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Daily Crunch: Binance admits hackers used cross-chain bridge to steal at least $100M
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. Friday! How’s that for brevity in newsletter introductions? Let’s get to it so we can crack open a Liquid Death and let the week sag off into the murky distance of memory … Read more
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The Higgs Boson at 5 Sigmas (2012)
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I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet (2020)
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Meta’s making it easier to report bugs in its Horizon VR app
Reporting an issue is as easy as A, B, X, and Y. | Image: Meta Meta has updated Horizon Worlds, its main virtual reality / “metaverse” app, to make it easier to report bugs. If you see something going wrong while using the app, you can now press and hold the A, B, X, and … Read more
Living with Apple’s iPhone 14 Plus
What constitutes a big phone in 2022? It’s been a moving target for a number of years now — albeit a target that has been steadily moving in a single direction. It’s tough to determine the exact average display size, but most flagship smartphone screens generally fall somewhere between six and seven inches. In 2010, … Read more
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Rocket Lab’s 8th launch of 2022 breaks record for worst pun in space
Rocket Lab successfully launched an Electron rocket this afternoon with a new satellite for the Argos program, which provides connectivity to a number of scientific endeavors. It’s a milestone for the company, but more importantly marks — easily — the worst pun ever launched into space. The mission was called “It Argos Up From Here.” … Read more
Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation
Fintor, a fintech startup making it easier for non-accredited investors to invest in real estate properties, has just launched its mobile app for both iOS and Android. It also just raised a $6.2 million extension funding round from its existing investors, including Public.com, Hustle Fund, 500 Global, VU Ventures, Graphene Ventures and angel investors such … Read more
Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
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Plummeting unicorn births underscore a changing venture capital market
It’s a rote story by now that many populations around the world are facing rapid decline. Birth rates in many countries are falling, leading to concerns about graying populations engendering imbalanced economies. That’s true when we consider nation-level populations. It’s also true when we consider the rate at which new unicorns are born, measured by the … Read more
Microsoft’s fall event 2022: all the news from the online Surface event
Microsoft’s invitation for the Fall Event 2022 shows writing that looks to have come from Surface pen. | Image: Microsoft Will we get new Surface Laptops and an Arm-based Pro 9? All will be revealed on Wednesday, October 12, at 10AM ET Continue reading…
‘Vote for Holly!’ Meet the cheerleaders of Fat Bear Week
Brown bear (Ursus arctos) or grizzly at Brooks Lake with people on an observation platform in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA. | Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images Christy NaMee Eriksen discovered Fat Bear Week during her “Summer of Bears.” There were bear sightings in her neighborhood in Juneau, Alaska, … Read more
What to expect from the Microsoft Surface launch event
A previous generation of the Surface Laptop. The newest one could look very similar. | Image: Microsoft The Surface Pro 9, Surface Laptop 5, and an update to its all-in-one computer could be unveiled at Microsoft’s big October 12th event Continue reading…
If it’s agtech, it’s climate change: How the crisis is shaping investors’ strategies
To state the (painfully) obvious: The fates of agriculture and climate change are inextricably linked. The weather dictates what grows where and when, but as the Earth warms beneath a wool blanket of excess carbon, agriculture is especially vulnerable in ways you might not expect. Record-setting heat and droughts fry grasses that farmers depend on … Read more
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