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TECH CRUNCH
India's tribunal court allows Byju's to proceed with crucial EGM | TechCrunch Byju's secured favorable outcomes in two court hearings Thursday, paving the way for the embattled edtech startup to move ahead with the extraordinary Byju's secures favorable outcomes in court hearings, paving the way for the Indian edtech startup to move ah…

This startup believes mobile apps for businesses should work more like consumer apps | TechCrunch The Mobile-First Company is developing B2B apps that are designed for mobile first because phones have become the main computing devices.

Climate tech VC Satgana closes first fund that targets early-stage startups in Africa, Europe | TechCrunch Satgana, which emerged from stealth in 2022, has so far invested in 13 startups out of the 30 it targets in Europe and Africa.

Accel earnestly rethinks early-stage startup investing in India | TechCrunch By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category leaders, Accel has handpicked AI and Industry 5.0 as the themes for Atoms because the firm believes that these two secto…

StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform  | TechCrunch StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it

Understanding humanoid robots | TechCrunch Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment | TechCrunch Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25

Oregon signs right to repair into law | TechCrunch Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list

LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app | TechCrunch LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday.

Exclusive: Fisker spent months trying to track down millions of dollars in customer payments The startup struggled to track payments for its electric vehicles thanks to lax internal accounting processes, according to multiple sources.

WIRED
Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot Afshin Mehin has helped design some of the most futuristic neurotech devices.

The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is About to Get Even Messier Closing the city’s seaport will send shockwaves across global shipping. Supersized container ships pose a growing risk to bridges and other  infrastructure when things go wrong.

Online Conspiracies About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse Are Out of Control Conspiracy theorists are calling the Baltimore bridge collapse a “black swan event,” and blaming everything from Israel to DEI to Covid vaccines.

‘Malicious Activity’ Hits the University of Cambridge’s Medical School Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not revealed the nature of the “malicious activity.”

Our Favorite Garmin Smartwatches Are on Sale Spring has sprung! Whether you want to run, surf, or sleep in, we've gathered the best discounts on a few of our favorite fitness trackers.

Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World's Most Powerful Open Source AI Model Startup Databricks just released DBRX, the most powerful open source large language model yet—eclipsing Meta's Llama 2.

The Science of Crypto Forensics Survives a Court Battle—for Now A jury convicted Roman Sterlingov of money laundering this month. His defense team says it will appeal, saying the crypto-tracing technique at the heart of the case is “pseudoscience.”

The Deaths of Effective Altruism Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.

Elie Hassenfeld Q&A: ‘$5,000 to Save a Life Is a Bargain’ Here’s Elie Hassenfeld, your high school EA crush. As effective altruism spirals into self-doubt, the idealist quant is still at it, helping Silicon Valley richies give away hundreds of millions each year.

Here Comes the Flood of Plug-In Hybrids New US emissions rules mean more plug-in hybrid cars are on the way. The electric vehicle tech is clean—but has a catch.

HACKER NEWS
Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3 Since Python 3.5 was released in 2015 including PEP 484 and the typing module type hints have grown from a nice-to-have to an expectation for popular packages. To fulfill this expectation our team...

bigscience/T0pp · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Sequoia PGP is now LGPL 2.0+ Sequoia is a modular OpenPGP implementation in Rust.

Code CAD – Use code to create CAD models A community hub for CodeCAD parts, OpenSCAD, CadQuery, JSCAD and more

Opening up a physics simulator for robotics As part of DeepMind's mission of advancing science, we have acquired the MuJoCo physics simulator and are making it freely available for everyone, to support research everywhere.

My Framework for Building Side Projects as a Solo Developer – Rauno Metsa When you work full-time, it's certain that you'll get paid. When you freelance, it's almost certain that you'll get paid. When you start a side project, it's uncertain if you'll ever get paid. And this can make it hard to start a side project. But what if yo…

What =delete means In my C++ training classes, I often explain the meaning of =delete as The library author is saying, “I know what you’re trying to do, and what you’re trying to do is wrong.”

Eating the Cloud from Outside In ∊ swyx.io AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Economic Data vs. Consumer Feelings: What the Gap Means for Biden The U.S. economy—by many measures—is doing great. But many voters think otherwise. Here’s what the data say about why voters feel so bad about the economy and what it could mean for Biden in the 2024 election.

The S&P 500 Is Poised for Best Start to Year Since 2019 Resilient corporate profits, enthusiasm around AI and hopes that the Fed will cut rates have given investors plenty of reasons to keep on buying

Dear Donald Trump, Here’s How to Manage Your Stock-Market Fortune It requires recognizing a fundamental truth about Truth Social: The current valuation can’t last

EVs Are Splitting the Auto World Into Two: Made in China, or Not Automakers are becoming more conscious of where they get certain parts and where those vehicles can be sold, to avoid sanctions

Israel Set Out to Destroy Hamas and Free Hostages—but Worries It Can’t Do Both Many see the war’s two objectives as irreconcilable, upsetting unity and threatening to collapse the government

NBC News Acted Fast to Land Ronna McDaniel. Her Tenure Lasted Just Days. Executives were aware of former RNC chief’s baggage, but reassured by her recent statements

Investigation Into Ship Malfunction and Baltimore Bridge Collapse Could Take Years, Officials Say Crews recovered two bodies from the Patapsco River and are pushing to clear the blocked waterway

Russia Doubles Down on Blaming Concert Massacre on Ukraine and the West Campaign is part of push to divert attention from security failures, analysts say

Disney Succumbs to Ron DeSantis in Fight Over Florida Tax District Republican governor says truce vindicates state; entertainment company views agreement as serving interests of all parties

Is Trump’s VP Contender Kristi Noem Ready for Prime Time? South Dakota governor on Trump’s shortlist faces scrutiny for everything from abortion policy to her new smile

ASSOCIATED PRESS
It's a bittersweet Easter for chocolate lovers and African cocoa farmers but big brands see profits ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year. Chocolate eggs and bunnies are more expensive than ever as changing climate patterns eat into global cocoa supplies and the earnings of farmers in West Africa.

A fight to protect the dignity of Michelangelo's David raises questions about freedom of expression FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble statue’s religious and political significance is being diminished by th…

US journalist marks a year in a Russian prison as courts keep extending his time behind bars For Evan Gershkovich, the dozen appearances in Moscow's courts over the past year have fallen into a pattern.

An airstrip is being built on a Yemeni island during the ongoing war, with 'I LOVE UAE' next to it SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As Yemen’s Houthi rebels continue to target ships in a Mideast waterway, satellite pictures analyzed by The Associated Press show what appears to be a new airstrip being built at an entrance to that crucial maritime route.

Venezuelans are increasingly stuck in Mexico, explaining drop in illegal crossings to US MEXICO CITY (AP) — Venezuelan migrants often have a quick answer when asked to name the most difficult stretch of their eight-country journey to the U.S. border, and it's not the dayslong jungle trek through Colombia and Panama with its venomous vipers, giant…

Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are stunned by the war's toll on Palestinian children DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst. But the gruesome impact Israel’s war against Hamas is having on Palestinian children still left them stunned.

Judge forges ahead with pretrial motions in Georgia election interference case ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, his lawyers argued in a court filing challenging the indict…

3 presidents. Many stars. 1 New York fundraiser WASHINGTON (AP) — Political donors can typically expect to see one president when they buy tickets to a reelection fundraiser, but this Thursday will give them a rare opportunity to hear from three at once.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ VP pick in 2000, dead at 82 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has die…

Cargo ship had engine maintenance in port before it collided with Baltimore bridge, officials say BALTIMORE (AP) — The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday, as divers recovered the bodies of two of six workers who plunged into the wa…

BUSINESS INSIDER

Ex-Google recruiter shares lessons from career pivot post-layoffs An ex-Google recruiter got into real estate after he was laid off. His career pivot taught him to trust himself and not be afraid of making mistakes.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang is about to give believers a look at AI's future The Nvidia CEO is set to host a huge event, dubbed the "Woodstock of AI," which will host a who's who of the sector.

Realtor lawsuit settlement will change the housing market forever New rules as part of a $418 million settlement could push down the commissions buyers and sellers pay their agents — but that's just the beginning.

Chinese youth are job hunting on Tinder Amid sky-high unemployment, Chinese youth are using Tinder to find jobs, NBC News reported.

We moved from California to Iowa to retire but only stayed 20 months Wendy and Kurt Meyer moved from California to Iowa to be closer to family in retirement. But they quickly realized they didn't like Iowa or retirement.

Rethink aging to solve the looming retirement crisis, economist says Improved longevity means the world is facing a retirement crisis. Flexible work and a focus on sustainable health would help, says Andrew J. Scott.

Side-hustle recommendations: Here are eight side gigs to try this year If you're thinking about pursuing a side hustle, look to things like surveys, dog walking, or holiday-related work.

The new car market is a little less brutal Falling prices and a return of discounts are making car shopping a lot less painful this year.

Stephen Colbert bolsters rumor that Prince William is having an affair As speculation about Kate Middleton's public absence mounts, Stephen Colbert says "internet sleuths" claim an old affair rumor is to blame.