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We just discovered a fast radio burst from a distant galaxy — and we have questions
North Carolina’s plan to ban free EV charging is an environmental disgrace
Lightyear’s solar-powered EV can go for months without being plugged in
Over 1 in 5 public EV chargers are broken in the Greater Bay Area
Why Edward Snowden’s talk at TNW Conference 2022 is unmissable
TNW Conference speakers not to miss: Stefanie Knaab is on a mission to fight domestic violence
( I don't know. Sounds like a bad case of 'unclear on the concept' )
Tech Crunch
Here’s the complete agenda for next week’s TC Sessions: Climate 2022 3 days ago – TC Sessions: Climate, in partnership with the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals, is our first event dedicated to the climate crisis. And our agenda is complete! Leading scientists, entrepreneurs, VCs and more will gather in person on June 14 at UC Berkeley (and online on June 16) to exam...
Netflix announces games tied to its popular shows, including ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ ‘Shadow and Bone’ and more
3 days ago –
At its annual Geeked Week event, Netflix announced a slew of new
titles coming to its gaming service this year. A few of the new games
are tied to some of Netflix’s most popular TV shows, including “The
Queen’s Gambit,” “Shadow and Bone,” and “Too Hot To Handle.” The
streaming service currently h...
If you must conduct layoffs, don’t be a jerk
3 days ago –
Since our last column, another smattering of tech startups has
laid off employees. We get it. Layoffs happen. But as we conduct yet
another week of analysis into a depressing time in tech, we’re thinking
about how these difficult conversations could be a bit less awful if we
learned to prioritize...
3 days ago –
Free messaging app Telegram is getting into the subscription
game. Founder Pavel Durov confirmed today a paid offering is coming
later this month which will go above and beyond the current free
experience — so a premium offer — without, per the post on his Telegram
channel, any negative changes t...
Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify
2 days ago –
How will all of these BNPL-focused providers fare with Apple pounding its way into their market?
The Winklevoss twins rock on
2 days ago –
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about an
arrest in the crypto world that had investors sweating. This week, we’re
talking about rocking through the general malaise of a crypto winter.
You can subscribe to this newsletter and get it in your inbox every
Thursday on TechCrunch’s...
QuantumScape loses manufacturing chief over management style mismatch
3 days ago –
Celina Mikolajczak, who has held senior roles at Tesla and
Panasonic, resigned from QuantumScape less than a year after taking the
chief manufacturing officer position at the solid-state battery company,
according to a regulatory filing. Mikolajczak and QuantumScape are
parting ways over “differi...
Crypto lender Celsius pauses withdrawals, transfers citing ‘extreme market conditions’
16 hours ago –
Celsius Network, one of the biggest crypto lenders, told
customers Sunday evening that it is pausing withdrawals, swap, and
transfers between accounts in a move that has sparked discussions and
prompted the price of the firm’s token to take a 60% tumble in the past
one hour to as low as 19 cents....
WWDC stands for ‘wow what dank continuity’ and other TC news
a day ago –
On a very special episode of The TechCrunch Podcast this week,
I’m joined by Apple Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing Kurt
Knight, who talks us through some of the big updates Apple announced at
its WWDC conference on Monday. Kurt specifically talks us through the
big new changes to Ap...
Investors show Latin American fintech startups the money
a day ago –
Welcome to The Interchange, a take on this week’s fintech news
and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Greetings from
Austin, Texas, where the temps have been over 100 degrees for days now
and we’re trying hard just not to melt. The global funding boom in 2021
was unlike anything m...
Disney and Viacom18 acquire media rights for IPL cricket tournament
6 hours ago –
Disney and Viacom18 have won the five-year media rights for the
Indian Premier League cricket tournament, people familiar with the
matter said, beating rivals including Sony to a license that gave the
California-headquartered giant a big leg up in amassing over 200 million
subscribers. Viacom18 —...
How Apple’s thoughtful, measured approach is building a revolution in health
6 hours ago –
Apple’s health business could now stand alone as one of the
largest in the sector in terms of sheer reach — if it could ever be
disentangled from the company’s other products, which, by design, it
really can’t. At the company’s annual WWDC global developer conference
last week, a variety of new h...
Tiger Global backs bttn, leading e-commerce infiltration of medical supplies
6 hours ago –
Over the past year, marketplace customers jumped from 300 to 7,000, while gross merchandise volume grew 1,000%.
6 hours ago –
When Echodyne showed off its compact but intelligent
metamaterial radar system back in 2017, the applications seemed endless…
but some, like urban air mobility and autonomous vehicles, we’re still
waiting on. Fortunately the defense industry has buoyed the company up
during a couple tough years a...
The Verge
Google Cloud employee calculates pi to 100 trillion digits
3 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google Cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao has beaten her own
record from three years ago for the number of digits calculated for pi.
In 2019 she was able to calculate pi to its 31.4 trillionth digit, and
now, using the same Google Cloud y-cru...
3 days ago –
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson (far right) and Philippe
Baptiste, president of CNES, signing the Artemis Accords at the French
Ambassador’s Residence in Washington. | Image: NASA/Keegan Barber
On Tuesday evening, France officially signed onto NASA’s Artemis
Accords — the space agency’s se...
Apple’s giving up ground in its App Store fight with Dutch regulators and Tinder
2 days ago –
It’s changed the language users will see when they go to pay. |
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Apple announced on Friday that it once again updated its rules about
how Dutch dating apps can use third-party payment systems, after the
company had “productive conversations with the ...
3 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
One perk most wireless carriers offer to pull you to their side is a
free streaming video-on-demand subscription, but now AT&T won’t be
giving HBO Max to new customers, and hasn’t replaced it with a different
service either. The carrier stealthi...
Google to pay $118 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
a day ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Google is set to pay $118 million to settle a class-action gender
discrimination lawsuit that includes around 15,500 women (via
Bloomberg). As noted in the settlement’s press release, Google is also
required to have an independent labor economist ev...
For All Mankind’s first season is currently free to stream
8 hours ago –
For All Mankind’s third season just started. | Image: Apple
The first season of For All Mankind, the science fiction alternate
history show from Battlestar Galactica creator Ron D. Moore, is now
available to stream free of charge — no Apple TV Plus subscription
required. The limited time ...
a day ago –
Image: Activision Blizzard
Diablo IV, the next major release in Activision Blizzard’s popular
dungeon-crawling series, will be available in 2023, the company
announced Sunday. When it launches, it’ll be available on PC, Xbox
Series X / S, Xbox One, PS5, and PS4, and the game will have cro...
John Oliver exposes how Google and Amazon stifle competition
21 minutes ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Years ago, John Oliver galvanized his Last Week Tonight viewers to
join in the fight for net neutrality — instigating a flood of comments
that broke down the Federal Communications Commission’s website in 2014.
Last night, he turned his attention to...
5 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
On Sunday night, the Celsius Network, one of the largest crypto
lending platforms, abruptly announced a “pause” on withdrawals and
transfers, citing “extreme market conditions.” Celsius announced its
halt as markets in Asia opened on Monday morning,...
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