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Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale

If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization projec

This year’s Met Gala theme is AI deepfakes

Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars take their boldest fashion risks of the year; unlike an award show,

Boeing Starliner’s first crewed mission scrubbed

Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight has been postponed “out of an abundance of caution” scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. The scrub is reportedly due to an issue with the

Wayve raises $1B to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers

Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the U.K.’s lar

The Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles

The feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake highlights technology’s increased role in rap beefs, in addition to how and when AI should be used in music.

TechCrunch Space: Launch pad decongestion

This week, we've got some very cool news from Hubble Networks, which became the first company in history to connect a Bluetooth chip to a satellite. The startup has stayed relatively low-profile, but

The Net Gala hosts its first event for the stylish and chronically online

Days before the Met Gala, New York’s young and techish partied at The Net Gala.

Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division

Lucid Motors’ senior vice president of digital Mike Bell has resigned from his position. The company said in a filing Monday that the longtime Apple and Intel executive’s resignation is &#

Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity

With U.S. regulators continuing to ramp up scrutiny, crypto startups and founders are looking to Hong Kong to support their growth.

DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion

As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign (which now prefers to go by Docusign, with a lowercase “S,” a PR rep

Opera’s AI assistant can now summarize web pages on Android 

Opera announced that Aria, its browser AI product built in collaboration with OpenAI, can now summarize text-based web pages on Android.

Apple iPad event: What to expect

So far, the biggest surprise about May 7’s “Let Loose” event is that it’s happening at all. We’re just over a month out from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and yet the comp

TechCrunch Minute: Newchip, Techstars and what happens when startup accelerators fail

Building a startup is hard. Building a company that helps startups is similarly difficult. That’s the takeaway from TechCrunch reporting on Techstars and Newchip. In the case of Newchip, the acc

Police resurrect LockBit’s site and troll the ransomware gang

An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the gr

How to choose a deep tech startup program

Deep tech founders often had to go it alone. But today, there are a wealth of options from incubators to accelerators. Here's how to pick one.

Dorsey leaves Bluesky, tech giants do more with less, and the next IPO

News that Jack Dorsey is out at Bluesky caused a stir this weekend. After all, Dorsey is a former Twitter co-founder and CEO, so his investment of time into the rival social network carried weight. Th

Apple iPad event 2024: Watch Apple unveil new iPads right here

We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. Tomorrow, May 7 at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the company is set to unveil the latest additions to the iP

Alphabet-owned Intrinsic incorporates Nvidia tech into robotics platform

The first bit of news out of the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event on Monday that it is incorporating a number of N

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models

OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partners

Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical o
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