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Federal regulators have closed an investigation into Tesla for allowing in-dash gaming while its vehicles were moving. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched the investigation in late 2021 after discovering video games could be seen and played on the center screen even while the vehicle was in motion. The investigation covered more than […]

Tesla cleared by NHTSA for in-car gaming feature by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Pluton Biosciences is hard at work identifying beneficial microorganisms and putting them to work in agriculture, and just raised a $16.5 million A round to commercialize its most promising finds. The company raised its $6.6 million seed round in 2021, and I reported then about its approach of identifying and isolating microbes and bacteria that […]

Pluton Biosciences takes its carbon-fixing microbes to market with a fresh $16.6M by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon is discontinuing celebrity voices for Alexa—a feature you may or may not have known about. The three Alexa voices — Samuel L. Jackson, Shaquille O’Neal, and Melissa McCarthy — are no longer available for purchase. The Verge was the first to report the news. Launched in 2019, the celebrity voices use Amazon’s neural text-to-speech […]

Sorry, but Alexa can no longer talk like Samuel L Jackson by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Arcimoto, maker of pint-sized electric vehicles, has a new EV. By the looks of it, it’s no joy ride. The Eugene, Oregon-based startup dodged bankruptcy in February and strapped in its third CEO in April. On Tuesday, the company shared its next chapter: a little truck called the MUV (a “Modular Utility Vehicle”) with customizable […]

Arcimoto’s latest teeny-tiny EV is all work and no play by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch