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Dyson has been secretly building robots
You probably know Dyson for their vacuums, or maybe that too-powerful dryer you’ve tentatively stuck your hands in while waiting for a flight. Maybe you’ve seen their hair dryers or fans. Dyson is
Sequoia Capital plays Nostradamus (again)
Sequoia Capital, the storied, 50-year-old venture firm, has become known over the years for using sweeping memos to warn the founders in its portfolio about market shifts after the shift has become so
Pony.ai loses permit to test autonomous vehicles with driver in California
The California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked Pony.ai’s permit to test its autonomous vehicle technology with a driver on Tuesday for failing to monitor the driving records of the safety d
Daily Crunch: 7 months after raising $1B, grocery delivery Gorillas exits four countries and lays off 300
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Bumble is planning to expand further into social networking with a new communities feature
Dating platform Bumble is looking to enhance its non-dating social features with a further investment into its Bumble BFF feature, first launched in 2016. This friend-finding feature currently uses th
Kim Kardashian lends her taste buds to Beyond Meat as first chief taste consultant
She will also be featured in a new campaign touting her recipes for using Beyond Meat and other creative content.
TechCrunch Live is going to Columbus, OH — register and apply for the pitch-off!
TechCrunch Live is thrilled to announce a special event centered around Columbus, Ohio. On June 1, 2022, our crew is hosting an extended TechCrunch Live episode with Columbus investors, founders and b
Mastercard exec is bullish on crypto, sees mass adoption ‘sooner rather than later’
Mass adoption of blockchain technology and digital assets is going to happen sooner rather than later, according to Mastercard’s VP of new product development and innovation, Harold Bossé.
A single question changed how Singularity viewed its market
One conversation with a customer changed how Wenbo Shi viewed his product and, ultimately, his company.
Netflix is adding four more games this month, including Exploding Kittens
Netflix has announced four more games that are launching on its platform this month, including a new Exploding Kittens game that is based on a popular card game and will also be tied to an upcoming Ne
Robotic rehabilitation glove wins Microsoft’s 20th Imagine Cup for student inventors
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is something I look forward to every year. The students and young entrepreneurs who submit their extremely early-stage projects to this global competition are like the se
Shellworks wants to crack makeup’s single-use plastic problem
Is the beauty industry ready to wean itself off single-use plastic? Shellworks is betting on it. Targeting cosmetics brands, the London-based biotech startup has scooped up a $6.2 million seed round t
Questions arise on Y Combinator’s role in startup correction
Some are pointing the finger not just at late-stage capital pools that poured too much liquidity into the startup market -- some startup players are irked at accelerators, Y Combinator in particular.
Twitter rebrands its media website to focus on creators with a new ‘Create’ hub
Twitter announced today that it has rebranded its Twitter Media website to “Twitter Create.” The social media giant says the website is a new hub for creators to access resources, product
DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract
DuckDuckGo, the self-styled “internet privacy company” — which, for years, has built a brand around a claim of non-tracking web search and, more recently, launched its own ‘pri
Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha: I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
My third startup had been in the market only a year when the internet bubble burst and had not yet found product-market fit.
Niantic transcends Discord to build Campfire, an AR social app, and unveils Lightship VPS
Since the launch of Pokémon Go in 2016, players have been coordinating meetups, in-game raids and battles on platforms like Reddit and Discord. This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfi
PlanetScale expands its database service with built-in performance monitoring and more
PlanetScale, the highly scalable MySQL database service founded by the co-creators of the increasingly popular Vitess open source project, today announced a series of updates that push the platform be
Stellantis to build new battery plant in Indiana
Stellantis and Samsung SDI said on Tuesday they will team up to build a $2.5 billion lithium-ion battery plant in Indiana.
Google TV is finally launching personalized user profiles after a long delay
After being delayed for months, it’s about time that Google rolls out its personalized profiles for Google TV. According to the company, users will get profiles “over the next few weeks.” In O