Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at Solana’s smartphone and the post-Apple tech industry. This week, we’re looking at a web3 without Big Tech. To get this in your inbox every Thursday, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. no trillionaires allowed Unlike other moonshot tech categories, it’s become increasingly clear that…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
While social media, in general, is influential, Twitter has power beyond its direct influence on its users. Using nearly two billion tweets produced in French between 2018 and 2019, a new study found that Twitter affects publishers’ production and editorial decisions in ways that may be good for business but not for readers. Researchers at…
Drones are taking off! FILE PHOTO: A UPS drone makes a Flight Forward medical delivery on WakeMed Health & Hospitals’ main campus in Raleigh Reuters These unmanned flying vehicles promise to help cut costs and improve operations for the businesses that adopt them. It’s a massive opportunity for consumers, businesses, and the military. In The Drones…
Ahead of its annual Prime Day sale next week, Amazon has discounted the Apple Watch Series 7. As long as you don’t mind buying the wearable in green, you can get the 41mm model with GPS connectivity for $284. The $115 price drop represents a nearly 30 percent discount from the usual price of Apple’s…
An Argo AI vehicle in Miami, Florida. | Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup backed by both Ford and Volkswagen, has laid off about 150 employees, as reported earlier by Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. The move is supposed to offset a period of…
Melatonin supplement poisoning is on the rise, especially among kids. sleep troubles have been on the rise. One way that people have been coping with pandemic-induced stress is by taking melatonin to help them slumber. However, experts caution that melatonin probably isn’t a good option for long-term insomnia. In very rare cases, the hormone can…
Hello, friends! Welcome back to Week in Review, where we quickly recap the most read stories on TechCrunch from the last 7 days. The goal: If you had a busy week, you should be able to skim WiR and still have a pretty good sense of what happened in tech. Want it in your inbox?…
Yasin Ozturk/Getty Images The annual Sun Valley conference for moguls in the tech, finance, and media industries is underway. Elon Musk spoke Saturday about building civilization on Mars and population decline, but didn’t address his deal to buy Twitter, Reuters reported. One day prior, Musk told Twitter he was terminating his $44 billion deal to…
Four astronauts on the International Space Station can create over 2.5 tons of trash per year, but how to get rid of that garbage has been an ongoing struggle. At the low-Earth orbiting laboratory, astronauts tested a new technology last week that could become a go-to solution for space waste disposal in the future. For…
Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo Transit costs have been on the rise due to record-high fuel prices and labor shortages. A new report from NetCredit breaks down the cost of hailing an Uber across US cities. Each of the top 10 priciest US cities for Uber have a rate above $20 for a less than 10…