Mickey 17, the next film from Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, is out in 2024
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures You’ll have to wait a bit to see Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s next project. The sci-fi film, called Mickey 17, will hit theaters on March 29th, 2024. The news was revealed via the briefest of teaser trailers, which shows star Robert Pattinson hanging around shirtless in some kind of tube. The … Read more
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Ledger Partners With iPod Creator Tony Fadell to Build Latest Hardware Wallet
The Ledger Stax is a stylish device that features an e-ink display that can show transaction details and even NFTs on its exterior.
Cacheflow doubles valuation while raising $10M, proving that the venture market is far from dead
Cacheflow, a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, announced this morning that it closed $10 million in new capital. Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told TechCrunch that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon (GGV) to its board and brought new investor Crystal Huang (GV) … Read more
The impact of CBDCs on stablecoins with Bitget’s Gracy Chen
While CBDCs will cater to local demands, cooperation between countries could facilitate and support the widespread adoption of readily-available stablecoins.
Axiom launches its automated identity and access management platform
Axiom, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on automating identity and access management (IAM) for developer platforms, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7 million seed round led by S Capital. The idea here is to provide a single platform that provides developers with easy access to the tools they need and … Read more
Kodiak Robotics wins $50M to help US Army build AVs for recon, surveillance
Autonomous trucking technology company Kodiak Robotics won a $49.9 million contract from the the U.S. Department of Defense to help the Army automate future ground vehicles to conduct high-risk missions like reconnaissance and surveillance. The two year contract, which was awarded by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on behalf of the Army’s Robotic Combat … Read more
Early-stage startups say no runway, no problem heading into 2023
Startup funding continues to dwindle and layoffs keep making headlines as 2023 nears. And yet, pre-seed and seed companies don’t seem to be enduring the same state of panic as their more mature startup peers. A recent survey of 450 early-stage founders in the U.S. and Europe by pre-seed-focused January Ventures found that despite current … Read more
Oda, the Norwegian grocery delivery startup, raises a fresh $151M, but at a lowered valuation of $353M
Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda, one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and … Read more
Snapchat’s latest Bitmoji Drop features exclusive Adidas merch, but there’s a price tag
Snapchat announced today that it’s partnering with Adidas to launch a new Bitmoji Fashion Drop, giving users access to exclusive merchandise for a limited time. The partnership will allow users to use Snap Tokens to purchase an exclusive Adidas track jacket for their Bitmoji. Snap Tokens, which were first introduced in 2020, can be purchased … Read more
Here’s what’s happening today at TC Sessions: Space 2022
All systems are go, and we have liftoff! TC Sessions: Space 2022 is live, and we can’t wait to meet the people building the technologies and creating new opportunities that will take us into and beyond the cosmos. As you can see from the event agenda, you’re in for an exciting day. Here’s a quick … Read more
MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation
It’s tough in the current economic climate to hire and retain engineers focused on system admin, DevOps and network architecture. In a recent Gartner survey, IT executives cited talent shortages as the top barrier to adopting emerging technologies. Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming … Read more
Flow Engineering wants to modernize the hardware engineering design process
Software engineers have a host of tooling to organize their projects, chief being Git software like GitLab or GitHub, but hardware engineers today lack that same organizing principle. They are stuck with a bunch of tech that doesn’t communicate well with each other, leaving them to build Excel spreadsheets to organize their work, a method … Read more
The RadTrike is Rad Power Bikes’ first electric three-wheeler — and I got to test it out
Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge Rad Power Bikes, the number one seller of e-bikes in North America, discovers that when it comes to power, stability, and fun, three is the magic number. Continue reading…
Kodiak gets $50 million to develop self-driving reconnaissance vehicles for the US Army
Image: Kodiak Robotics Kodiak Robotics, the autonomous truck startup, will receive $49.9 million to help the US Army develop self-driving vehicles for reconnaissance, surveillance, and other “high-risk” missions. The Mountain View, California-based company, which primarily builds self-driving systems for freight trucks, will develop the vehicles for the US Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle program. The collaboration … Read more
You can now play some Ubisoft games you own for PC on Amazon’s cloud gaming service
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is one of the games you’ll be able to play on Luna if you already own it. | Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft and Amazon will now let you play some titles you own for PC via Ubisoft Connect on Amazon’s Luna cloud gaming service, the two companies announced on Tuesday. That means it … Read more
Alchemy Releases Web3 App Store to Streamline Dapp Access
Alchemy aims to build trust among developers and blockchain-curious users as they explore the space via one streamlined interface.
BTC difficulty drops by the biggest margin since 2021
Bitcoin mining difficulty has dropped by its biggest margin since July 2021 amid difficult conditions for miners.
Paraguay Votes Down Crypto Regulatory Bill in a Blow to Crypto Mining Industry
The bill would cap how much the grid operator can charge bitcoin miners for electricity.
African fintech unicorn Chipper Cash lays off about 12.5% of staff
Chipper Cash, an African cross-border payments company valued at $2.2 billion last year, has laid off a portion of its workforce. Yesterday, a few affected and non-affected employees took to LinkedIn to reveal the news. TechCrunch has learned from sources that over 50 employees were affected across multiple departments; the engineering team took the biggest … Read more
MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering
A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. MergeStat, as the startup is known, has flown under the radar until now, but with plans to launch a commercial product … Read more
Bitcoin advocate dishes out sats over Lightning Network to raise BTC awareness
A Twitter user from the United Kingdom spent hours sending micropayments to strangers on the internet to demonstrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Robinhood banks on retirement to slow user attrition
Retail trading app Robinhood is entering the retirement game. The Menlo Park, California-based company today launched a waitlist for its new offering, Robinhood Retirement, which it describes as the “first and only” individual retirement account (IRA) with a 1% match on every eligible dollar contributed. The move is a big bet on the part of … Read more