Zeekr RT, the robotaxi built for Waymo, has the tiniest wipers

For the autonomous vehicle-obsessed, the Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi is nothing new. In 2021, Waymo and Zeekr announced a partnership. Waymo first showed a concept of the purpose-built robotaxi in late 2022 and began testing prototype versions on public roads in San Francisco last year, even as it began rolling out its commercial fleet of Jaguar I-Pace […]
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Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades. “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law,” said Huang in an interview with TechCrunch on Tuesday, the morning after he delivered a keynote […]
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CES 2025 Day 1: Honda, BMW, X’s victory lap, and the first show floor gadget reveals

CES 2025 is officially underway in Las Vegas. Monday’s press day saw keynotes from Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, and Sony, among others, while Tuesday was all about the exciting new gadgets on the show floor. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest reveals at the conference.  Below, you’ll find a list of the […]
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X hires former WSJ editor and bureau chief to lead news group

X, formerly Twitter, wants to make its platform a home to the future and news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal to lead its news group and partnership team at X. The hiring news was announced on […]
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This baseball radar gun plugs into an iPhone

Tucked away in the recesses CES 2025’s Eureka Hall startup showcase, CaiqueTech showed off a novel take on the tried-and-true baseball radar gun. After building a standalone device, the Korean firm has created a modular version that plugs directly into a phone via the USB-C port. The PI SpeedGun module has radar built in. While […]
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Feds investigate Tesla’s ‘Actual Smart Summon’ after several crashes

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into 2.56 million Tesla vehicles after several crashes involving the automaker’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature. Tesla released Actual Smart Summon, or ASS for short, via software update in September. It allows Tesla owners to use their app to command the vehicle drive itself […]
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Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking, add Dana White to board

Meta employees internally criticized the company’s decision to end third-party fact-checking two weeks before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers

Deep Fission’s small modular reactors would be lowered on cables down a 30-inch, one-mile deep borehole.
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Chinese VCs are hounding failed founders to claw back their investments

In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. […]
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Dell Phases Out XPS Branding for New Pro and Pro Max Laptop Tiers

Named brands like XPS and Inspiron will now fall under size categories. Plus, Dell expanded its partnership with AMD.

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