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If you haven’t heard, Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has another company — his third by our count. And this time it’s focused on robotics. The serial entrepreneur is best known for Rivian, the buzzy EV maker that was thrust into the spotlight in 2018 after debuting an electric truck with its now-famous gear tunnel.  The publicly traded company is now a few months away from delivering its most important EV yet, a mid-sized SUV called the R2. This EV is cheaper to build than its flagship R1 counterpart (Scaringe tells me “roughly half” the cost), and yet, in…

Last week, Huawei teased the design of the Enjoy 90 Pro Max and the Enjoy 90 Plus. Now, the company has gone ahead and revealed the launch date of the Enjoy 90 series in China. In separate posts on Weibo, Huawei confirmed that the Enjoy 90 series phones will debut in China on March 23 during the company’s Spring product launch event. The Enjoy 90 Pro Max will feature slim display bezels and a hole-punch cutout for the selfie camera. The teaser poster also confirms that the handset will sport a circular rear camera module housing dual…

Looking to build AI data centers, Meta is looking to save money by laying off as many as 20% of its current headcount. Source link

In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign to get the richest people on earth to promise, publicly, to give most of their money away. The moment seemed to call for it. Tech was minting billionaires faster than any industry in history, and the question of how those fortunes would impact society was just beginning to take shape. “We’re talking trillions over time,” Buffett told Charlie Rose that year. The trillions materialized. The giving, less so. The numbers are no longer shocking to anyone paying attention. The top 1% of American households now hold roughly as…

Two Netflix films, “Frankenstein” and “KPop Demon Hunters,” won multiple Academy Awards tonight. Director Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Frankenstein” won for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while Netflix’s most-watched movie ever “KPop Demon Hunters” won for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song. In recent years, films produced and distributed by streaming companies have become a steady presence at the Oscars, with “Roma,” “The Power of the Dog,” and “All Quiet on the Western Front” winning major awards. However, the biggest prize seems to remain out of reach for Netflix — Apple’s “CODA,”…

Pebblebee Evercolor: Freeze Frame offers brighter LED strobes! HomeAndroid AccessoriesPebblebee Evercolor: Freeze Frame Bluetooth Tracker Gadget Flow EditorsPebblebee Evercolor: Freeze Frame Bluetooth TrackerIlluminate your belongings with the Pebblebee Evercolor: Freeze Frame. It’s a Bluetooth tracker that clips to keys, bags, and gear while pairing with Apple Find My or Google Find Hub for easy tracking from devices you already use.Apple and Android support: Choose Apple Find My for iOS or Google Find Hub for Android, so the same tracker fits mixed-device households.Find it by sound and light: Louder buzzer works with brighter LED strobes, helping you locate items fast in noisy…

Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models. But as the AI model makers add more features, investors are wary of startups that could become so easily unnecessary. Case in point: when reviewing more 4,000 applications for the joint AI accelerator for India startups run by Google and venture firm Accel, “wrapper” ideas dominated. But none of them were among the five startups for the latest cohort, Accel partner Prayank Swaroop told TechCrunch (pictured above). Announced in November, the AI-focused Atoms program by Google and Accel aims to back early-stage…

ByteDance has paused plans to launch its new AI video model globally, according to a report in The Information. The Chinese company, best known as TikTok’s parent organization (and now a minority shareholder in its U.S. spinoff), launched Seedance 2.0 in China back in February. Brief videos generated by the model, including a clip featuring Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt, soon went viral and drew intense criticism from Hollywood.  While one successful screenwriter declared that the footage meant, “It’s likely over for us,” studios quickly sent ByteDance a flurry of cease-and-desist letters, with Disney’s lawyers accusing the company of a…

Belkin UltraCharge Pro powers your iPhone to 50% in 25 minutes! HomeAirPods AccessoriesBelkin UltraCharge Pro: 3-in-1 Magnetic Charging Dock Gadget Flow EditorsBelkin UltraCharge Pro: 3-in-1 Magnetic Charging DockPower up your Apple gadgets with the Belkin UltraCharge Pro, a compact 3-in-1 magnetic dock that charges them all on one base. It delivers faster wireless charging while keeping heat under control.Fast charging: Charges Qi2 25 W phones up to 25 W, so you can top up without a cable.ChillBoost active cooling: Built-in cooling helps reduce heat during fast charging. This helps keep charging speeds steady and supports battery health over time.Layout: Charge…

Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s history, as well as the largest ever acquisition of a venture-backed startup. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan, Sean O’Kane, and I were joined by Shardul Shah, a partner at Wiz’s largest shareholder Index Ventures. Shah walked us through his history with Wiz, which extends before Wiz itself — he previously backed Adallom, the startup previously founded by Wiz’s Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik.  We also asked Shah about why he thinks the company was such…