Intuitive Machines faces early end to moon mission after lander tips over
Intuitive Machines’ first moon mission will come to a premature end due to the spacecraft landing on its side, which altered how the solar panels are positioned in relation to the sun, the company said in an update Tuesday morning. Flight controllers were still working to determine the battery’s remaining
Read moreNewsmast brings curated ‘communities’ to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon
An organization called Newsmast is introducing a new approach to decentralized social media with the launch of an updated version of its Mastodon mobile app that now integrates content from two servers into one interface — a different approach compared with how Mastodon, the open source Twitter/X alternative, typically works.
Read moreMWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including HTC’s VR headset, ‘rollable’ Motorola concept phone
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.
Read moreHow to convince your CEO it’s worth paying down tech debt
On this episode: Matt Van Itallie, Founder and CEO at Sema, a company that assesses code to improve outcomes for users, companies, and developers. Plus, friend of the show and erstwhile cohost Cassidy Williams joins the conversation.
Read moreHTC Vive became an enterprise product while you weren’t looking
A lot has changed at HTC in the decade since a small team broke off to form its mixed reality division. In fact, it’s a fundamentally different business in several meaningful ways. For one thing, you can’t call HTC a phone company any longer. Contrary to popular perception, the Taiwanese
Read moreApple cancels its autonomous electric car project and is laying off some workers
Apple is scuttling its secretive, long-running project to build an autonomous electric car, according to Bloomberg. The company has already started laying off some people who worked on the project, TechCrunch has learned. The scope of the layoffs could not immediately be determined. Many of the nearly 2,000 employees who
Read moreTikTok loses even more songs over its dispute with Universal Music Group
TikTok is losing even more songs over its quarrel with Universal Music Group (UMG), as the social media network is starting to remove songs published by UMG, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. The row between the two companies began last month when UMG announced that it failed to
Read moreMWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit
Ethiopian startup eQub won the fintech pitching battle at 4YFN 2024, the startup event of Mobile World Congress. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHow to become a senior software engineer: Skills required to move from junior to senior level
Navigating the move from a junior to a senior software engineering role can be daunting. Many junior engineers feel uncertain about what skills to hone, experiences to build, and strategies to use to advance to a senior-level role. Add to that the dizzying complexity of advanced software systems and the
Read moreSynFlora is working on bioengineering a skincare revolution
Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow in Barcelona this week. The Spanish startup, whose three co-founders all have PhDs, is working to improve understanding of the skin’s microbiome and engineer skin microbes with the goal
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