Machine Zone cofounder Gabe Leydon is back with Limit Break, a blockchain game company with $200 million in funding.Read MoreRead More
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Rollic has crossed two billion lifetime downloads across its portfolio of hypercasual games, or accessible titles that you can play in a minute or less.Read MoreRead More
Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Honda and LG Chem will build a $4.4 billion electric vehicle battery factory in the US, the latest move to shore up the country’s domestic production to comply with new tax credit rules. Honda and LG Chem will form a joint venture to produce batteries in the US…
Tesla Powerwalls in Toronto | Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star via Getty Images Tesla’s latest virtual power plant is in Japan. The company announced Friday that it has been quietly installing its Powerwall batteries at homes on the island Miyako-jima since 2021 and now has over 300 installed. It’s the largest commercial virtual power…
Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes, is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Hans Isaacson on Unsplash The following is an excerpt from Half Wild: People, Dogs, and Environmental Policy by Dave Dempsey. It was December 1989. Something was clogging the Lake Erie drinking water intake of the city of Monroe, interrupting the…
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Initialized Capital founder Garry Tan will become president and CEO of Y Combinator next year, the two organizations announced today. Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Ralston did not say what’s next for him, only writing: “I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually…
Andrew Chan Contributor Share on Twitter Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC, investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. In the eternal words of Kanye Omari West: “Scoop-diddy-whoop, Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop, Poop-di-scoopty.” Now that we have that out of the way, let’s get to the meat. Objectively speaking, and much…
This week on the TechCrunch Podcast we’re talking to Zack Whittaker about TechCrunch’s new spyware lookup tool and a whistleblower complaint against Twitter alleging massive security issues. Tim De Chant also comes on to explain how the Inflation Reduction Act could make EVs more available and affordable. And as always, we’ll catch you up on…
Summer’s nearly over here in the States, and we’re heading toward Labor Day, the last long holiday weekend of the season. Try as we might, we can’t roll back time. We can, however, uncage the early bird and roll back prices to TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco, with an online day October…