July 7, 2025

The Download: China’s winning at advanced manufacturing, and a potential TikTok sale

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The latest threat from the rise of Chinese manufacturing In 2013, a trio of academics showed convincing evidence that increased trade with China beginning in the early 2000s and the resulting flood of…

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The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app

April 17, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.  Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point […]

The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

The US is pouring money into surveillance tech at the southern border

April 17, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. For years, the US has struggled to process all the people who want to come and live here. It’s a slow-rumbling problem that has become…

Developers are looking for creative ways to build AI-powered chatbot assistants

April 17, 2023

Since OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT last year, it has been almost impossible to go a day without a company or developer releasing an AI-powered tool. Now, with the release of new models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthroipic’s Claude, more app makers are trying their hands at tools that are more accessible and useful to people. Some […]

Developers are looking for creative ways to build AI-powered chatbot assistants by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Teachers in Denmark are using apps to audit their students’ moods

April 17, 2023
In a Copenhagen suburb, a fifth-grade classroom is having its weekly cake-eating session, a common tradition in Danish public schools. While the children are eating chocolate cake, the teacher pulls up an infographic on a whiteboard: a bar chart generated by a digital platform that collects data on how they’ve been feeling. Organized to display…

US tech giants voice concern over India’s fact-checking rule

April 17, 2023

The Asia Internet Coalition, an influential industry organization representing technology giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, and Amazon, has voiced concerns over a recent amendment to India’s IT rules, saying the changes grant the local government expansive content removal authority without implementing adequate procedural safeguards. India recently updated its IT rules, barring social media platforms […]

US tech giants voice concern over India’s fact-checking rule by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Sega to acquire Angry Birds-maker Rovio for $775M

April 17, 2023

Japanese gaming giant Sega has confirmed that it’s buying Finland’s Rovio in an all-cash deal worth €706 million ($775 million). News first emerged back in January that Israeli mobile gaming company Playtika had tabled a €750 million ($810 million) bid for Rovio, though talks collapsed last month with no reasons provided by either company. Rovio did, however, […]

Sega to acquire Angry Birds-maker Rovio for $775M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

XPeng unveils new EV platform designed to cut production costs

April 17, 2023

Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng unveiled Sunday its new platform architecture for making vehicles that will set the foundation for future production models and reduce the cost of development and manufacturing. The Smart Electric Platform Architecture (SEPA) 2.0 is expected to shorten the R&D cycle for future models by 20%, as well as cut costs […]

XPeng unveils new EV platform designed to cut production costs by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives

April 15, 2023

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch