Darrell Etherington
Managing Editor, U.S.
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Watch SpaceX try to launch Starship to orbit for the first time… again
SpaceX is launching its Starship rocket from its Starbase facility in southern Texas today — the first time it’s trying to fly the fully stacked version of the launch vehicle, which means
Curing disease with CRISPR with Trevor Martin from Mammoth Biosciences
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Trevor Martin the co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, a startup that uses CRISPR t
Goodbye to the fat middle
Adobe debuted its Firefly generative AI initiative last month, showcasing first a model trained on its own Adobe Stock images, and then yesterday it unveiled what it’s working on initially aroun
Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option aimed at hypersonic defense customers
Rocket Lab is adding a new offering to its suite of services: hypersonic suborbital launches. The new service will be available starting sometime in the first half of this year, when the company will
Twitter Blue vs Meta Verified and other TC news
Blue checkmarks on Twitter and Instagram are used by public figures and media outlets to say, “you can trust I am who I say I am and you can trust me.” But now both Twitter and Meta have changed t
Elon Musk admits he only bought Twitter because he thought he’d be forced to
Elon Musk gave a rare interview to an actual reporter late on Tuesday, speaking to BBC reporter James Clayton on Twitter Spaces. During the interview, Clayton pressed Musk on whether his purchase of T
Rebranding egg donation with Lauren Makler from Cofertility
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Lauren Makler, the co-founder and CEO of Cofertility, a startup looking to shake up egg d
Woolly mammoth de-extinction is definitely not about making real-life Pokémon
Colossal Biosciences bills itself as the “de-extinction company” and is seeking to bring back the woolly mammoth, the thylacine (aka the Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo. Onstage at this year
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy
Virgin Orbit, the low Earth orbit small-payload launch company that was spun out of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, has filed for bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Securities and Exchange C
A knife so sharp you don’t feel it cut
There’s an ongoing and heated debate about whether generative AI — like the technology that powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT — is either an overblown parlor trick or an existential thre
Building Generative AI before it was cool with Angela Hoover from Andi
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Angela Hoover, the co-founder and CEO of Andi, a program that uses generative AI to bring
Sonos Era 100 and Era 300 review: The next generation of great, reliable multi-room sound
Sonos Era 100 and Era 300 speaker review. Both speakers punch above their weight in terms of performance and value.
SEC puts Coinbase on notice and other TC news
Welcome to another episode of The TechCrunch Podcast where we break down the biggest stories in tech news with the people who cover it. This week, I talk with Taylor Hatmaker about the TikTok CEO’s
Relativity Space’s first launch fails to reach orbit, but proves its 3D-printing rocket tech works
Relativity Space has launched its first rocket, roughly eight years after it founded the 3D-printed space launch company.
Making more mammoths with Ben Lamm from Colossal
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Ben Lamm, the founder and CEO of Colossal, a genetics startup that looks to bring extinct
Amazon reveals terminal designs for Project Kuiper satellite internet
Amazon’s Project Kuiper has been working on building a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink low-Earth orbit-based satellite internet for years, but it’s on the verge of launching its firs
FDIC auction for SVB assets said to be underway
An auction for the remaining assets of the failed Silicon Valley Bank is reportedly underway, with final bids due this afternoon and a result potentially arriving late Sunday, according to Bloomberg.
SVB is already the talk of SXSW
Austin’s annual SXSW music, arts and tech festival officially kicked off today, and it’s already clear that there’s going to be at least one central focus for the show: The ongoing c
Gowalla returns to see if location-based networking is ready for its mainstream moment
Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Williams is heading to the annual SXSW music, technology and arts festival in Austin, Texas this year to do something he’s already done — launch a location-
Modernizing 911 calls with Michael Chime from Found
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Michael Chime, the co-founder and CEO of Prepared, a startup that allows 911 callers to s