Amazon Amazon unveiled Sparrow, a robot capable of handling individual items on Thursday. The robot could reduce the company’s reliance on human warehouse workers. Amazon has been trying to fully automate its warehouses for the past several years. What do you call a robotic arm that relies on computer vision, artificial intelligence, and suction cups…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Apple is developing an updated version of the low-cost iPhone SE, and the new device is expected to include some major changes to bring it in line with the flagship iPhone lineup. No new iPhone SE is expected until 2024, but we’re already hearing rumors, so we’ve rounded up all of the information in one…
GitHub this week released its Octoverse 2022 report, highlighting statistics, insights and evolutions across the open-source community.Read MoreRead More
GIF: Tiny Circuits What is this, a television for ants? Basically yes! The TinyTV 2, a Kickstarter project from the company that brought us an even smaller Game Boy, is one of the smallest and cutest video players I’ve ever seen. While it doesn’t have a set of rabbit ears to harness the airwaves, the…
Enlarge / The Pantone Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated color libraries are disappearing from Adobe’s apps at some point, though the exact timing isn’t clear. (credit: Pantone) If you want to use up-to-date versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, you’ve already been paying subscription fees for years now. And if you want to use Pantone…
Enlarge / The Reddit logo on a mobile device. (credit: Getty Images | stockcam) In a post to /r/reddit, Reddit announced that it began rolling out a feature that will allow users to mute specific communities that contains content they don’t want to see. If you mute a subreddit using this feature, posts from it…
Maternal healthcare in the US is a mess. Kemal Yildirim/Getty Images The US is no stranger to maternal mortality. The country has gained notoriety for having the highest maternal death rate of similarly wealthy nations; on a global ranking, the US falls 55th, just behind Russia and just ahead of Ukraine. Around 800 pregnant Americans…
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. Tech reporting is a lot of things, but it sure ain’t boring, as the chaos around Twitter, crypto, and layoffs continues. We’re just trying to hang on for dear life to try…
Seventy years ago, in November 1952, the Peanuts comic strip debuted a new gag: Lucy holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick, then pulls it away at the last minute. Fifty years ago, in November 1972, the Democratic Party began its own Lucy-and-the-football ritual. The youth vote — empowered by the 26th Amendment, which…
Getty Images Meta laid off 11,000 people on Wednesday. These were the first mass layoffs in the company’s 18-year history. Many employees were shocked by the scale of the layoffs. Meta laid off 11,000 people on Wednesday. That’s more than about a third of the population of Los Altos, California — the posh Silicon Valley…