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Indian ride-hailing giant Ola quits UK, Australia and NZ in international pullback
Indian ride-hailing giant Ola is shutting down its operations in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, six years after expanding to international markets as it shifts focus to shoring up its domestic business ahead of an initial public offering. An Ola spokesperson told TechCrunch that […]
Elon Musk says his posts did more to ‘financially impair’ X than help it
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk admitted that his posts on the platform formerly known as Twitter may have financially harmed the company in the long run, in a March 27th deposition made public on Monday by The Huffington Post. The […]
Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
Sprinto, a startup offering a security compliance and risk platform, has raised $20 million in new investment led by Accel. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Reshape wants to help ‘decode nature’ by automating the ‘visual’ part of lab experiments
Reshape has developed a robotic imaging system replete with software and AI models to help scientists track visual changes from Petri dishes and similar plate formats. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Can you watch a solar eclipse in the Apple Vision Pro?
Image: Apple This morning, remembering I’d forgotten to order eclipse glasses, I wondered out loud: Would it be an absolutely awful idea to watch today’s solar eclipse on the Apple Vision Pro? I’m extremely not a camera expert, but I seem to recall that pointing […]
Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal Model X crash that killed an Apple engineer
Back in 2019, the family of Apple engineer Wei Lun Huang (aka Walter Huang) sued Tesla a year after he was killed when his Model X crashed into a median in Mountain View while Autopilot was engaged. That case is officially closed, now that the […]
Logitech’s tiny G Pro X 60 gaming keyboard has some big competition
Logitech has unveiled the G Pro X 60, its latest mechanical gaming keyboard. Similar to the peripheral maker’s G Pro X TKL from last year, this is a wireless model aimed at competitive-minded gamers first and foremost. Unlike that device, it has a smaller 60 […]
TikTok’s Instagram competitor likely to be named TikTok Notes
TikTok’s upcoming Instagram competitor app for sharing photos could be named TikTok Notes, according to screenshots posted by users. TikTok also confirmed the app was in development. Over the last few days, TikTok users have been getting pop-up notifications about a new TikTok Notes app […]
Drones that charge on power lines may not be the best idea
Battery life has long been a key limiting factor in drone use. Although there are commercial models that can stay aloft for 45 minutes or longer on a single charge, being able to keep drones in the air for longer would be helpful for many […]