January 2024

TechCrunch’s newsletters are changing; here’s what you need to know

January 13, 2024

Hello, cherished TechCrunch readers. We know your time is precious, so beginning next week, we’re going to make it a lot easier for you to read our best stuff. For starters, we’re adding a morning newsletter, with the startup and venture and broader tech news we think you want to be tracking more closely. The […]

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Quality Stocks In…Garbage Stocks Out!

January 13, 2024
Stocks keep flirting with the all time highs for the S&P 500 (SPY) and keep falling short. Meaning this is proving to be a stubborn level of resistance at 4,800….

What CES 2024 told us about the home robot

January 13, 2024

Few tech demos can match the spectacle of robotics. Even as the field grows increasingly prevalent in a broad range of industrial workplaces, mechatronics doing impressive things will never cease to amaze. For many, the mere presence of a robot is shorthand for the future, and for big electronics firms, it’s a quick and simple […]

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Makera is releasing a baby sibling of its Carvera desktop 4-axis mill

January 12, 2024

In the depth of the pandemic, 500 or so backers chipped in to make Makera’s Carvera Kickstarter campaign, a fully automatic desktop CNC machine, hit its goal. Since then, the company has sold another 2,500 or so of them – but with a hefty $6,000 price tag and a huge amount of interest from education, […]

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X-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out

January 12, 2024

NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a ‘quiet supersonic’ aircraft that may shape the future of both military and civilian air travel. The X-59 has been under development at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works for years, following a $248 million grant from NASA in 2018. That was just the […]

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Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down

January 12, 2024

Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant contained investment. The team had rapidly iterated […]

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