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 […]

Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter’s Hunter Biden laptop drama

December 3, 2022

Elon Musk reminded his followers on Friday that owning Twitter now means he controls every aspect of the company — including what its employees said behind closed doors before he took over. Earlier this week, Musk teased the release of what he called “The Twitter Files,” declaring that the public “deserves to know what really […]

Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter’s Hunter Biden laptop drama by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Looks like sex tech startup Lora DiCarlo is done for

December 3, 2022

Lora DiCarlo, a sex tech startup that made headlines in 2019 after being blacklisted from the Consumer Electronics Show, seems to have shut down. The company’s website is offline and reportedly orders have gone unfulfilled for months. TechCrunch has reached out to the eponymous founder for confirmation, but it sure looks like the end of […]

Looks like sex tech startup Lora DiCarlo is done for by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter

December 2, 2022

Ye might have crossed the line by tweeting a swastika superimposed with a Star of David, but you can’t blame other Nazi apologists for getting mixed signals. On Thursday night, Musk personally intervened after the artist formerly known as Kanye West shared the symbol. “I tried my best,” Musk tweeted in response to a tweet […]

Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Plant Prefab nabs $42M to crank out ‘extremely sustainable’ custom homes

December 2, 2022

Prefabricated homes always seem to be on the cusp of something big — solving housing shortages, tackling systemic waste or just generally ushering in the “very up-to-date.” But in the U.S., new prefab housing still represents a small fraction of the market (around 2% of single-family homes built in 2021, for example). By now it’s clear […]

Plant Prefab nabs $42M to crank out ‘extremely sustainable’ custom homes by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

The final 12-hours to savings on passes to TC Sessions: Space

December 2, 2022

Calling out to the die-hard procrastinators, last-minute decision makers and all you head-down-get-it-done types. TC Sessions: Space 2022 takes place next week on December 6, but you have just 12 short hours left before the price of admission heads into a higher stratosphere. It’s now o’clock: Hop off the fence already and save. Buy a […]

The final 12-hours to savings on passes to TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch