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Intel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million

July 17, 2023

Bay Area-based robotics firm Figure this week announced that its humanoid officially took its first steps — a milestone it hit a few days shy of of the company’s first anniversary. Figure has made a good deal of progress in a short period, due in no small part to founder and CEO Brett Adcock’s initial $100 […]

Intel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla announces first Cybertruck build ahead of Q2 earnings

July 16, 2023

Tesla over the weekend said its first much anticipated Cybertruck came off the electric vehicle maker’s production line in Texas. The debut of the long-delayed, futuristic-looking pickup truck comes in the lead up to Tesla’s second quarter 2023 earnings call. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced the Cybertruck in 2019, but vehicle production has repeatedly […]

Tesla announces first Cybertruck build ahead of Q2 earnings by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter

July 16, 2023

Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which […]

Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Threads hits 100M users, pedestrians fight back against AVs, and VanMoof skids off course

July 15, 2023

Hey, friends — welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. If life’s gotten in the way of following the major stories on TC, don’t sweat it. You’ve come to the right place. In this edition, we cover the 19-year-old MIT dropout “replacing gunpowder” for the defense industry, as […]

Threads hits 100M users, pedestrians fight back against AVs, and VanMoof skids off course by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch