May 2, 2024

$SNUKE Presale Reaches 300 $SOL Milestone | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read $SNUKE, a meme coin with a vibrant community backing, has raised over 300 $SOL in the first four days of its 25 day token presale. The presale offers a commitment of 0% tax on transactions, with liquidity pool (LP) tokens burnt to ensure security. The minting function is permanently disabled to prevent the creation of new tokens.

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Chainwire May 2, 2024
AI

HELP! We’ve Been HECS’d

A statistical simulation of the Universities Accord recommendations Murray Gillin · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 15 min read · 1 day ago — Introduction In Australia, students can afford tertiary education through a government loan known as the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP). To ensure the value of the loan is not devalued, they are indexed annually based on the Consumer Price Index. Candidates begin to repay the loan when their post-tax

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Murray Gillin May 2, 2024
Robotics

Robots invited to help make wind turbine blades

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product. Although robots have been used by the wind energy industry to paint and polish blades, automation has not been widely adopted. Research at the laboratory demonstrates the ability of a robot

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Editor May 2, 2024
Start-ups

They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups | TechCrunch

Lacey Hunter thought all was well as she put her startup through the three-month Newchip accelerator. Then the organization filed for bankruptcy in May 2023. Things went from bad to worse later that year when she discovered warrants of her company — rights to buy an ownership stake — had become part of the proceedings, which ultimately forced her to shut down her company. In 2022, Hunter started TechAid, an AI smart-matching tool for humanitarian

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Christine Hall May 2, 2024

Your AI-native startup ain’t the same as a typical SaaS company | TechCrunch

AI startups face a different set of challenges from your typical SaaS company. That was the message from Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner at Glasswing Ventures, last week at the TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston. Seseri made it clear that just because you connect to some AI APIs, it doesn’t make you an AI company. “And by AI-native I don’t mean you’re slapping a shiny wrapper with some call to OpenAI or Anthropic

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Ron Miller May 2, 2024
Hardware

PCI-SIG Unveils CopprLink Cable Specs For Bandwidth-Hungry PCIe 5 And 6 Systems

When you plug in a USB or Thunderbolt cable to your computer, that connection is often being routed to a small chip that then translates that data into a PCI Express signal for the final connection to your CPU. In that case, why don’t we just use PCI Express for external cabling, too, and route it directly from CPU to device? This is a complex question that we aren’t going to answer in full in

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Zak Killian May 2, 2024

1 month left to submit nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 | TechCrunch

Here’s your shot across the bow — there’s a little over one month left to nominate your startup for Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt. Join this elite group for a new and awesome opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt. It’s positively packed with perks and possibilities to get your company to the next level. Don’t delay: Apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 by June 10 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. TechCrunch editors will vet every application, and the companies

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Michael Schick May 2, 2024

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