The Apple Car that never was: A timeline
Apple’s secretive car project died without ever seeing the light of day. It’s a fitting end, considering we’ve collectively spent the last decade aware of it without really knowing too much about what the tech colossus was planning. Neither has Apple, apparently. Dozens of contemporaneous reports over that span clued
Read moreSnowflake CEO Frank Slootman stepping down — and Wall St hates it
Apparently Frank Slootman, the veteran tech executive, was popular with investors, at least judging from their reaction that he will be stepping down as CEO of Snowflake. The company stock price has plunged more than 24% in after-hours trading on the news. Slootman will retreat into the role of chairman
Read moreMusic of the spheres
The idea of “music of the spheres” dates back to the Pythagoreans. They saw an analogy between orbital frequency ratios and musical frequency ratios. HD 110067 is a star 105 light years away that has six known planets in orbital resonance. The orbital frequencies of the planets are related to
Read moreToyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai
Despite automakers like Toyota and Honda pushing fuel-cell vehicles, hydrogen’s future lies elsewhere. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreLeaked documents show Techstars lost $7 million in 2023 but still had plenty of cash
Cuts to Techstars’ staff and its decision to shutter certain accelerators came after it missed its 2023 revenue goals, according to documents outlining its preliminary 2023 results viewed by TechCrunch. Techstars also lost millions of dollars more by year’s end (in adjusted EBITA) than it had anticipated it would, additional
Read moreTim Cook says Apple will ‘break new ground’ in GenAI this year
Apple CEO Tim Cook is promising that Apple will “break new ground” on GenAI this year. Cook made the pronouncement during the company’s annual shareholders meeting today, which came in the same week the company reportedly scuttled its multibillion-dollar, decade-long plan to build an EV. Some of the staff on
Read moreBluesky snags former Twitter/X Trust & Safety exec cut by Musk
Emerging decentralized social network and X rival Bluesky has just landed a notable former Twitter leader as its new Head of Trust and Safety. On Wednesday, the company announced it has appointed Aaron Rodericks, who most recently co-led the Trust and Safety team at Twitter, to this new position. Though
Read moreUnderstanding Cookies and Sessions in React
Dive into implementation techniques and best practices for cookies and sessions in React, to ensure your React apps are efficient and secure. Continue reading Understanding Cookies and Sessions in React on SitePoint.
Read moreAnycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to warn of a security flaw
Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security flaw in the company’s systems. Numerous threads on news sharing site Reddit show similar reports (hat tip to @dan) of users receiving an unsolicited text file on their Anycubic
Read moreMWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Nothing Phone (2a), 4FYN winner
The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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