June 15, 2025

The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’

While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]

Rocket Lab’s first mission from Virginia delayed until 2023

December 20, 2022

We’re going to have to wait a little longer for Rocket Lab’s American debut. The company, which is headquartered in Los Angeles, was due to launch a trio of satellites for radio-frequency analytics customer HawkEye 360 to orbit from the company’s new site at Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. It would’ve marked the first time […]

Rocket Lab’s first mission from Virginia delayed until 2023 by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

NASA’s InSight mission is winding down — look back at the Mars lander’s many accomplishments

December 20, 2022

Another Mars robot is settling in for a long, long sleep. With dust caking its solar panels, InSight has been losing the ability to recharge for months — in the spring, it was operating at just one-tenth of its landing power. Now, the thick layers of dust might have doomed InSight for good. NASA announced […]

NASA’s InSight mission is winding down — look back at the Mars lander’s many accomplishments by Stefanie Waldek originally published on TechCrunch

FTC puts Zuckerberg on the stand over Meta’s plan to acquire Within

December 20, 2022

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Tuesday in a hearing about Meta’s acquisition of Within, the VR company that makes the fitness app Supernatural. In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Meta in an attempt to block the deal, which the government agency alleges is anti-competitive. The hearing comes at […]

FTC puts Zuckerberg on the stand over Meta’s plan to acquire Within by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

The Drop Sense75 is not the keyboard you’ve been waiting for

December 20, 2022

In August, Drop announced its first new in-house mechanical keyboard in quite a while: the 75% Drop Sense75. On paper, the $349 gasket-mount keyboard looked like a winner, with an understated but classy design, Drop’s DCX keycaps, in-house stabilizers and its Holy Panda X tactile switches. The final result is a bit of a disappointment, […]

The Drop Sense75 is not the keyboard you’ve been waiting for by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Cruise soft-launches robotaxi rides in Phoenix and Austin

December 20, 2022

Cruise has soft-launched its robotaxi service in Phoenix and Austin, making its own deadline to enter two new markets before the end of 2022. The GM-backed company has until now only operated its ridehail service in San Francisco, where it launched a fully driverless commercial service over the summer. “In both Phoenix and Austin we […]

Cruise soft-launches robotaxi rides in Phoenix and Austin by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Ukraine lines up 10,000 more Starlink terminals as funding issues are ‘resolved’

December 20, 2022

The knotty issue of how Ukraine’s now-critical Starlink satellite internet should be paid for has been at least temporarily resolved, according to the country’s minister for digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov. It appears that a few European Union nations have decided it’s in everyone’s interest to keep the country online as the Russian invasion persists. In […]

Ukraine lines up 10,000 more Starlink terminals as funding issues are ‘resolved’ by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch