March 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello crunchers! Christine is off for a few days, which means you’re stuck with just me. Prepare for awful puns and worse jokes. Oh yes.  But before we start the pun-ishment, let’s […]

Daily Crunch: Bach to the future – Forthcoming Apple Music Classical app will feature 5M tracks by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

In a way, fruit flies are just like us. They have eyes, legs, nervous systems, and they love fruit. Unlike us, however, they only have a few thousand neurons in their brains, which means scientists can map of just all the cells but all the connections between them — producing for the first time a […]

With this brain map we are one step closer to total fruit fly simulation by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s customers are struggling to transfer funds out of their bank accounts, numerous sources tell TechCrunch. The seeming wave of attempted withdrawals comes after SVB announced yesterday that it lost $1.8 billion in the sale of U.S. treasuries and mortgage-backed securities that it had invested in, owing to rising interest rates. […]

Some SVB customers are struggling to wire funds out of the bank by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

It may go down in the history books about Silicon Valley: the time that its most prominent bank, a bank founded nearly 40 years earlier, inflicted such grievous injury on itself that it had to be rescued by another, even bigger bank or else risk going down in flames in a single day. We don’t […]

Silicon Valley Bank shoots self in foot by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch