Walking around Computex was a great way to get to know some of the coolest PC cases and mods I've ever seen, and it really showed me how deep PC building goes. But as much as custom builds are really cool, I really appreciate it when a company goes out to do something cool and unique in their space, and InWin really blindsided me with some of the coolest ideas I've seen.
Source: xda-developers.com
Snowflake’s Data Clean Room promises to ease analysis of PII data
Snowflake on Thursday said it was making its Data Clean Room application generally available for free in the Snowflake Marketplace. The application, which was built on Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, will allow customers to set up data clean rooms at no additional cost, the company said.Introduced in 2022, Snowflake’s Native Application Framework offers developers the ability to build … [Read More...]
What kind of jobs do new coding bootcamp grads get?
Coding bootcamps have become increasingly popular as a way for people to gain the skills they need to launch new careers in tech. But what kind of jobs can coding bootcamp graduates expect to land once they complete the program? In this post we’ll dig into the various roles and industries bootcamp grads can pursue, and give some tips for navigating the job search to take your first step in your … [Read More...]
X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots
X is living up to its name. The platform, formerly Twitter, is working on an addition to its Communities feature that would let X users create groups for X-rated material, according to app researchers. Researcher Daniel Buchuk of Watchful, which analyzes app development and performance, found the feature through reverse engineering the app. He shared screenshots with TechCrunch exclusively, which … [Read More...]
Buy-now-pay-later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30 million to make it a reality
We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. In Europe, Zaver competes on BNPL with Klarna, PayPal, and incumbents such as Santander … [Read More...]
HTML 101: Start Learning HTML as an Absolute Beginner
HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is used to instruct the browser on how to display content. In the popular house analogy, HTML defines the structure of a webpage, much like the foundation and structural elements of a building. However, let's take this explanation a step further. I regularly take the bus with my 3-year-old son to pick up his brothers from school. On Mondays and Fridays, we … [Read More...]
JWT, JWS, JWE and how to cook them
Hello there! It's been a while since I wrote here - all of a sudden, 2024 became way busier than I planned it to be. But hey, it's good to be back!Similar to my previous post, Understanding CORS, this one has the same backstory: lately, I have had to explain a few times to different people about such concepts as JSON Web Tokens (JWT), their structure, types, use cases, etc., so I realized that it … [Read More...]
A $3 app shoots better spatial videos than the iPhone’s native camera
A $3 iOS app now records higher-resolution spatial videos than Apple’s native camera app. Spatialify, available on the App Store, lets iPhone 15 Pro owners record 3D videos for Apple’s Vision Pro in either 1080p at 60fps or 4K at 30fps — with HDR. Apple’s native recording only supports 1080p / 30fps without HDR, so your immersive clips will be noticeably sharper using Spatialify than the camera … [Read More...]
Understanding Cookie Sizing and Chunking: A Supabase Dilemma
While working on our app (at Nexel), we encountered a peculiar bug with Supabase where it was generating duplicate auth cookies - one chunked and the other not. This bug led me to explore cookie sizing and chunking in order to understand why one cookie was chunked and the other not. Although I won't delve into the bug's specifics here, those curious about it can find more information in the Github … [Read More...]
SBF sentenced, Worldcoin hit with another ban order and big web3 pre-seed rounds are back
Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. This is the last edition of this newsletter. I want to personally thank each of you for reading this and if you would like to stay in touch, you can follow me on X here for future updates. With that said, the show goes on. This week, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former FTX CEO who was found guilty on seven counts related to money laundering … [Read More...]
On this day 8 years ago, Oculus Rift CV1 was released
If you're in the market for a new VR headset, there are a ton of options available today. However, the situation was radically different a few years ago, when the computing space was filled with clunky, underpowered, and overpriced headsets. All that changed in the mid-2010s, when Oculus began crafting modern VR head-mounted displays, or HMDs. Source: xda-developers.com … [Read More...]