Huawei is at the center of a fresh scandal in Europe, following reports that lobbyists representing the Chinese tech titan bribed members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to curry favor with lawmakers. After being cast out of the U.S. market over fears that its telecommunications […]
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Travis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: “Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product”
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., “Look, [new management] killed the autonomous car project we had going […]
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is launching today to rescue stranded astronauts
With favorable weather forecast at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is set to launch at 7:49PM ET tonight. Flying into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon spacecraft, will dock with the ISS at around 6:00AM ET on […]
Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is worried about spies getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’ top AI companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook
Meta has notched an early victory in its attempt to halt a surprise tell-all memoir from a former policy executive turned whistleblower. An arbitrator has sided with the social media company, saying that the book’s author should stop selling and publicizing the book, which went […]
UK investigation says Apple and Google are ‘holding back’ mobile browsers
The United Kingdom’s mobile browser market is “not working well for consumers and businesses” according to a final report from Britain’s competition watchdog, which says that Apple and Google are largely to blame. An independent inquiry group has concluded its mobile browsers investigation for the […]
iOS 18.4 introduces a new default navigation app choice, but only in Europe
When it goes live, iOS 18.4 will allow some users to set a default navigation app other than Apple Maps. The software of choice can be set from the Settings app by going to Apps, then to Default Apps, then to Navigation. This way, users […]
Spectre Divide and its developer are shutting down
Spectre Divide, a Valorant-like free-to-play shooter where you control two bodies, is shutting down just months after its September launch. “We were optimistic about the first week,” developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. “We’ve had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count […]
Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed
Editorâs note: Ahead of Microsoftâs 50thâs anniversary, weâve fixed the layout on this story â which we originally published in 2012 when Windows 8 launched. Nowâs a good time to revisit our look at an operating system that helped shape personal computing over the years. […]
Travis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: “Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product”
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., “Look, [new management] killed the autonomous car project we had going […]