This Week in Robotics: Chinese startups score a string of fundraising successes
[ad_1] Before we dive into this week’s biggest news within the robotics space, there’s an announcement of its own to highlight. We will receive several experts from the robotics industry in our first stage of hardware in TechCrunch outage 2023. The stage kicks off on the third day of Disrupt on September 21 and features…
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An episode of ‘South Park’ generated by AI, Microsoft’s security problems and the first version of Tesla’s Cybertruck
[ad_1] Hello friends, welcome to Summary of the week (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup from last week on tech. Too busy to check the headlines this week? Don’t worry. That’s why WiR exists: we’ll bring it up to date. This edition of WiR features pieces about a fake AI-generated “South Park” episode; the increasing downloads of…
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Control API sprawl
[ad_1] WWelcome to TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter of startups and markets. It is inspired by the TechCrunch+ daily column where it gets its name. Do you want it in your inbox every Saturday? Register here. today i’m looking for in a recent acquisition that shows the drive toward more resilient APIs. Also this week,…
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Deal Dive: Futureverse is a metaverse company that could get it done
[ad_1] startups that look like to improve an industry’s aging infrastructure are definitely welcome in sectors like financial services and healthcare. But why would a company build infrastructure for an industry that seems to have hit its prime and surpassed it in record time? That was my question when I saw the news about Futureverse’s…
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AOC will stream on Twitch again this weekend
[ad_1] three years after her big streaming momentrepresentative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will return to Twitch. The lawmaker and cultural icon turned casual twitch personality announced on Twitter that it would re-broadcast on Saturday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m. (likely ET) on his channel. We don’t know what’s in store yet, but Ocasio-Cortez will be joined by…
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Technological warriors in the battle for Israel’s democracy
[ad_1] erel daisy Taxpayer erel daisy is an Israeli high-tech investor, social entrepreneur, and former member of the Knesset. He is the founder and CEO of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of themed socio-economic hubs. Israel is a country that has fought for its existence…
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Congress Probes Ford’s Big Battery Deal With China’s CATL
[ad_1] In a public letter to Ford boss Jim Farley, House Republicans Mike Gallagher and Jason Smith announced that two congressional committees are investigating the automaker’s licensing deal with Chinese battery maker CATL. The investigation focuses on Ford’s efforts to use CATL’s battery cell technology in an upcoming $3.5 billion battery cell plant in Michigan.…
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Declining threads? Don’t write off Twitter’s new rival to Instagram just yet
[ad_1] TO Wall Street Journal article on Friday warns that Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is already losing steam. Citing third-party data from Sensor Tower, the paper reports that the number of daily active users on Threads dropped for a second week to 13 million, a 70% decline from a July 7 high. By comparison,…
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Foreign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals
[ad_1] Good news for those traveling to China! You can finally enjoy the hassle-free, cashless payment experience you may have heard about for years and avoid the awkward interaction of asking your local friends to pay and handing them paper money they can’t spend anywhere. This week, China’s two dominant mobile payment solutions, Wechat payment…
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Bolt and former CEO Ryan Breslow are under investigation by the SEC
[ad_1] Ryan Breslow, co-founder of e-commerce software team Bolt, was subpoenaed along with the company last year by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Information first reported the news on Friday.. A letter written in April by a lawyer representing Bolt’s investors said the SEC was investigating whether federal securities laws were violated in…
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