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Waymo received approval to offer rides without anyone behind the wheel in San Francisco. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Waymo can now provide driverless rides to passengers in San Francisco. On Friday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) said it granted the Alphabet-owned Waymo a permit to participate in its driverless pilot program, which…
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. For SaaS companies, net dollar retention is on investor radar more than ever. But it shouldn’t eclipse gross dollar retention: If you are not…
We’re expecting the Samsung Galaxy S23 phones to bring a host of upgrades with them, from the cameras to the processors, but there is apparently one key spec that won’t see an improvement: the fingerprint sensor. Reliable leaker Ice Universe seems to have got hold of a layer of protective glass for the Galaxy S23…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Elon Musk issued a Twitter poll asking if Donald Trump’s account should be reinstated. Trump was permanently suspended from the platform following the Capitol insurrection. AOC issued a reminder about the “last time” Trump was on Twitter, which he “used to incite an insurrection.” While Elon Musk tinkers with…
Shaival Shah, Ribbon CEO and co-founder Ribbon The CEO of Ribbon told employees by email that impending layoffs would be “deeper” than expected. The all-cash offers company already laid off 40% of its employees in July.It would be just one of several proptechs that have downsized this month. Another and potentially large round of layoffs at proptech…
Google paid Activision Blizzard approximately $360 million to prevent the troubled publisher from competing directly against the Play Store. The deal was one among at least 24 agreements the search giant signed as part of its Project Hug initiative, according to court documents seen by Reuters. The financial details of Project Hug – later known…
The Elder Scrolls Online: Firesong DLC is finally here for console players. Whilst arriving a little later than its PC sibling, this new story DLC allows players to explore the “untamed island of Galen, the westernmost island of the Systres Archipelago” where players can “dive deep into the lives and culture of the druids, and…
Warzone 2.0 players have discovered a bug that’s reportedly locking them out of the free-to-play game unless they own Modern Warfare 2. Whilst the issue was posted on the game’s subreddit community earlier this week and seems to have been resolved for some, others are still adding to – and upvoting – the post, suggesting…
Do you want a simple way to search for specific patents and to get PDF copies of those patents? And do you want those PDF files to come straight from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), so you can be confident that they contain any Certificates of Correction? Our first article in a…