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Another Mars robot is settling in for a long, long sleep. With dust caking its solar panels, InSight has been losing the ability to recharge for months — in the spring, it was operating at just one-tenth of its landing power. Now, the thick layers of dust might have doomed InSight for good. NASA announced […] NASA’s InSight mission is winding down — look back at the Mars lander’s many accomplishments by Stefanie Waldek originally published on TechCrunch... →

The pros of raising party rounds dry up quickly when the market turns — and a lot of startups are starting to realize that. More investors, more problems by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Tuesday in a hearing about Meta’s acquisition of Within, the VR company that makes the fitness app Supernatural. In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Meta in an attempt to block the deal, which the government agency alleges is anti-competitive. The hearing comes at […] FTC puts Zuckerberg on the stand over Meta’s plan to acquire Within by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

In August, Drop announced its first new in-house mechanical keyboard in quite a while: the 75% Drop Sense75. On paper, the $349 gasket-mount keyboard looked like a winner, with an understated but classy design, Drop’s DCX keycaps, in-house stabilizers and its Holy Panda X tactile switches. The final result is a bit of a disappointment, […] The Drop Sense75 is not the keyboard you’ve been waiting for by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Cruise has soft-launched its robotaxi service in Phoenix and Austin, making its own deadline to enter two new markets before the end of 2022. The GM-backed company has until now only operated its ridehail service in San Francisco, where it launched a fully driverless commercial service over the summer. “In both Phoenix and Austin we […] Cruise soft-launches robotaxi rides in Phoenix and Austin by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

TechCrunch+ collected book recommendations from both venture capitalists and founders. Here we have investor favorites, and we'll follow up with notes from founders tomorrow. The best books that venture capitalists read in 2022 by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

The knotty issue of how Ukraine’s now-critical Starlink satellite internet should be paid for has been at least temporarily resolved, according to the country’s minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov. It appears that a few European Union nations have decided it’s in everyone’s interest to keep the country online as the Russian invasion persists. In […] Ukraine lines up 10,000 more Starlink terminals as funding issues are ‘resolved’ by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

The chief gaming officer at NFT marketplace Magic Eden sees the traditional and web gaming worlds coming together. Magic Eden exec sees NFT gaming like the ‘early days of mobile gaming’ by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

Scooter company Bird is certainly down, but it’s not yet out.  The five-year-old firm says that it and Bird Canada — a separate, private company that licenses Bird’s software and name — will merge “as soon as possible,” with an “estimated total of $32 million in new financing” from Bird Canada’s investors, “$4 million of […] Bird tanks on word that a Canadian company is saving its bacon by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Amazon has announced that Fire TV users in the U.S. can now watch tens of thousands of music videos from major and independent labels for free. No downloads, fees or subscriptions are required to watch the music videos. The ad-supported music videos will be available from artists on the Billboard Hot 100, including Taylor Swift, […] Amazon adds free music videos, viral videos and more ad-supported content to Fire TV by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Relying on vanity metrics are like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner! TechCrunch+ roundup: Vanity metric dangers, planning for failure, Black founders survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch... →

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca catch up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […] Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

Речь идёт об активах, которые учитывались в НРД до 3 июня 2022 года, а сама лицензия действует до 7 января 2023-го.... →

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in 1 to 2 minutes on a single […] OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Solo GP Nichole Wischoff told TechCrunch that she is hoping to fund "American dynamism … the real one. This VC is bullish about American dynamism – ‘the real one’ by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

Vercel, the popular front-end development platform, now allows you to comment directly on preview deployments, using a highly visual commenting system that is similar to Figma’s. The company had been testing this feature since September and it’s now generally available to all users. As Vercel co-founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch told me, the idea here […] Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

It’s been a year. This roundup is never a particularly fun one to write. No one wants to see startups fail, but we’re all keenly aware that most ultimately do. A commonly cited figure suggest that 90% of these companies will ultimately fail. But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. The previous […] Remembering the startups we lost in 2022 by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

До этого максимальный размер взыскания составлял 3 млн рублей... →

Microsoft says a vulnerability it discovered in a core macOS security feature, Gatekeeper, could have allowed attackers to compromise vulnerable Macs with malware. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-42821, was first uncovered by Microsoft principal security researcher Jonathan Bar Or, and dubbed the “Achilles” vulnerability. Bar Or said the bug could allow malware to skirt Gatekeeper’s […] Apple fixes bug that let malicious apps skirt macOS’ security protections by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch... →