Month: September 2024
Every fusion startup that has raised over $300M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
8BitDo’s new Bluetooth mod kit puts GameCube controllers back into play
A GameCube controller, post-mod. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo announced it’s taking preorders for a new mod kit that lets you retrofit a wired GameCube controller with Hall effects joysticks and Bluetooth connectivity. The company is charging $25.98 for the kit, which it says is a simple, solderless mod. 8BitDo has made a few of these … Read more
‘Hot Ones’ could add some heat to Netflix’s live lineup
Netflix has never quite cracked the talk show formula, but maybe it can borrow an existing hit from YouTube. According to Bloomberg, the streamer is in talks with BuzzFeed to create live episodes of the popular YouTube talk show “Hot Ones.” Netflix and BuzzFeed did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. The show … Read more
Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop
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AI Phobia: How News Headlines Shape Public Fear of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of modern technological advancement, promising significant contributions across various domains. However, alongside its rapid development, AI has also become a focal point of fear and uncertainty for many people. This fear, has been termed “AI phobia” by scholars and research shows it is significantly influenced by the media’s … Read more
Career Growth for Designers: 4 Steps Towards Fast Promotion
“Want a raise? Show some initiative: show your real worth to the company”. You might have heard similar advice from your more experienced colleagues. So, one day, you come to your manager with ideas for new features or a redesign for the product you’re working for. Your hopes are high: you are eager to be … Read more
Anti-Bitcoin: What Does BTC Need to Be to Actually Replace Fiat?
Traditional financial instruments have many drawbacks, the most serious of which are often the least obvious. Therefore, people rushed to look for answers in cryptocurrency. But for most people, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin in particular) has not become a replacement for the existing financial system but a new way to fit into it, a solution to problems … Read more
Why ORNG’s founder pivoted from college food ordering to real-time money transfer
Alex Parmley has been thinking about building his latest company, ORNG, since he was working on his last company, Phood. Launched in 2018, Phood was a payments app that let students use dining dollars to order food from third-party apps and merchants anywhere in the world. It built the first campus-integrated debit card and worked … Read more
Rust error handling
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Bitfarms accelerates 2.2 EH/s hosting agreement with Stronghold
According to Bitfarms, the mining hardware was originally scheduled to be deployed in Yguazu, Paraguay sometime in December 2024.
Sam Bankman-Fried appeals conviction, criticizes judge’s ‘unbalanced’ decisions
Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX CEO and co-founder who was convicted of fraud and money laundering late last year, are seeking a new trial. Following crypto exchange FTX’s collapse, Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts, then sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $11 billion in forfeiture. He has … Read more
The Jackpot Generation
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OpenAI previews its new Strawberry model
OpenAI this week unveiled a preview of OpenAI o1, also known as Strawberry. The company claims that o1 can more effectively reason through math and science, as well as fact-check itself by spending more time considering all parts of a query. The family of models is available in ChatGPT and via OpenAI’s API, though OpenAI … Read more
Testing the Firefox Alternatives
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Show HN: Tipsy simulated tic tac toe
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Terence Tao on O1
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“Design It Twice”?
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Check out the Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s guts in iFixit’s latest teardown
Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Courtesy of iFixit, a new teardown video of the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold reveals what the repairability advocate organization’s Shahram Mokhtari says is “the most exciting foldable we’ve seen on the iFixit teardown table.” iFixit offers very clear shots of the phone’s internals in the video and its … Read more