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The United Kingdom is known for many things, but rocket launches are not one of them. Spaceflight startup Orbex is part of a slew of U.K.-based companies hoping to change that by bringing vertical launch to U.K. soil for the first time. Orbex is aiming to conduct its first orbital rocket launch as early as […]

UK launch startup Orbex closes fresh funding in push to first orbital launch next year by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Cadillac confirmed Monday that its forthcoming flagship Celestiq sedan will launch late next year with all of the futuristic bells and whistles befitting a bespoke EV starting “north of $300,000.” The Celestiq isn’t just a flagship for the GM luxury brand. The four-seater is slated to set the direction for the brand’s transition to a […]

5 things you didn’t know about Cadillac’s $300,000 Celestiq EV by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch

Jane Technologies’ impressive cannabis marketplace is finally available in an app. The company today launched its first iOS app enabling users to browse the inventory of local cannabis dispensaries and make purchases within the app. Its web-based marketplace is lovely, and I’ve found it amazingly accurate, thanks to its live inventory information. I’m thrilled the company […]

Jane Technologies launches its first iOS app for cannabis shopping by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Sweeping new export rules covering everything from equipment to talent threaten to kneecap the Chinese semiconductor industry.

Chinese chipmakers, U.S. suppliers caught in crosshairs of new export restrictions by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

To receive The Algorithm in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Welcome to The Algorithm!  Let me introduce you to Philip Nitschke, also known as “Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide.”  Nitschke has a curious goal: He wants to “demedicalize” death and make assisted suicide as unassisted as possible through technology. As…

We cannot provide enough handicapping to eliminate the fact that so very many 2021 tech IPOs were, from a returns perspective, hot garbage once they floated.

Maybe we didn’t deserve any IPOs this year by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Sila finds itself in a perfect storm of product-market fit and is steadily advancing on its path to produce battery cells for automakers on U.S. soil.

Sila’s Gene Berdichevsky on the ‘5-year roller coaster’ facing battery companies by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

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. WeChat users are begging Tencent to give their censored accounts back On Weibo, the popular Chinese social media platform, hundreds of desperate users were writing “confession letters” this past week. They are urgent…

More tech antitrust activity: Spain’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following a couple of complaints lodged by the Spanish Association of Hotel Managers and the Regional Hotel Association of Madrid. The national competition regulator said today that it will look into whether […]

Online travel giant Booking.com faces antitrust probe in Spain by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch