After the app economy slowed for the first time ever in 2022, things picked up pace again over the past year. According to app intelligence provider data.ai’s annual […]
Alphabet quantum spin-out Sandbox AQ acquires Good Chemistry
Sandbox AQ, the AI and quantum firm spun out of Google parent company Alphabet in 2022, has acquired Good Chemistry, a Vancouver-based quantum and computational chemistry startup, for […]
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro taps simulation company Foretellix to cut R&D costs
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut […]
10 Games That Stunned In 2023
I love the idea of annual top 10 lists until it comes time to actually make one. Then my perpetually indecisive brain freaks out about whether the game I spent 100 hours playing was actually any good, the tension between an interesting game and a fun one, and the cries of all the games I never finished or even got…
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NASA’s Mars isolation experiment hits half-year mark
On Dec. 31, four people living in a NASA-run Mars simulation will have reached the halfway point in their 378-day isolation study.
Armored Core 6 Secretly Has 2023’s Best Video Game Villain
Mech pilots have feelings, too. Armored Core VI is a game about blowing up everything in sight with a smorgasbord of overpowered weapons. But it’s also a game about vain, self-righteous men who think it’s their God-given right to take over a planet. While you only know them as codenames, characters like Snail and…
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National Lab simulates Armageddon-style nuclear asteroid deflection
As if last year’s fabulous Dual Asteroid Redirection Test firing a satellite bullet into an asteroid wasn’t enough, now researchers are doing detailed simulation of the nuclear deflection […]
Against Pseudanthropy | TechCrunch
“Shall I say thou art a man, that hast all the symptoms of a beast? How shall I know thee to be a man? By thy shape? That […]
5 tech trends we want to see in 2024
These are the five tech trends we want to see in 2024.
Robotics Q&A with Nvidia’s Deepu Talla
A version of this q&a first appeared in TechCrunch’s free robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. We’re wrapping up our end-of-year robotics Q&A series with this entry from Deepu […]