March 14, 2025

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]

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Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April

February 28, 2023

Tokyo-based ispace said Monday that its Hakuto-R lunar lander is on track to reach the moon at the end of April. ispace launched the lander on board a Falcon 9 in December; since then, the spacecraft has traveled around 1,376 million kilometers, the farthest a privately funded, commercial operating spacecraft has ever journeyed into deep […]

Eyeing a new lunar economy, ispace plans to land on the moon at the end of April by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Waymo to test driverless rides with employees in Los Angeles

February 28, 2023

Waymo will begin testing its autonomous Jaguar I-Paces without a human safety operator in Los Angeles in the next couple of weeks. This is the company’s next step on its path to commercializing robotaxi services in its second California city. To start, only employees will be able to hail rides in the driverless robotaxis. While […]

Waymo to test driverless rides with employees in Los Angeles by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Chris Rock gears up to talk about “The Slap” in a live performance on Netflix this Saturday

February 28, 2023

Chris Rock is a widely beloved comic; he’s also a savvy entrepreneur. Though Rock might have talked with media outlets about being assaulted by actor-producer Will Smith last March during the Academy Awards — he could have also chosen to sue Smith — he instead stayed mum, turning The Slap into material for his first […]

Chris Rock gears up to talk about “The Slap” in a live performance on Netflix this Saturday by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team

February 27, 2023

After several rounds of layoffs, Twitter’s staff is down from about 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 — and one of the numerous cuts across the company eliminated the platform’s entire accessibility team last year. In an open letter to Elon Musk, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) called on the new Twitter owner to bring the […]

Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Mammoth is a free Mastodon app for iOS that makes it easier to get started

February 27, 2023

A new Mastodon app called Mammoth has already gained 10,000 downloads in the first few days of its availability on the App Store. The app was built by a team that includes the developer of the Aviary app for Twitter, which was among those unceremoniously killed by Twitter earlier this year after new owner Elon […]

Mammoth is a free Mastodon app for iOS that makes it easier to get started by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch