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LG Energy increases battery production in the U.S. with $1.4B investment
South Korea’s LG Energy Solution, which supplies electric vehicle batteries to Tesla, Lucid Motors, General Motors and Proterra, said on Thursday it is investing $1.4 billion (1.7 trillion KRW) to b
The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design
The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of
Daily Crunch: YouTube will let US users stream full seasons of nearly 4,000 TV shows (with ads)
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NASA is looking for a second company to develop a human moon lander alongside SpaceX
NASA will be giving another company a chance to send a lander to the moon, nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors including Blue Origin and Boeing for the opportunit
Skyline scores $6.5M to wash windows with robot arms
I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Certainly the gig qualifies as both dirty and dangerous — and surprisingly, doesn’t come wi
Okta says hundreds of companies impacted by security breach
Okta says 366 corporate customers, or about 2.5% of its customer base, were impacted by a security breach that allowed hackers to access the company’s internal network. The authentication giant
3 factors to consider when building an early-stage cloud sales team
Founders often come from successful cloud firms and have seen what an efficient sales machine looks like at the growth stage. But that is very different from a company just starting its sales engine.
Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify
Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch of a pilot program designed to explore what it calls “user billing choice.&#
Twitter might start charging for TweetDeck through Twitter Blue
Twitter has been spotted working on making TweetDeck a premium feature through its Twitter Blue subscription service. According to reverse app engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who searches the code of mobi
The product-led growth playbook
While nothing is inherently wrong with building deep product moats, it is more prudent to focus on things where you can be at least 10x better than everyone else.
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs
Google Cloud today launched its Suspend/Resume feature for virtual machines into general availability. Before it launched this feature as an alpha a couple of years ago, the only option developers had
Despite declines, the value of crypto assets in DeFi protocols is up 3x from a year ago
Total value locked across all decentralized finance (DeFi) chains is down from all time highs, but that hasn’t been true for most of the major protocols over the past week.
Nvidia’s Clara Holoscan MGX means to bring high-powered AI to the doctor’s office
This week, Nvidia, a company best known for its high-powered graphic processing units (GPUs) debuted a platform for the development of AI-powered medical devices. The device, called Clara Holoscan MGX
Dear Sophie: How long does it take to get International Entrepreneur Parole?
Both my co-founder and I have E-2 status. We need to find a quick visa option, as a VC investment will dilute our equity and we will no longer be eligible. How long does IEP take? How can we expedite?
What Yuga Labs wants to build after raising $450M
With popular NFT projects under its belt, and some evidence of ability to use one collection of digital assets to grow another, Yuga has ambitious plans for the coming years.
Hyundai’s solar car roof isn’t as dumb as it sounds
The new hybrid Hyundai Sonata has solar cells built into its roof. After baking in the sun all day, the car can add 3-4 miles to its range. That might sound underwhelming, but my EV discharges far mor
Arizona becomes first state to offer driver’s license and state ID in Apple Wallet
Apple today announced that Arizona will become the first U.S. state to offer residents the ability to digitally store their driver’s license or state ID in Apple’s Wallet app. The company
Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ breach after hackers publish Bing, Cortana source code
Microsoft has confirmed that it was breached by the Lapsus$ hacking group. In a blog post on Tuesday — published hours after Lapsus$ posted a torrent file containing partial source code from Bing, B
Google is moving the ‘Movies & TV’ tab from the Play Store to Google TV
Google is removing the “Movies & TV” section from the Play Store and moving it to the Google TV app, the company announced in a blog post. The upcoming change will go into effect start
Meet and grow your founder network in small group discussions at TechCrunch Early Stage
Who’s ready for startup bootcamp, TechCrunch style? On April 14 — that’s less than a month away — TechCrunch Early Stage kicks off a day-long summit focused exclusively on new founders and em