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Daily Crunch: Google will use private subsea cable to launch its first full-scale cloud region in Africa by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
SpaceX successfully launched another batch of astronauts to the International Space Station Wednesday, part of an ongoing astronaut transportation contract with NASA. Like the company’s seven other human spaceflight missions, it was completely routine — and that’s what made it so remarkable. The Crew-5 mission (so named because it’s SpaceX’s fifth crewed mission with NASA’s […]
SpaceX notches eighth human spaceflight mission with Crew-5 by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon during countries’ politically sensitive periods, but the stress facing censorship circumvention tools in China […]
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Enterprise startups are increasingly turning their attention to landing the federal government as a customer — and VCs are all-in.
Startups and VCs are increasingly embracing the federal government. Here’s why by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
Space-based advertising has been on the minds of every marketer on the planet since the Apollo era, yet no one has made it happen. A new study suggests that a billboard-like constellation of about 50 satellites, costing $65 million all in, could shine ads to every corner of the Earth for months — and potentially […]
Space billboards could cost $65M and still turn a profit by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
In a new letter filed with Delaware’s Court of Chancery, Judge Kathaleen McCormick says it’s still game on — for now at least. In the letter, sent a day after news broke that Elon Musk would seek to seal the deal with Twitter under the original terms, Judge McCormick is weighing in with an important […]
Twitter v. Musk judge says the trial is still on by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
Not to be outdone by Meta’s Make-A-Video, Google today detailed its work on Imagen Video, an AI system that can generate video clips given a text prompt (e.g., “a teddy bear washing dishes”). While the results aren’t perfect — the looping clips the system generates tend to have artifacts and noise — Google claims that […]
Google answers Meta’s video-generating AI with its own, dubbed Imagen Video by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Climate change and geopolitical instability are wreaking havoc on agriculture, so we surveyed 7 investors to learn what they’re looking at.
7 investors discuss how agtech can solve agriculture’s biggest problems by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch