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In August, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, the largest US climate bill in more than a decade. The legislation puts the country back on track to meet its commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Beyond enacting specific measures to reduce US carbon emissions by more than 40 percent by…

Sara Ord spent her week talking to scientists about skin cells from a mouse-size marsupial called the dunnart. The cells were sent to the “de-extinction” company where she works, Colossal Biosciences, from collaborators in Australia. Ord’s job is to lead a team that’s figuring out how to use gene editing to gradually change the DNA…

TSMC founder Morris Chang said today that the semiconductor giant and Apple supplier will build 3-nanometer chips at its factory in Arizona, though final plans are not ready yet. The factory is currently under construction, with plans to begin production in 2024. During a press conference in Taipei, Chang said “three-nanometer, TSMC right now has […]

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips at its Arizona factory by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

We sat down with Einride CEO Robert Falck to talk about the challenges of reaching autonomy when connectivity on the roads is lacking, among other hot topics.

Einride founder on building an underlying business to support future tech goals by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Hello again! Time for another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we recap the week’s most read TechCrunch stories in one quick and easy-to-skim blast. Get it in your inbox every Saturday AM by signing up here. (There won’t be a newsletter next Saturday because I’ll be off being thankful/eating leftovers/being thankful for […]

Amazon layoffs begin, Ticketmaster can’t handle Taylor Swift, and much of Twitter HQ quits by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch

When Peter Clowes last updated his LinkedIn profile, he listed his role as “Layoff Survivor” at Twitter. Yet Clowes, a senior software engineer who joined the company in the spring of 2020, is now gone, too. He quit yesterday, dispassionately explaining last night on Twitter that he decided to leave not because to hobble Twitter […]

Elon Musk talked about laying off 75% of employees; he may have just gotten his wish by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Ten months after she was found guilty of fraud, the former youngest self-made female billionaire Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison, plus three years of supervised release. At her trial, she was found guilty on four of 11 counts related to defrauding investors, but she was not found guilty of defrauding patients. […]

Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for Theranos fraud by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

This is a turning point in U.S. legislation, because, for the first time, it is specific to open source software security.

The US Securing Open Source Software Act of 2022 is a step in the right direction by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

While nobody knows what will happen to Twitter, we can’t help but consider what we’d miss if it went away.

TechCrunch staff on what we lose if we lose Twitter by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch