Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare.
Plus: Withings collabs with Clue to offer advanced women’s cycle tracking, there’s a new Balmuda toaster, and Shokz shows off Dolby Audio–powered open earbuds.
On today's episode of Uncanny Valley, we cover everything from what exactly the DHS is doing with Americans' DNA, to the rising influence of Nick Fuentes.
Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."
Apple's flagship earbuds are revised and better than ever, especially if you crave silence.
Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.
By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.
This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what's really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.
Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it's profitable.
The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
Fifteen years after "The Social Network," director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called "The Social Reckoning."
YouTube Music's new AI hosts are currently being tested through YouTube Labs, the platform's new hub for AI experiments.
On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history and future.
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A wider leadership shake-up at Hyundai's electric air taxi startup Supernal is underway just a few weeks after it paused work on its vehicle program and its CEO and CTO left.
From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent shuffle. Watch the full episode for more about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by […]
From Montenegro to Northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?
Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records, and the data was eventually secured. Indian fintech company NuPay took responsibility for the "configuration" error.
Flipkart is set to become the most valuable startup to shift its headquarters back to India ahead of a planned IPO.
