NASA’s Mars Helicopter Breaks a Blade and Will Never Fly Again
After nearly three years of flying across the Martian terrain, the Ingenuity helicopter has finally ended its mission. NASA declared Thursday that Ingenuity had sustained damage...
Oscar Nominee and Noted Star Wars Fan Lily Gladstone Just Joined a Very Cool Sci-Fi Movie
It’s not quite her dream sci-fi role, but until Killers of the Flower Moon breakout Lily Gladstone’s Star Wars Ewok aspirations come true, The Memory Police...
Swift retaliation: Fans strike back after explicit deepfakes flood X
Nonconsensual deepfake porn of Taylor Swift went viral on X this week, with one post garnering more than 45 million views, 24,000 reposts and hundreds of...
Japan’s SLIM spacecraft sticks moon landing – upside-down
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Company shared the first image of its lander on the lunar surface, revealing that the spacecraft touched down on the moon upside-down....
Startup brewing waste to replace palm oil gets Gates Foundation cash
The Gates Foundation is pumping millions into C16 Biosciences, the Y Combinator-backed company fermenting palm oil alternatives. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find
iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications, according to tests by security researchers at...
A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs
Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. The tech industry has seen more than 240,000 jobs lost in 2023, a total that’s already 50% higher than last year...
Cruise reveals DOJ, SEC probes as it releases internal report on pedestrian crash
Cruise, the GM self-driving subsidiary, said Thursday that federal prosecutors and securities regulators have opened investigations into the October 2 incident that left a pedestrian stuck...
Feds Launch Inquiry Into OpenAI and Microsoft’s Messy Relationship
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday. Throughout the inquiry, cloud...
23andMe admits it didn’t detect cyberattacks for months
In a data breach notification letter filed with regulators this weekend, 23andMe revealed that hackers started breaking into customers’ accounts in April 2023 and continued through...
