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Joby Aviation accelerates path to market with $55M DoD contract

April 26, 2023

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company Joby Aviation’s strategy for launching commercially in 2025 is becoming more clear. The startup secured a $55 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense Tuesday, a deal that will allow the company to put its aircraft into customers’ hands and start generating revenue before it has achieved […]

Joby Aviation accelerates path to market with $55M DoD contract by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Snap says its bot won’t notice instantly that you stopped sharing your location

April 26, 2023

Today, Snapchat explained that its My AI bot might take a while to notice if you stop giving your location information to the app. That means that the bot retains the location details for a while before understanding that a user has stopped sharing that info. After Snapchat rolled out its AI-powered chatbot My AI […]

Snap says its bot won’t notice instantly that you stopped sharing your location by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Crypto wallet Phantom adds public multichain support for Ethereum and Polygon

April 26, 2023

Phantom, a crypto wallet for Solana blockchain users, has expanded its support to Ethereum and Polygon blockchains in a public launch across browsers, iOS and Android, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Support for the two new blockchains was originally slated for the first quarter of 2023, but was pushed back to today. The multichain integration […]

Crypto wallet Phantom adds public multichain support for Ethereum and Polygon by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

UK blocks Microsoft’s planned $68.7B Activision bid, saying it would ‘substantially weaken competition’

April 26, 2023

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that it intends to block Microsoft’s megabucks Activision acquisition, concluding that such a merger would create “…the most powerful operator” in the cloud gaming market. The CMA noted that with a current share of 60-70%, acquiring Activision’s portfolio of games, which includes Call of Duty and […]

UK blocks Microsoft’s planned $68.7B Activision bid, saying it would ‘substantially weaken competition’ by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch