Threads hits 100M users, pedestrians fight back against AVs, and VanMoof skids off course

July 15, 2023

Hey, friends — welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. If life’s gotten in the way of following the major stories on TC, don’t sweat it. You’ve come to the right place. In this edition, we cover the 19-year-old MIT dropout “replacing gunpowder” for the defense industry, as […]

Threads hits 100M users, pedestrians fight back against AVs, and VanMoof skids off course by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Remembering Joanne Pransky

July 15, 2023

A version of this post original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. It has been updated to include details about a new scholarship fund being raised in her honor.  I didn’t know Joanne Pransky personally, so when news of her death broke late last month, I reached out to my LinkedIn followers, asking if […]

Remembering Joanne Pransky by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

July 15, 2023

Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app has been inadvertently thrust into […]

Threads, a Slack alternative completely unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling

July 15, 2023

This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an extensive review by the European […]

This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling by Alyssa Stringer originally published on TechCrunch