Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer
Comments
Finder.com sued by Australian regulator over its crypto yield product
ASIC claimed a crypto yield-bearing product from Finder’s registered exchange was unlicensed, the firm disagreed but refused to say if it would fight the suit.
The Accord will be Honda’s first car to offer Google built-in
2023 Honda Accord with Google built-in supports smooth multi-touch. | Image: Honda Honda’s next Accord will be the automaker’s first vehicle to support Google built-in integration, enabling native Android apps and over the air (OTA) software updates (via Automotive News). It will be included as a standard feature in the top Touring trim of the … Read more
Elon Musk starts banning critical journalists from Twitter
Many accounts have been suspended. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent reporters on Twitter, such as The New York Times’ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, The Washington Post’s Drew Harwell, The Intercept’s Micha Lee, Mashable’s Matt Binder, Aaron Rupar, Tony Webster, and potentially … Read more
Stock price for troubled Bitcoin miner Core Scientific surges 200%
After a flurry of bad news throughout 2022, the miner has been offered a lifeline which could enable it to see out the current Crypto Winter.
Stellar partners with UNHCR to give Ukrainian refugees cash via USDC
One new project attempts to help bankless Ukrainian refugees, while another hopes to streamline international Red Cross projects.
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon
A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s private jet, the fallout continues. Twitter apparently suspended its open source competitor Mastodon from the service on Thursday afternoon. Just prior to its suspension, Mastodon (@joinmastodon) tweeted a link to the jet tracking account on … Read more
Twitter suspends Mastodon after it tweeted about Elon’s jet
I’ll miss those cute elephants. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Twitter has suspended the official Twitter account of Mastodon, one of the most popular destinations for people seeking a Twitter-like alternative. If you visit @joinmastodon’s profile, you’ll see a message that the account has been suspended. We don’t know exactly why the … Read more
Embattled Crypto Firm FTX Wants to Sell Its Functioning Units, Including LedgerX
Crypto exchange FTX petitioned a federal court for permission to sell several subsidiaries on Thursday, including U.S.-based derivatives wing LedgerX.
Vintage Apple advertisements
Comments
I quiz ChatGPT about math
Comments
Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid
Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality. Tesla first piloted a “virtual power plant” in California, inviting Powerwall home battery owners to sell electricity back to the grid at peak times to mitigate brownouts. Soon after, the automaker expanded the effort into Australia and Japan, and next it’s … Read more
Daily Crunch: Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development
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. The TC crew are a bunch of bookworms. Alex collected the top reads from 2022. Haje’s favorite was “A Deadly Education” (Naomi Novik’s first book in the Scholomance trilogy), which incidentally was … Read more
First Mover Asia: Active Crypto Developers Decreased Nearly 60% in 2022
Despite the decline over the past year, more than 1,500 developers are still active in building the top blockchains and decentralized applications during this bear market.
Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it
AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but images of audio. Sounds strange, is strange. But if it works, it works. And it does work! Kind of. Diffusion is a machine learning technique … Read more
Crypto.com continues its worldwide registration push with Brazilian EMI license
The cryptocurrency exchange has offered a crypto/fiat Visa card in Brazil since last year and is expanding rapidly on international markets.
Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and others
Illustration: The Verge Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that could challenge the dominance Google holds in the mapping world, TechCrunch reports. The recently launched Overture Maps Foundation aims to encourage the development of new map products with openly … Read more
LG’s UltraGear OLED gaming monitors look as good in person as I hoped
It’s no surprise that these OLEDs look amazing no matter what angle you’re viewing them from. Thankfully, I don’t have to wait until CES 2023 in January to tell you about my experience seeing LG’s two esports-ready OLED gaming monitors. LG’s flat 27- and curved 45-inch UltraGear 1440p monitors are even faster than its TVs … Read more
Researchers use zero-knowledge to address privacy, AML concerns in stablecoins
Organizations led by German fintech etonec designed a system that takes advantage of zk-SNARK to provide untraceable transactions within regulatory limits.
How NASA’s newest satellite will monitor lakes and rivers from space
An illustration of the SWOT satellite in orbit. | Image: CNES Early tomorrow morning, a new Earth monitoring instrument called the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, or SWOT, will launch into space on a SpaceX rocket. The satellite will take the first global survey of Earth’s freshwater systems from space, observing not only the … Read more