Toyota is beefing up the fuel-sipping Prius hybrid, adding more power and quicker acceleration to appeal to a wider range of car shoppers in an increasingly crowded market. The car created – and dominated – the segment when it launched in the U.S. 22 years ago. But the world’s first production hybrid car has steadily […]
The new 2023 Toyota Prius plays up power, not fuel economy by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch
Proteins are the molecules that get work done in nature, and there’s a whole industry emerging around successfully modifying and manufacturing them for various uses. But doing so is time consuming and haphazard; Cradle aims to change that with an AI-powered tool that tells scientists what new structures and sequences will make a protein do […]
Protein programmers get a helping hand from Cradle’s generative AI by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Cruise is expanding its driverless ride-hailing service in San Francisco to daytime hours, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt tweeted Wednesday. The robotaxi service is now available to employees from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then again from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eventually, these expanded operating hours will be available to the public. The bolstered […]
Cruise has expanded its driverless robotaxi service to daytime hours by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: Amazon starts delivering layoff notices to thousands of employees by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Startup hopes combined leasing-and-service model will sell contractors and consumers on climate-friendly heat pumps.
Service 1st Financial sells “home comfort-as-a-service,” gets $20 million in funding from Series B, debt by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Quadruped robot developers like Boston Dynamics have taken great pains to develop systems capable of traversing all manner of terrain. For the right price, you can pick up a robotic dog that can take a kick, get back up and get back on its way. A team comprised of researchers at Carnegie Mellon and UC […]
This robotic dog can walk over just about any terrain by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Kenya’s B2B e-commerce food distribution platform Twiga has laid off 211 of its full-time employees following restructuring that has eliminated the company’s in-house sales team. The laid-off staff make up 21% of the over 1,000 employees mainly in Kenya, where it links farmers or agricultural producers and fast-moving consumer goods manufactures to retailers. The agritech’s […]
Kenya’s Twiga dismisses in-house sales team, affecting 21% of it employees by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Information reviewed by TechCrunch indicates that market makers and funds that lost money on FTX are more numerous than previously anticipated.
FTX exposure hits market makers and funds by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency says hackers backed by the Iranian government compromised a federal agency that failed to patch against Log4Shell, a vulnerability fixed almost a year ago. In an alert published Thursday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that a federal civilian executive branch organization (FCEB) was breached by Iranian government hackers […]
Iran-backed hackers breached a US federal agency that failed to patch year-old bug by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
While Amazon has yet to confirm the size or scoop of its most recent round of layoffs, the company today posted the text of a letter from Senior Vice President of Devices & Services, Dave Limp, that sheds light on the situation. The note, which was initially sent to the company’s Devices and Services org, […]
Amazon hardware head confirms layoffs in memo by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch