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Two top Solana NFT projects, DeGods and y00ts, have announced they are leaving the blockchain in 2023, which is stirring up conflicting sentiments in the crypto community. Over the weekend, DeGods announced on Twitter that it will be migrating to Ethereum, while its sister project y00ts will be moving to Polygon early next year, the […]

Top Solana NFT projects DeGods and y00ts to leave the blockchain and ‘explore new opportunities’ by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Aerones, a robotics startup that scrubs and inspects wind turbines so humans don’t have to, secured $38.9 million in fresh funding this month from dozens of undisclosed investors, TechCrunch has learned. Wind turbines produce clean energy, but their towers tend to leak oil, which can corrode blades, increase wind resistance and pollute the ground below. […]

Clean energy: Scrubbing wind turbines with robots nets Aerones $39M by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

As the future wreckage of Twitter skywrites a tale of hubris across the sky, many have chosen — or had the choice made for them — to direct their gaze instead at the horizon, in hopes of seeing some beacon of hope, shining through the bomb cyclone: The Next Twitter! But they are being misled. […]

There is no ‘Next Twitter,’ and that’s OK by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

With more investors looking to dip their toes in climate tech, here’s where they’re likely to put their money to work next year.

Six 🔥 climate tech trends to watch for in 2023 by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

Data breaches can be extremely harmful to organizations of all shapes and sizes – but it’s how these companies react to the incident that can deal their final blow. While we’ve seen some excellent examples of how companies should respond to data breaches over the past year — kudos to Red Cross and Amnesty for […]

It’s all in the (lack of) details: 2022’s badly handled data breaches by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

You should never be signing checks because all the cool kids are doing it — that is never a sound approach to doing most things in life, let alone investing millions of dollars.

All we are saying is give due diligence a chance in 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Research firm Fairwork blasted Ola, Uber, Dunzo, PharmEasy and Amazon Flex in a report Tuesday, saying the firms scored zero in its assessment of whether they created fair conditions for their gig workers. The research project, which collaborated with partners at the University of Oxford, said the aforementioned firms did not provide fair pay, contracts, […]

Uber and Amazon blasted for poor working conditions for gig workers in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch