR from the Google MLKit Flutter package, which was merged recently. If you have not, you can check it out here #605. Google ML Kit for Flutter The Google Machine Language Kit for Flutter is a set of Flutter plugins that enable Flutter apps to use Google’s … Read more
The Making of Django Reinhardt
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Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe
That €1.50 per year subscription does not include tax but does offset Apple’s Core Technology Fee. | Image: AltStore PAL After we recently tested it in beta, the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL is now live in the European Union thanks to Apple’s compliance with the region’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Installing AltStore PAL … Read more
How to Create a Blog using Golang
After getting fed up with React, SPAs, and Javascript around 2021, I decided to re-write my personal webpage in Rust and wrote an article on how you could build a simple blog purely using Rust. It ended up becoming one of my most popular articles, and for good reason: Rust is exciting, fun to write, … Read more
Crypto PAC Spent Millions to Get Alabama Candidate on Path Toward Congress
Shomari Figures, a Washington insider with a lengthy progressive resume, didn’t pull in the most money in direct contributions as he sought one of Alabama’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Still, the crypto-friendly candidate dominated the crowded field of fellow Democrats and then won this week’s Democratic runoff with 61% of the vote.
Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest
Dante D’Orazio / The Verge Nine Google employees who occupied the company’s offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in. The workers were protesting Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for Google and Amazon’s cloud computing services. Employees at the Sunnyvale, California, campus occupied … Read more
TikTok starts testing its Instagram competitor TikTok Notes in Canada and Australia
TikTok is rolling out its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in select markets. The app is available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in Canada and Australia, the company said. The company said on X that it is in the “early stage” of the app’s rollout. TikTok said that the app is “a … Read more
Navigating Crypto Mass Adoption Hurdle: Exclusive Interview With Fintopio CEO Steve Milton
n In a recent HackerNoon interview, Coinspaid CMO Hugin Kuzin predicted that crypto payment would be commonplace in five years. Earlier this year, this prediction inched closer to reality after payment giant Visa launched crypto withdrawal services in 145 countries. When it comes to crypto payments, achieving a seamless user experience is not only the gold … Read more
Live selling startup CommentSold uses AI to generate shoppable, social-ready clips
The “AI ClipHero” feature creates short clips from livestreamed selling events, which often last for hours. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Waiting for Your Tax Refund? Don’t Fall for These Scams
Tax season is prime hunting time for scammers. While the filing deadline may have come and gone, tax scams are as active as ever. As taxpayers wait for their refunds, they should keep their guard up. It’s easy to see why these scams are so common. Taxes are complicated, involve a lot of sensitive information, … Read more
Palo Alto Networks’ firewall bug under attack brings fresh havoc to thousands of companies
Organizations are urged to patch their Palo Alto firewalls after researchers discover evidence of malicious exploitation dating back to late-March. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Visible’s new annual plans cut the price on a full year of service
Image: Visible Visible has just launched its first annual plans, letting customers lock in a year of mobile service all at once for either of the company’s two tiers. The Verizon-owned prepaid carrier is charging $395 per year for its Visible Plus plan, which it says leads to annual savings of $145. The standard Visible … Read more
TechCrunch Minute: New Atlas robot stuns experts in first reveal from Boston Dynamics
This week Boston Dynamics retired its well-known Atlas robot that was powered by hydraulics. Then today it unveiled its new Atlas robot, which is powered by electricity. The change might not seem like much, but TechCrunch’s Brian Heater told the TechCrunch Minute that the now-deprecated hydraulics system was out of date. It’s not hard to … Read more
Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries
The new “Answer with AI” feature returns neatly formatted answers for questions like “People who walked on the moon,” “List of all actors who played Batman” or “How do descale Nespresso pixie.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.