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This architect is cutting up materials to make them stronger and lighter

April 23, 2024
As a child, Emily Baker loved to make paper versions of things: cameras, a spaceship cockpit, buildings for a town in outer space. It was a habit that stuck. Years later, studying architecture in graduate school at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, she was playing around with some paper and scissors. It was…

Adobe claims its new image generation model is its best yet

April 23, 2024

Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image generation model in particular has been derided as underwhelming and flawed compared to Midjourney, OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, and other rivals, with a tendency to distort limbs and landscapes and miss the nuances in prompts. But Adobe is trying […]

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TechCrunch Space: Engineering the future

April 22, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Don’t worry – we’ll be diving into the Mars Sample Return news shortly.

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Here are the 30+ startups showcasing at HAX’s May 1 Demo Day

April 22, 2024

A few weeks back, TechCrunch ventured out to New Jersey to pay an early visit to HAX’s Newark offices. As much as I complained about the 90-minute commute in from Queens, it’s nothing compared to the last time I paid a visit to the SOSV-run hardware accelerator’s Shenzhen space. HAX’s China operations have shrunk considerably […]

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Here’s a lab-grown diamond startup that’s attracted a16z’s attention

April 22, 2024

Throughout hip-hop’s long history, jewelry has served as an important vehicle for artists to convey their ideas and affluence, or simply to dazzle onlookers. Diamonds, in particular, serve as an important motif, famously exemplified by Drake’s $400,000 diamond-encrusted iPhone case. But not everyone is a millionaire rapper, and most people can’t exactly afford to wear […]

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