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10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts

Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to

Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024

Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023.

Allozymes puts its accelerated enzymatics to work on a data and AI play, raising $15M

Allozymes uses a method in which millions of enzymes can be tested per day, rather than just a few hundred.

Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle

The numbers are in, and the cloud infrastructure market grew at a brisk pace this quarter driven by increasing interest in generative AI.

TechCrunch Minute: Spotify’s move to paywall lyrics is putting pressure on free users

Spotify’s slow movement to put lyrics behind its paid service wall in its music service are about as popular as you would expect. Precise details of the update are evolving but what we can say a

UnitedHealth data breach should be a wakeup call for the UK and NHS

The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO And

NASA is expanding its Wallops Island facility to support three times as many launches

NASA is kicking off a formal environmental assessment of its facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, to increase the number of authorized rocket launches at the site by almost 200%, according to slide

When a startup is better off saying no to revenue

It's hard for early-stage founders to say no to revenue from a large customer, whose needs might not align with the broader customer base.

How Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M

Y Combinator's founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That's how medical records AI startup Hona was founded.

Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech

The downturn in venture capital funding has impacted startups, VC firms, and accelerators alike. One company in the final category, Techstars, has been shaking up its operations for some time now, lea

Google dubs Epic’s demands from its antitrust win ‘unnecessary’ and ‘far beyond the scope’ of the verdict

The new filing, along with Epic's proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions to take next to put Google’s power in check.

Apple: Pay attention to emerging markets, not falling China sales

Apple’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri challenged investor worries over an 8% drop in China revenue by noting that sales in other emerging markets are growing. “When we start looking

Apple iPad event: What to expect

So far, the biggest surprise about May 7’s “Let Loose” event is that it’s happening at all. We’re just over a month out from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and yet the comp

Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition

Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper

Apple earnings see 10% iPhone sales drop, massive buyback fuels stock jump

Apple on Thursday reported a 10% drop in iPhone sales for the second fiscal quarter, dropping from $51.33 billion to $45.96 billion, year-over-year. The slowdown was fueled, in part, by an 8% drop in

Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time

Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door to

Alliance DAO is attracting fewer US founders amid crypto crackdown

The graduates of Alliance DAO are often useful indicators of investor appetite and user adaption trends within the crypto space. The latest batch of the stage-agnostic crypto accelerator, unveiled tod

Rivian wins $827M incentive package to expand Illinois factory for R2 production

Rivian is getting $827 million in incentives from the state of Illinois to support building its next-generation electric vehicle, known as the R2. The company announced Thursday that the Illinois Depa

EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn

A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of

They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups

Lacey Hunter thought all was well as she put her startup through the three-month Newchip accelerator. Then the organization filed for bankruptcy in May 2023. Things went from bad to worse later that y
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