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    CMU teaches its snake robot to swim – TechCrunch

    The snake robot has been something of an institution in the Carnegie Mellon robotics labs. Every time I visit the school, the biomimetic robot...

    Facebook tests video speed dating events with ‘Sparked’ – TechCrunch

    Facebook confirmed it’s testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked, after the app’s website was spotted by The Verge. Unlike dating app giants such...

    What’s fueling hydrogen tech? – TechCrunch

    Hydrogen moves from the back of the lab to the star of the show Hydrogen — the magical gas that Jules Verne predicted in 1874...

    Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 is filling up fast. Apply today. – TechCrunch

    Startup Alley — the very name conjures up images of early-stage startups demonstrating game-changing products, platforms and services to thousands of Disrupt attendees and...

    5 questions about Grab’s epic SPAC investor deck – TechCrunch

    As expected, Southeast Asian super-app Grab is going public via a SPAC, or blank check company. The combination, which TechCrunch discussed over the weekend, will...

    Clubhouse rolls out payments to over 60K creators following initial test – TechCrunch

    Clubhouse is rapidly expanding access to payments, its first revenue-generating feature for creators, since its launch into testing earlier this month. At the beginning...

    Can Medical Alexas Make Us Healthier?

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Are voice recognition technologies like Alexa helpful...

    Apple’s next event is April 20 – TechCrunch

    Apple only dropped info about WWDC two weeks back, but the company just announced another event – this one happening much sooner. After Siri...

    Amazon Workers Defeat Union Effort in Alabama

    Amazon workers at a giant warehouse in Alabama voted decisively against forming a union on Friday, squashing the most significant organizing drive in the...

    Disney and ad-tech firms agree to privacy changes for children’s apps.

    In legal settlements that could reshape the children’s app market, Disney, Viacom and 10 advertising technology firms have agreed to remove certain advertising software...

    JXL turns Jira into spreadsheets – TechCrunch

    Atlassian’s Jira is an extremely powerful issue tracking and project management tool, but it’s not the world’s most intuitive piece of software either. Spreadsheets,...

    Expect an even hotter AI venture capital market in the wake of the Microsoft-Nuance deal – TechCrunch

    Microsoft’s huge purchase of healthtech AI company Nuance led the technology news cycle this week. The $19.7 billion transaction is Microsoft’s second-largest to date,...

    SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to deliver an Astrobotic lander and NASA water-hunting rover to the Moon in 2023 – TechCrunch

    SpaceX is set to send a payload to the Moon in 2023, using its larger (and infrequently used) Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. The mission...

    Microsoft is really pushing Teams with its latest accessories – TechCrunch

    The new Surface Laptop was the marquee arrival in today’s Microsoft announcement, but boy howdy, the company also dropped a whole bunch of new...

    Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop goes on sale this week, starting at $999 – TechCrunch

    Microsoft is understandably positioning the latest additions to its Surface line as productivity devices. Laptop sales, in particular, have jumped amid the pandemic, as...

    Hatch, a neobank for SMBs, launches with $20M in funding from investors like Kleiner Perkins, Foundation and Plaid’s founders – TechCrunch

    After his last startup, Framed Data, was acquired by Square, Thomson Nguyen began exploring new ideas. While an entrepreneur-in-residence at Kleiner Perkins, Nguyen interviewed...