В интернете

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. Ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […] Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

Waymo will begin testing its autonomous Jaguar I-Paces without a human safety operator in Los Angeles in the next couple of weeks. This is the company’s next step on its path to commercializing robotaxi services in its second California city. To start, only employees will be able to hail rides in the driverless robotaxis. While […] Waymo to test driverless rides with employees in Los Angeles by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

The FTC, fresh off announcing a whole new division taking on “snake oil” in tech, has sent another shot across the bows of the over-eager industry with a sassy warning to “keep your AI claims in check.” I wrote a little while ago (okay, five years) that “AI Powered” is the meaningless tech equivalent of […] FTC warns tech: ‘Keep your AI claims in check’ by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Chris Rock is a widely beloved comic; he’s also a savvy entrepreneur. Though Rock might have talked with media outlets about being assaulted by actor-producer Will Smith last March during the Academy Awards — he could have also chosen to sue Smith — he instead stayed mum, turning “the slap” into material for his first […] Chris Rock to address ‘The Slap’ in Netflix’s first livestreamed broadcast this Saturday by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch... →

After several rounds of layoffs, Twitter’s staff is down from about 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 — and one of the numerous cuts across the company eliminated the platform’s entire accessibility team last year. In an open letter to Elon Musk, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) called on the new Twitter owner to bring the […] Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

A new Mastodon app called Mammoth has already gained 10,000 downloads in the first few days of its availability on the App Store. The app was built by a team that includes the developer of the Aviary app for Twitter, which was among those unceremoniously killed by Twitter earlier this year after new owner Elon […] Mammoth is a free Mastodon app for iOS that makes it easier to get started by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. Daily Crunch: Mobile World Congress 2023 kicks off with new features for Android, Chromebook and Wear OS by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Today we're thinking of the four astronauts heading to the International Space Station. See you guys soon! Max Q: It’s the final countdown by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

TikTok has been banned from government-issued mobile devices in Canada, the country’s Treasury Board announced Monday. Taking effect on February 28, this block follows similar actions taken by the European Commission and some state governments in the U.S. The European Commission issued their directive to remove TikTok from government devices late last week. That same […] Canada bans TikTok on government devices by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

Emily Kramer is well known in the marketing world, both for her professional expertise and her voice. The entrepreneur was Carta’s former VP of marketing and made headlines in 2020 when she filed a lawsuit that accused the company of gender discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and of violating the California Equal Pay Act. Now, three […] Who markets marketing? This duo started a VC firm to scale what ‘founders are starving for’ by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Astroscale, a company that’s developing technology to service satellites and clean up orbital debris, has closed another round of funding and widened its investor pool to include a space enthusiast billionaire and a major Japanese manufacturing multinational. The Series G round comes in at more than $76 million, bringing the company’s total funding to date […] Astroscale closes new funding to grow in-orbit servicing and orbital debris cleanup tech by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

In a new filing late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Google “routinely destroyed” an entire category of written communications in its antitrust investigation against the company. The communications — chat messages between Google employees — were deleted over the course of several years, the DoJ stated. A similar issue had been […] DoJ accuses Google of deleting chats in its antitrust investigation, similar to Fortnite’s case by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Reddit announced today that users can now search comments within a post on desktop, iOS and Android. With this latest update, you no longer have to “Cmd-F” or “Ctrl-F” on a post page, as you can now search comment threads without having to expand them. The feature lets you quickly find the information you’re looking […] Reddit now lets you search comments within a post by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome back to Inside Startup Battlefield, the TechCrunch podcast where we take you behind the scenes of one of tech’s top startup competitions. There are 180 companies solving crucial problems that didn’t make it to the Disrupt stage, but that doesn’t mean they’re making any less of an impact. In this episode, TechCrunch writers Devin Coldewey […] Inside Startup Battlefield: Getting to know the Battlefield 200 by Maggie Stamets originally published on TechCrunch... →

Four years after the dawn of the VSCO Girl, VSCO wants you to know that it’s still very much alive. Photographers and other aesthetically inclined creators still flock to the app’s suite of tools, which imbue the editing process with joy while still providing the creative control that visual artists value. If you wouldn’t be […] VSCO is growing into a legit social network for photographers by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

The automotive sector's ups and downs can make big bets hard to place. And yet the money keeps flowing. What's behind the bravado? Why so many gigafactories? It’s not just EVs driving demand by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch... →

If it wasn’t clear earlier this year when Sony and Honda revealed the concept Afeela EV, it is now: This new joint-venture concept car is all about leveraging entertainment. The company, known as Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) is a joint venture between the Japanese entertainment and tech giant Sony, and the Japanese automaker, Honda. It […] Inside the Sony-Honda Afeela concept by Abigail Bassett originally published on TechCrunch... →

Игра от российской студии Mundfish обошла по популярности Hogwarts Legacy и другие проекты... →

Авторы инициативы считают, что идеология идёт в разрез с традиционными семейными ценностями... →