Apple To Move Some AirPods And Beats Manufacturing To India: Report
The tech giant has been shifting some areas of iPhone production from China to other markets including India
The Download: AI tracking birds, and a pig kidney transplant
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. AI is changing how we study bird migration In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their…
Fiserv, LG back Korea Credit Data as the SME-focused fintech startup raises another $24.7M
In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined make up 83.1% of all corporation employees in the country, totaling about 17.1 million people, according to OECD data. To help meet SMEs’ financial needs in the country, Seoul-based fintech […]
Fiserv, LG back Korea Credit Data as the SME-focused fintech startup raises another $24.7M by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Halo Car’s teleoperated car-sharing service to roll out this year with no one behind the wheel
Halo Car, a Las Vegas-based startup that combines teleoperations and car sharing, said it will remove the human safety operator from behind the wheel later this year — the last hurdle before its commercial launch. The milestone would mean Halo Car will use humans to remotely control vehicles through public streets and deliver them to […]
Halo Car’s teleoperated car-sharing service to roll out this year with no one behind the wheel by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: Google will use private subsea cable to launch its first full-scale cloud region in Africa
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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 notches eighth human spaceflight mission with Crew-5
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
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China
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
Inside a battery recycling facility
Hello and welcome to the first-ever edition of The Spark! Thanks so much for joining me for this weekly climate newsletter, where we’ll explore tech that could help combat the climate crisis. I’m so glad you’re here! This week, we’re kicking things off with a special travel edition of the newsletter. So buckle up, because…
Startups and VCs are increasingly embracing the federal government. Here’s why
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 billboards could cost $65M and still turn a profit
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
The porcelain challenge didn’t need to be real to get views
Despite what you may have heard, the teens are not stealing their family’s fine dinnerware, tossing it in a blender, and snorting the resulting dust for the “porcelain challenge.” That’s just what Sebastian Durfee, a 23-year-old actor and TikTok creator, hoped you might believe when he spread the word on social media of the latest…