Monthly Archives: August 2022

Amazon’s emissions increased dramatically last year despite carbon neutrality goal

Despite the company’s commitment to decrease its carbon footprint, Amazon’s emissions grew by 18 percent last year, according to the annual sustainability report it released today. While online shopping increased during the pandemic’s second year, the company also rapidly expanded its number of warehousing operations — faster than consumer demand could support. For the entirety…

Analogue Pocket’s 1.1 update already paying dividends: jailbreak, Neo Geo core

No, we did not have “Neo Geo as the first community development for Analogue Pocket” on our FPGA bingo board. (credit: Sam Machkovech) A major update to the portable, retro-minded Analogue Pocket gaming system landed on Friday, and its new “OpenFPGA” features are the highlight. Thanks to last week’s “1.1” patch, anyone in the open…

Max Q: Off the bench

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Last week was the week of ambitious timelines. In this issue: A modest profile of one of the foremost experts of space propulsion Deep dive into the history of NASA’s Landsat News from Masten Space, Swarm and more P.S. Applications are closing soon for Startup Battlefield 200! Apply…

Tech’s riskiest founders are getting a $650 million bet from Redpoint Ventures

For venture investors, noise is ironically important. Wading through constant streams of capital-seeking founders and startup pitches may be the hardest part of the job, but it’s also imperative to the success of the same job. So, what happens if energy around entrepreneurship slows? As the downturn looms, are fewer founders going to take risks?…

Daily Crunch: Did Bolt Mobility bolt? The startup left equipment and confused customers in its wake

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Monday is here, and we are excited to throw ourselves into another week of summertime tech news. Apropos summer — as the VCs stop answering their phones in favor of drinking elderflower…

Hackers have found a new way to hijack your Discord account

Cybercriminals have found a new way to steal your Discord account using the npm open-source repository alongside a couple of malware variants. As reported by Kaspersky, which first spotted the campaign it dubbed LofyLife, the criminals have  created four malicious packages that spread two different malware variants: Volt Stealer, and Lofy Stealer.  These packages have…