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Several years ago, Aleksander Caban, the co-founder of Carbon Studio, a Polish VR game developer, observed a major problem in modern game design. He had to create rocks, hills, paths and other basic elements of video game environments manually, which often turned out to be a time-consuming — and laborious — process. So Caban decided […]

Cruise is planning to build a winterized version of the Origin, the company’s autonomous vehicle model that is purpose-built without a steering wheel or pedals. “A couple of years from now, we’ll have a new version of our vehicles coming out that is adapted for cold weather,” said Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt onstage at TechCrunch […]

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software development to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive tools such as Copilot and its associated Copilot Chat, which the Microsoft-owned company expanded to individual GitHub subscribers today. But speaking on stage at TC Disrupt today, Dohmke maintained that the snowballing AI revolution won’t be the death knell […]

The billionaire’s company is beginning the first round of human trials.

The UN estimates that about one third of all food produced goes to waste before it even gets the chance to decompose in your fridge. That abysmal stat explains is one key reason why leading VCs and celebrities have poured cash into companies that aim to prevent supply-chain food loss. There’s Apeel, which makes a […]

Keeping kids off social media is idealistic at best, and giving them access to it opens a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns.

Power changes the brain (and not in a good way). Use these strategies to counterbalance power’s harmful effects.

J.B. Straubel has worn many hats in his career: co-founder of Tesla, Tesla Board Member, and more recently, founder and CEO of battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials. But in his heart, he’s a engineer, he said during a fireside interview at TechCrunch Disrupt. “I think of myself first and foremost as an engineer. […]

Lab-grown meat is buzzy for a reason. The ick factor is palpable, and the benefits of scaling alternatives to factory farming are enormous. Yet, plenty of other crucial corners of agriculture often go overlooked— at least as far as headlines are concerned. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, we asked two leading investors and one founder to […]