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Petra emerges from stealth with $30M raised for tunnel-boring robot, Swifty
Petra emerged from stealth this week, announcing a $30 million Series A. The round, led by DCVC, brings the robotics company’s funding up to $33 million, with additional participation from ACME Capi
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. flamethrower ships in time for summer BBQs
Elon Musk raised a significant chunk of money for his tunnel boring venture, the aptly named Boring Company, via sales of a heavily marked up ‘flamethrower’ with Boring Co. branding. Those
Elon Musk has now sold 15K flamethrowers, earning $7.5M for boring
The Boring Company is getting decently well-capitalized on the back of sales of its flamethrower (yes, flamethrower). The no-doubt overpriced piece of knack, which can be made yourself at home using l
Crunch Report | Elon Musk’s Tunnel Vision Gets Rendered
Elon Musk shows off a video about his tunnel boring company, The Boring Company, a self-driving Apple test vehicle is spotted in the wild and Cloudera and Carvana each price their IPO at $15; one does
Innovation: Where Can We Go From Here? A Lot Of Places, Actually
Just when you think that we’ve innovated all that we can, something new comes along and completely blows our mind. It could be an advancement in hardware, software or just a new way of thinking
CES 2011: Let The Boredom Begin!
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/4-yawning-kitten-2-18-08.jpeg">It's been a tough few years for the CE industry. GPS sales collapsed, the unfulfilled dream of 3D didn't b
OMHSDG!!! SNOW LEOPARD BOX
Seriously. Can’t Apple build some destroyer robots who battle each other in a ring of fire? Anything but the box art for OSX Snow Leopard, the Most Boring Update in Apple History ™?
Napster and AT&T team up to woo valuable "nobody" market by selling music over the air at $1.99 a song
Hey, hipsters! Put down your hacky-sacks for a few minutes and hear me lay down this smack! AT&T (the “Fun Network”) and Napster (“The service you used to steal all your music fr
Sony Ericsson Dropping Four New Phones on June 14th
Looks like S-E is finally releasing the Sofia and the Shinobu, along with two others, in an effort to sew up the musicphone market. I’m going to say “boooring, Sidney, boooring” to t
CrunchGear Boooring Edition: Samsung SGH-C140
Zzzzzz-wha!? Oh! It’s you. Welcome, welcome to another edition of CrunchGear’s Boooring Edition. This time around, we have the Samsung SGH-C140. Looking like a cellphone that you’d p
CES 2007 Booooring Edition: Franklin Spanish-English Translator
Actually, Blake loves this thing because it lets him speak to Raj without hassle. Franklin’s Spanish-English Translator gives you 800,000 translations to and from Spanish to English, it contains