Max Q: A successful failure
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Starship’s successful failure Rocket Lab’s Electron goes suborbital News from Orbit Fab and more SpaceX launches fully stacked Starship for the first time SpaceX
Spam Texts Are Taking Over and There is No End in Sight
Americans are on track to receive a record-breaking 150 billion robotexts in 2022, according to Robokiller’s Mid-Year Report. Well, 2023 is about to shatter 2022 by 100+%, as Americans are expected to have over 180
Haltian nabs funds to equip office buildings with smart sensors
Adopting Internet of Things (IoT) tech for the office isn’t easy — especially at enterprise scale. Companies have IoT device administration to worry about, and also building out the infrastructure necessary to keep
Daily Crunch: App Store reviews and social media depict user backlash against Snapchat’s new AI chatbot
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. As Twitter continues its absolutely farcical march toward its own demise, we are
AI app Petey uses ChatGPT to make Apple Music playlists for you
Petey, the mobile app that introduced ChatGPT to Apple Watch users, recently brought its feature set to the iPhone, allowing users to access its AI assistant more quickly and even swap out Siri with Petey using
How Aurora is navigating the bumpy road to commercial self-driving trucks
Amid economic uncertainty, tight capital markets, wary investors and consolidation in the nascent autonomous vehicle industry, Aurora Innovation is still motoring on towards its target of commercializing
SEGA workers are forming a union
A group of 144 workers are forming a union at SEGA’s American headquarters in Irvine, California. SEGA follows in the footsteps of workers at other gaming companies like Microsoft-owned ZeniMax and Activision
Google brings generative AI to cybersecurity
There’s a new trend emerging in the generative AI space — generative AI for cybersecurity — and Google is among those looking to get in on the ground floor. At the RSA Conference 2023 today, Google announced Cloud
GitLab’s new security feature uses AI to explain vulnerabilities to developers
Developer platform GitLab today announced a new AI-driven security feature that uses a large language model to explain potential vulnerabilities to developers, with plans to expand this to automatically resolve
Precision fermentation’s capacity craze: Have we lost the plot?
Blake Byrne Contributor Blake Byrne is building a stealth mode biomanufacturing startup. A recent graduate of the University of Cambridge, he previously served on the Good Food Institute’s Science &