June 16, 2025

How AI can help make cities work better for residents

In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…

Alibaba CEO to oversee cloud arm following major server outage

December 29, 2022

When Alibaba’s former CEO Jack Ma passed the torch to Daniel Zhang, he established a system that regularly rotates executives to ensure the company always stays agile in the fast-changing internet space. It’s time for this year’s reshuffle — the e-commerce and cloud computing titan made a few major reshuffle announcements on Thursday. The decision […]

Alibaba CEO to oversee cloud arm following major server outage by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter suffers another outage

December 29, 2022

If Twitter isn’t loading fine for you, you’re not alone. Tens of thousands of users are complaining that they are unable to access the Elon Musk-owned social network, seeing scores of strange error-messages instead. Some are being greeted with a blank page while others are getting signed out of the service, they said. Many users […]

Twitter suffers another outage by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The transportation stories that drove 2022

December 28, 2022

2022 was the kind of year that made us think, “What a time to be alive and reporting on transportation.” This year was absolutely dominated by conversations around the realities of bringing self-driving cars to market, the potential upheaval of the gig worker economy, micromobility dramas and, of course, all things Tesla. We took a […]

The transportation stories that drove 2022 by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch