Even an expensive new Mac couldn’t save Apple’s stock today
It is TechCrunch tradition to look at Apple’s stock price during and after its major events. Why? Because we enjoy it, and we’re always curious what impact the company’s news…
Apple introduces a brand new Mac, the Mac Studio
Apple announced a handful of new products in a pre-recorded online event. And the company announced a brand new desktop computer called the Mac Studio. It’s a small tower computer…
Watch Apple unveil new devices live right here
Apple is set to announce new hardware today. The company is holding a (virtual) event at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. in New York, 6 p.m. in London, 7 p.m.…
Chinese Spies Hacked a Livestock App to Breach US State Networks
Vulnerabilities in animal tracking software USAHERDS and Log4j gave the notorious APT41 group a foothold in multiple government systems. Source: Wired Security
General Motors, PG&E pilot EVs as backup power sources for homes
General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric Company are launching a pilot that will let EV owners use their vehicles as a backup power source for their homes during an…
War Is Calling Crypto’s ‘Neutrality’ Into Question
War in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Russia have made cryptocurrency a hot potato for international politics. Source: Wired Security
Critical Bugs Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Medical Devices
The so-called Access:7 vulnerabilities are the latest high-profile IoT security fumble. Source: Wired Security
The Station: Tier buys Spin, Waymo gets to charge for robotaxi and Tesla needs a Tim Cook
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Samsung suspends product shipments to Russia
Samsung Electronics has suspended shipments of all products to Russia “due to the current geopolitical developments,” the company said on Saturday. “We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to…
Tracking the future of crypto controversy
Hello readers, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, I talked about the environmental impacts of crypto with Kimbal Musk, early Tesla investor and brother of Elon. This…
From beer waste to ‘plastic’ packaging, Mi Terro downs $1.5M to make the world more biodegradable
A shrewd entrepreneur joins the 100+ accelerator program sponsored by brewing giant AB Inbev and home consumables emporium Unilever, and spots a pattern. The breweries have tons of spent grain,…
Elon Musk challenges UAW to hold a union vote at Tesla’s California factory
Mariella Moon Contributor Mariella Moon is an associate editor at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Tesla raises prices across its entire EV lineup Elon Musk challenges UAW to hold…
TrueCircle scoops $5.5M to use AI to drive recycling efficiency
UK-based TrueCircle, a computer vision startup founded just last year, has nabbed $5.5 million in pre-seed funding in a bid to bring data-driven AI to the recycling industry to improve…
Apple’s next event is March 8
Invites just went out for Apple’s next big event, scheduled for 10 AM PT (1 PM ET) on March 8. It will be an online event broadcasting from Apple Park.…
Carl Pei’s Nothing is working on a smartphone
Seven years after co-founding OnePlus, Carl Pei left the smartphone maker in 2020 to launch his own venture. The company that became Nothing has, to date, launched a single product:…
Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply
Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and…
Elon Musk and Tesla need a Tim Cook
The same story has played out for decades. A startup blossoms and thrives under the leadership of a larger-than-life personality. A plateau soon follows. The company’s focus moves from introducing…
Daily Crunch: Asian and Hispanic e-grocer Weee! bags $425 million Series E
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Stämm Biotech raises $17M for its next-generation, 3D printed bioreactor
In the past year, there’s been a lot of hype around biomanufacturing — from growing cell-based meat to microbe-powered medicine manufacturing. But none of synthetic biology’s darlings can exist without…
Panasonic will start making Tesla’s higher-capacity EV batteries by March 2024
Kris Holt Contributor Share on Twitter Kris Holt is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Intel plans to build a $19 billion chip plant in Germany…
Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M
Netflix helped change the game for microservices when it developed and the outsourced a tool called Conductor, initially built to handle its own extensive, multi-channel on-demand video traffic (and correspondingly…
The Station: Dispatches from a US-Ukrainian startup, Waymo gets a trade secret win and Rivian’s production strategy
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Day One Ventures adds climate-focused partner Sanjiv Sanghavi
Day One Ventures — which, among other things, invested in Superhuman, Truebill, DuckDuckGo and others — is bringing on ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as a partner focusing exclusively on climate…
Should we be growing trees in the desert to combat climate change?
Reforestation is one of our best tools to fight the climate crisis. In the tropics, forests have been reported to absorb 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.…
Immune to irony, Nori puts a carbon market on the blockchain
The Ethereum blockchain isn’t exactly the first thing that springs to mind when you’re thinking of solutions to climate problems, but that’s what Nori has built as an engine to…
This mechanical keyboard is something else
The market for mechanical keyboards has boomed in recent years and the pandemic only added fuel to it as people looked to improve their home setups (and spend their stimulus…
Tesla gets wrist slap from EPA for violating Clean Air Act
Tesla has agreed to pay a $275,000 fine in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act at its electric vehicle manufacturing plant…
The Station: DeLorean teases an EV, VW and Huawei are ‘talking’ and feds investigate Tesla
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Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year
Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint…
The WIRED Guide to Self-Driving Cars
How a chaotic skunkworks race in the desert launched what’s poised to be a runaway global industry. Source: Wired Guides
What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
What you need to know about the promise (and peril) of networked lightbulbs, ovens, cameras, speakers and, well … everything. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to 5G
Here’s everything you’ll ever want to know about the spectrum, millimeter-wave technology, and why 5G could give China an edge in the AI race. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Crispr
Everything you need to know about how scientists can repurpose a bacterial immune system to alter DNA, making everything from cheap insulin to extra starchy corn. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Net Neutrality
ISPs shouldn’t be able to block some sorts of data and prioritize others—here’s what to know about the struggle to treat information on the internet the same. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Robots
Everything you wanted to know about soft, hard, and nonmurderous automatons. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Climate Change
The world is getting warmer, the weather is getting worse. Here’s everything you need to know about what humans can do to stop wrecking the planet. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Virtual Reality
Everything you ever wanted to know about VR headsets, Oculus, Vive, and simulator sickness. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
In an age of nonstop breaches and hacks, here are ways to improve your online security based on your level of risk, from average user to NSA contractor. Source: Wired…
The WIRED Guide to Influencers
Everything you need to know about engagement, power likes, sponcon, and trust. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Genetic Testing
Everything you need to know about DNA, medical breakthroughs, and genetic privacy. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Cyberwar
The threat of cyberwar looms over the future: a new dimension of conflict capable of leapfrogging borders and teleporting the chaos of war to civilians thousands of miles beyond its…
The WIRED Guide to the Blockchain
It’s super secure and slightly hard to understand, but the idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Aliens
Everything you need to know about SETI, the Drake equation, ’Oumuamua, and hot tubs. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Cannabis
Everything you need to know about THC, CBD, terpenes, and the entourage effect. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Your Personal Data (and Who Is Using It)
Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
Everything you need to know about Blue Origin, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and what actually happens to your body if you go live in space. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Data Breaches
Everything you ever wanted to know about Equifax, Mariott, and the problem with social security numbers. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to the iPhone
Its influence goes far beyond other phones—the infrastructure that made the iPhone also enabled drones, smart-home gadgets, wearables, and self-driving cars. Source: Wired Guides
The WIRED Guide to Online Shopping (and Digital Retail Too)
Everything you have ever wanted to know about Amazon, data privacy, and register-free stores. Source: Wired Guides