Amazon ends California drone deliveries Amazon confirmed it is ending Prime Air drone delivery operations in Lockeford, California. The Central California town of 3,500 was the company’s second U.S. drone delivery site, after College Statio...
Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024 Ghost, an open-source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps l...
‘Send now, pay later’ startup Pomelo lands $35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital, Founders Fund Pomelo, a startup that combines international money transfer with credit, has raised $35 million in a Series A round led by Dubai venture firm Vy Capital, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Additiona...
Tesla earnings week spotlights price cuts, Elon’s ‘balls to the wall’ autonomy push As Tesla gears up to report what will likely be unimpressive financial results for the first quarter on Tuesday, the company is making more moves to go “balls to the wall for autonomy,” as CEO Elon Mu...
Meta opens Quest OS to third-party headset makers, taps Lenovo and Xbox as partners Meta Horizon OS, the mixed reality operating system that powers Meta Quest headsets can now be used by third-party device makers, the company announced on Monday. The strategic move comes at a time wh...
Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...
TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open-source AI a boost New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open-source, helping the...