Photo credit: Darrell Etherington Apple will stop selling its Series 9 smartwatch, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news shared by 9to5Mac follows an International Trade Commission (ITC) ruling in October arising from a patent dispute with California-based medical device company Masimo. The dispute stems from the blood sensor monitor on the latest flagship smartwatch. The move … [Read more…]
6:35am PST • December 9, 2023 Photo credit: Arthur Debate / Getty Images Jonathan Golden Contributor Jonathan Golden is a partner at NEA and former product director at Airbnb. More posts from this contributor Changing consumer behavior is the key to unlocking multi-billion dollar businesses Generative AI is a paradigm shift in technology and will … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Anduril Leading defense technology startup Anduril has developed a new product designed to counter the proliferation of low-cost, high-performance aerial threats. The product is called Roadrunner, a modular, twin-engine, autonomous, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed for low cost. Anduril has also developed a variant called Roadrunner ammunition or Roadrunner-M, a “high … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon kicked off its annual AWS re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas this evening with several new serverless offerings designed to make it easier to manage its Aurora, Elastic Cache and Redshift serverless services. Matt Wood, AWS vice president, says Aurora Serverless is great for getting … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage to its acquisition and ownership by General Motors, has resigned, according to an email sent to employees Sunday evening that was viewed by TechCrunch. In a separate internal email, also seen by … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Hey guys, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that rounds up the top tech and technology-related stories from the last few days. With the holidays just around the corner, this reporter expected a quieter week. But the opposite happened – there was no shortage of stories … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Kirsten Korosec General Motors has temporarily halted sales of the all-new Chevy Blazer EV after a series of software problems occurred in some of the first vehicles delivered. The automaker told TechCrunch that owners are experiencing issues with the SUV’s screens and with charging at DC Fast stations, confirming previous reports from journalists … [Read more…]
Photo credit: Philippe Lopez/Getty Images Bird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping a turbulent year for the electric scooter company. In a press release today, Bird confirmed that the company had initiated a “financial restructuring process to strengthen its balance sheet” and that the company was continuing to operate as usual to pursue “long-term, … [Read more…]