Google Maps Disables Live Traffic Data in Israel and Gaza
Google Maps and Waze have disabled live traffic updates for areas of Israel and the Gaza Strip at the request of the Israeli military, according to...
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Doesn’t Want Americans to Read This Blog Post
Where do we start with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO’s startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman’s disquieting plan to...
So how about another 20 IPOs?
One key area of private-market performance that we haven’t yet given enough attention to is the matter of exits. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
NASA Is Struggling to Open Its Asteroid Sample Container
About a month ago, pristine samples from an asteroid landed on Earth while enclosed within a tight capsule. The sample canister was designed to keep the...
Mike Flanagan’s Next Stephen King Adaptation Adds to Its Marvelous Cast
Loki’s Tom Hiddleston is already aboard as The Life of Chuck’s title character, and Mark Hamill—coming off an excellent turn in Mike Flanagan’s The Fall of...
Chemists Unveil the Slickest Surface Ever to Ward Off Water
A duck’s back is not the only slippery surface water is prone to slide off of. Researchers have developed a new method of coating surfaces in...
FCC aims to investigate the risk of AI-enhanced robocalls
As if robocalling wasn’t already enough of a problem, the advent of easily accessible, realistic AI-powered writing and synthetic voice could supercharge the practice. The FCC...
CVS to Pull Cold Medicines After FDA Scientists Say They Don’t Work
The era of a common over-the-counter cold medicine is coming to an end. Major retail chain CVS said this month that it will be pulling some...
9 Great Sci-Fi Crews That Inspired My Interstellar Graphic Novel
My latest book, The Hard Switch, is about the crew of a small cargo ship, comprising Ada, Haika, and Mallic (an extractor, pilot, and engineer, respectively),...
What’s behind the fresh round of tech layoffs?
But let’s not forget as we dig into the reasons why we are seeing a new wave of tech layoffs that this is more than an...
