Announcing a Taiwan-specific Wave of Grants
The Taipei Ethereum Meetup recently hosted Crosslink Taiwan 2019. It was a wonderful event and a perfect opportunity for the Ethereum Foundation’s Ecosystem Support Program (ESP) to provide a Taiwan-specific wave of grants! The recipients are as follows. 🍍 Group 1: Ethereum-based Technical Projects: USD$5,000 awarded to each project Eauth (License: MIT): An OAuth-compatible service […]
Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another
Jacqui VanLiew; Getty Images As generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini become more advanced, they are increasingly being put to work. Startups and tech companies are building AI agents and ecosystems on top of the systems that can complete boring chores for you: think automatically making calendar bookings and potentially buying products. […]
Joy Fidget V2.0
Introduction This is Joy Fidget V2.0, the successor to the original Joy Fidget. In this version, I have made significant enhancements, particularly to the clicking mechanism. Gone are the days of the original flawed click-in mechanism; instead, I've implemented a threaded mechanism that is more reliable during printing on all of your machines. Check out […]
Bitcoin.org wallet is no longer available on iphone
tl;dr: Look for a 12-word recovery phrase which, two years ago, the app would have asked you to write down and keep safe. I installed bitcoin.org 2 years ago. bitcoin.org is unrelated to bitcoin.stackexchange.com (this website). You can use the Internet Archive (the “Wayback Machine”) to look at the bitcoin.org website as it existed two […]
Lawsuit: New Mexico Teenager Disabled After Teacher Told Students to Duel with Katana, Rapier
Attorneys for the family of the 16-year-old injured in the alleged duel note that Volcano Vista High School’s assistant principal had tried describing the incident as “a lesson on metal and melding.” An unusual lawsuit claims that a New Mexico teacher encouraged two high school students to engage in mock combat with swords, culminating in […]
Apple cancels its car, Google’s AI goes awry and Bumble stumbles
Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had […]
The Most Incredible 3D Printed Dart Launcher You’ll Ever See
Jesse Kovarovics, MatterHackers’ August Hacker of the Month, creates the world’s first 3D printed foam dart blaster: the FDL-1. When it comes to foam dart guns, you could say that we here at MatterHackers are big fans. Seriously, not one holiday party has gone by where an all-out battle of flying foam darts ensues. So, […]