December 25, 2025

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…

Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option aimed at hypersonic defense customers

April 17, 2023

Rocket Lab is adding a new offering to its suite of services: Hypersonic suborbital launches. The new service will be available starting sometime in the first half of this year, when the company will fly its first mission for a “confidential customer” who contracted use of the new suborbital rocket. Rocket Lab’s suborbital vehicle is […]

Rocket Lab adds a suborbital launch option aimed at hypersonic defense customers by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: solar geoengineering’s high stakes, and tracking student’s moods

April 17, 2023
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. This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say. Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space,…

Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury

April 17, 2023

I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. In this edition buyers get ultra-luxury appointments including special cup holders designed to hold champagne flutes. Back to the grill. The Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV is dripping with historic Maybach design elements: […]

Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC

April 17, 2023

As the economy has gotten tougher, plenty of companies have switched to buying in assets to renting them. There’s a tortuous acronym for this which is XaaS or “Everything-as-a-Service”, also referred to as “Servitization”. An example of this would be ServiceNow which automates services for enterprise operations. A new-ish player in this space is Equipme, […]

Germany’s XaaS platform Equipme secures $3.8M Seed led by La Famiglia VC by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Razor Group, an e-commerce aggregator, closes Series C at $88M at $1.2B valuation, acquires Stryze to consolidate

April 17, 2023

The business of being an e-commerce aggregator may be down but it is definitely not out. Razor Group, one of the string of startups that has made a name for itself as a “roll-up” startup — raising big money to acquire and consolidate Amazon (and other marketplace) retailers — is now making a different kind […]

Razor Group, an e-commerce aggregator, closes Series C at $88M at $1.2B valuation, acquires Stryze to consolidate by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say.

April 17, 2023
Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere, and another where the world continues heating up. There are big differences between the two, but a lot of smaller, more subtle changes too.  Take malaria, for example—the sixth-largest killer in low-income countries.   By 2070, the overall…