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The backlash is only set to heat up come the 2024 election. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search had some weird indexing/serving issues starting earlier today...... →

As if last year’s fabulous Dual Asteroid Redirection Test firing a satellite bullet into an asteroid wasn’t enough, now researchers are doing detailed simulation of the nuclear deflection scenario envisioned in 1998 space disaster film Armageddon. At Lawrence Livermore National Lab, a team led by Mary Burkey (above) presented a paper that moves the ball […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Editor’s note: There won’t be a newsletter on 12/28; hope you all have a happy holidays and talk to you in the new year! It seems […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Now that Adobe is no longer part of the picture, how Figma sailed through this period of uncertainty suggests it will come out of this saga relatively unscathed. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Intuitive Machines is pushing back the mission of its first lunar lander to mid-February in coordination with launch provider SpaceX, the company said earlier this week. The Houston, Texas-based company said that the new launch window “comes after unfavorable weather conditions resulted in shifts in the SpaceX launch manifest.” The new launch target date, which […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

2023 was an absolute unit of a year for gaming. No one could possibly have played all the awesome titles that came out across platforms. I certainly didn’t. But that also means that you have options for grabbing a last-minute gift for that gamer in your life! I’ve gathered a few of the best titles […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The FTC has proposed tightening up the rules protecting kids from the surveillance economy. The updated rules would require companies to get the OK from parents before sharing data with advertisers and prohibit holding onto data for nebulous “internal operations,” among other things. “The proposed changes to COPPA are much-needed, especially in an era where […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Warden thinks one of the biggest avenues for real world use cases is tokenization of assets and areas that aren’t even tradable yet. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, many Chinese tech companies find themselves recalibrating their overseas pursuits, often sidestepping any reference to their origin. One bold startup called DP Technology stands out from the crowd. Working to apply artificial intelligence to molecular simulations, DP, short for “Deep Potential”, believes that the unifying power of “scientific research for humanity” […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Beeper is giving up on its mission to bring iMessage to Android after implementing a series of fixes that Apple has knocked down one by one over the past month. Although the company has issued a workaround, it says it has no plans to roll out another one if this one is knocked down by […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year and growing. Earlier this year, mass workforce reductions were driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups across many sectors also […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Will 2024 be the year you do whatever it takes to move your startup ambitions to the next level? Heck, yeah! In that entrepreneurial spirit, we’re offering you a holiday gift wrapped inside a New Year’s resolution you’ll actually want to keep. Take 20% off the already low launch price on founder and investor passes […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google is launching a few updates to Chrome on desktop this week that aim to make your browsing experience a bit safer and give you more control over your browser’s memory usage. The marquee feature for this update is proactive Safety Check. Starting with version 120, which actually launched a few weeks ago, desktop Chrome’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

“Shall I say thou art a man, that hast all the symptoms of a beast? How shall I know thee to be a man? By thy shape? That affrights me more, when I see a beast in likeness of a man.” — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy I propose that software be prohibited from […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If you or someone you know is looking for a gift to spoil the cuddliest creatures on the planet – our pets – there are several strong contenders that are worth checking out. From smart cameras that provide 24/7 surveillance on your mischievous pup to interactive toys, self-rolling balls and water fountains for cats, here […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A deep dive into the data from startup accounting firm Kruze Consulting shows that startups that can keep an eye on the fundamentals are in pretty decent shape. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If successful, the new round could be a step up from the $18.8M Series A EVCS raised in July 2022. But it could also represent a tempering of expectations. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Instead of forcing a technology onto a product, the design process flows to the technologies. In this way, the technology becomes a natural solution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. The companies did not share the purchase price. Isovalent has helped develop eBPF, a key open source technology that gives developers deep insight into the operating system […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →