Technology

VW and Redwood want to turn your old laptops into EV batteries

April 4, 2023

Battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials is expanding a partnership with Volkswagen of America in its bid to collect more end-of-life batteries from consumer electronics and strip out the valuable materials so they can be used to make batteries for electric vehicles. Redwood has said its technology can recover more than 95% of the […]

VW and Redwood want to turn your old laptops into EV batteries by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

April 4, 2023

Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free speech. “This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a […]

Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung Galaxy Watch5 and Watch4 users can now download the Peloton Watch App

April 4, 2023

Samsung announced today that Galaxy Watch5 and Watch4 users can now download the Peloton Watch App on their smartwatches. Users will be able to connect their smartwatches to a Peloton Bike, Bike+, Tread, Row and Guide and see their heart rate on screen during workouts. After a user selects a workout on their Peloton equipment […]

Samsung Galaxy Watch5 and Watch4 users can now download the Peloton Watch App by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Russia’s crumbling tech industry, and an AI security disaster

April 4, 2023
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. How Russia killed its tech industry In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists…

China probes Micron for cybersecurity risks, urges Japan to stay out of U.S. chip export curbs 

April 4, 2023

The U.S. and China chip battle continues to escalate. In China, the country’s cybersecurity watchdog has initiated a probe into U.S. memory chip maker Micron Technology, according to a statement from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released on Friday. The development came on the same day that Japan announced plans to impose export restrictions on […]

China probes Micron for cybersecurity risks, urges Japan to stay out of U.S. chip export curbs  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

The complex math of counterfactuals could help Spotify pick your next favorite song

April 4, 2023
A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at the music-streaming firm Spotify captures for the first time the complex math behind counterfactual analysis, a precise technique that can be used to identify the causes of past events and predict the effects of future ones. The model, described earlier this year…