SpaceX launches Polaris Dawn, where astronauts will venture further than any humans in more than 50 years
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours of Tuesday morning carrying a crew that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and travel higher than any crewed mission in fifty years. The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 AM EST after several
Read moreAmazon trials last-mile deliveries by tram in Frankfurt
Amazon has announced a new pilot package delivery service in Frankfurt, Germany, that meshes electric road and rail transport. The e-commerce giant will use vans from its delivery depot to the first tram stop on the outskirts of Frankfurt, with the city’s new Gütertram service transporting the goods to awaiting
Read moreSeparable functions in different contexts
I was skimming through the book Mathematical Reflections [1] recently. He was discussing a set of generalizations [2] of the Star of David theorem from combinatorics. The theorem is so named because if you draw a Star of David by connecting points in Pascal’s triangle then each side corresponds to
Read moreStackGen raises $12.3M for its infrastructure-from-code service
In addition to the code, StackGen also visualizes what the new infrastructure will look like, and users can drag and drop additional resources in this interfaces as needed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreInversion Space accelerates orbital reentry vehicle tech with $71M Space Force contract
Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail and air. Why not space, too? That’s the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that’s developing a reentry capsule that it says will be capable of autonomously landing anywhere on Earth to a football field-sized degree of accuracy.
Read moreOne of the best ways to get value for AI coding tools: generating tests
More code isn't always a good thing, but fewer bugs is.
Read moreHardware companies dominate a list of promising climate tech startups
A new report from Congruent Ventures and SVB highlights startups that could significantly reduce carbon emissions, mitigating climate change. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSmartcat secures $43M for its AI-powered translation platform
Smartcat, founded in 2016, is among the vendors providing automated translation tools geared toward enterprises, and its co-founder and CEO, Ivan Smolnikov, says business is good. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreForm3, a quiet giant in UK fintech, raises $60M at a $570M valuation
Form3, a startup building tools to connect financial players with each other to enable account payments, has it raised $60 million to continue expanding its business. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle loses appeal against EU’s €2.4B Shopping antitrust decision, as bloc also wins Apple state aid appeal
Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The bloc found its shopping comparison service had broken competition rules — hitting Alphabet, Google’s parent, with an at-the-time record-breaking €2.42 billion penalty (around $2.7 billion at current exchange rates) and ordering
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