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Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation released its third-quarter earnings report after the bell Wednesday. The company closed out the quarter with about $1.2 billion in cash and short-term investments, which Aurora says will be enough to make it to commercial launch in mid-2024. Those statements were made just days after former competitor Argo AI […]

Aurora says it has enough cash to commercialize autonomous trucks in 2024 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The convergence of sustainability goals and technologies like blockchain and AI offer opportunities to the energy sector. The Fourth Industrial Revolution signals an oncoming disruption to every industry and market in the world. With the arrival of Web3, energy markets are at the cusp of this revolution. The convergence of AI, blockchain technology, edge computing,…

2.14 With Verve Therapeutics, Musunuru is working to develop something “like a vaccine for heart disease” by changing a single DNA letter to another letter using a CRISPR technology called base editing. A clinical trial currently underway in New Zealand is giving patients a “one-time therapy to tackle what we traditionally thought was a chronic…

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. Elon Musk’s plans to revive Vine face one big problem: the reason it closed originally Good news, everyone: Vine is (probably) coming back. The much beloved short-form-video-sharing app ran from just 2012 to…

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Twitter CMO Leslie Berland is the latest executive leaving the social network, just days into its Elon Musk era, Bloomberg and the New York Times report. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg also writes that Jean-Philippe Maheu, the vice president of global client solutions, is leaving the company. Berland hasn’t said anything publicly about the job change […]

Twitter CMO is the latest to leave in a string of exec departures by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is deepening its investment in satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with a $100 million investment and a cooperation agreement for the development and sale of smallsats through 2035. Terran also announced that it will now build its massive, $300 million space vehicle manufacturing facility in Irvine, California, not Florida as originally planned. […]

Lockheed Martin increases its bet on satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with $100 million investment by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch