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The grip Twitter, now called X, has on the market may be stronger than some believed. Unfortunately, that’s led to the first casualty among Twitter alternatives, as the startup Pebble (formerly T2), is shutting down. The would-be X rival had grown a small but engaged community on its microblogging service that aimed to dupe Twitter’s […]

Even with some criticisms, most VC think that the state’s effort to track diversity data is worth it. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The federal government’s approach to hydrogen is strikingly similar to the way it promoted biofuels a decade ago. That’s not a good thing. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

As first reported in Bloomberg, Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, the now 14-year-old conference business that he cofounded and which has gone on to host one of Europe’s biggest annual tech events, along with four other events around the globe. The move comes on the heels of remarks Cosgrave made

There are some major, fundamental problems with this deck that makes the company pretty much impossible to invest in. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Autonomous vehicle companies use simulators to train their self-driving systems and teach them how to react to “agents” — things like pedestrians, cyclists, traffic signals and other cars. To have a truly advanced AV system, those agents need to behave and react realistically to the AV and to each other. Creating and training intelligent agents

Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open-source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure Incubation team, the same group that previously launched open-source projects like Dapr for building microservices, the KEDA event-driven autoscaling solution, and Copacetic, a security tool for

Lucid said Tuesday it delivered 1,457 of its luxury all-electric Air sedans in the third quarter, missing Wall Street expectations by about 500 vehicles. Perhaps more troubling is the year-over-year comparison. Lucid delivered 1,398 vehicles in the third quarter of 2022, meaning growth over the past year is nearly flat. It was the same story

Earlier this month, LinkedIn announced that it would roll out a raft of new AI-powered tools across the business. Today, it’s making a different kind of announcement focused on the future: the company is laying off 668 employees. We understand from a reliable source that the majority of the layoffs, some 563, will be in

Induction cooking has the potential to liberate us to rethink the kitchen, but new designs have been slow to arrive. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.