SpaceX is launching its Starship rocket from its Starbase facility in southern Texas today – the first time it’s trying to fly the fully-stacked version of the launch vehicle, which means Starship itself is set atop the Super Heavy booster that it requires to reach orbit. SpaceX has flown the Starship prototype before, but only […]
Watch SpaceX try to launch Starship to orbit for the first time… again by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
The incident responders investigating how hackers carried out a complex supply-chain attack targeting enterprise phone provider 3CX say the company was compromised by another supply chain attack. 3CX, which develops a software-based phone system used by over 600,000 organizations worldwide with more than 12 million active daily users, worked with cybersecurity company Mandiant to investigate the incident. […]
3CX’s supply chain attack was caused by… another supply chain attack by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Sometimes, it’s good to ask yourself if you’re raising capital in anticipation of pain that may never materialize.
4 problems venture capital can’t solve by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
After selling their hospitality tech startup, Teranga, in 2018, Senegalese brothers Moustapha and Alioune Ndoye ventured into the trucking business as they pondered their next move. However, it soon became clear to them that fleet management is a major challenge, and one that largely influences the level of profits to be made by truck-owners. Some […]
Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch
Image hosting platform Imgur is set to ban explicit images on its platform from May 15. The company updated its terms of service and said that the company will focus on removing “nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content” from the site later this month. The Medialab-owned company said that explicit content formed a risk to […]
Imgur will ban explicit images on its platform this month by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Uber is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robot startup Cartken to Fairfax, Virginia. Starting Thursday, UberEats customers around the Mosaic District can choose to have food from select merchants delivered via one of Cartken’s small, six-wheeled, autonomous bots. This is the second city where Uber and Cartken are partnering for commercial deliveries. The companies […]
Uber and Cartken are bringing sidewalk delivery robots to Virginia by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch