Laurel: Well, let's start off. So, what has BP's move to the cloud been like? From your perspectives, what are the major benefits and challenges with cloud transformation? Keisha: Yeah, so our journey from my perspective has been exciting, it's been complex,...
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Y Combinator Demo Day, smart chastity cage hacked, and the feds investigate Tesla
Hey, lovely people — it’s that time of week again: Week in Review (WiR) time. For those unfamiliar, WiR is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the major events in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too busy to keep tabs on recent happenings,...
Best Internet Providers in Pittsburgh
You need to ask one question when shopping for internet in Pittsburgh: Is Verizon Fios available at my address? If it is, you’re in luck. Verizon Fios is CNET’s pick for the best overall internet provider in Pittsburgh. If you can’t get Verizon, Xfinity and...
NASA’s Crew-7 mission has launched four astronauts into orbit
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center this morning at 3:27AM ET, NASA announced today. The rocket pushed four astronauts on NASA’s Crew-7 mission into orbit before a scheduled Sunday morning dock with the International Space Station...
Open source’s future, and cancer drugs shortages
When Xerox donated a new laser printer to MIT in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. While the early decades of software development generally ran on a culture of open access, this new printer ran on inaccessible...
Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)
Welcome, friends, to TechCrunch’s Week in Review (WiR), the newsletter where we recap the week that was in tech. For those new to WiR, think of it as a digest of stories and pieces that topped the charts over the past five days or so. In this week’s edition of...
Summer Eye Care: 7 Tips for Preventing Eye Damage From Extreme Heat and UV Rays
We've all heard about the importance of sunscreen -- but did you know that taking care of your eyes in the heat is just as important as protecting your skin? According to the World Health Organization, there are 15 million people in the world who are blind from...
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ TV remote were a mechanical marvel
The Zenith Space Command, one of the first wireless television remotes ever to exist, is a monument to a time before we took the remote for granted. It also just so happened to contain one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history. In today’s...
The Download: digital dollars, and AI guidelines
In 2020, digital currencies were one of the hottest topics in town. China was well on its way to launching its own central bank digital currency, or CBDC, and many other countries launched CBDC research projects. Even Facebook has proposed a global digital...
Prolific raises $32M to train and stress-test AI models using its network of 120K people
AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should: If the data used to train models is not deep, wide and reliable enough, any kind of curveball can send that AI in the wrong direction. A London startup...
Best Tablet Deals: Save Up to $200 on Microsoft Surface Pro 9 and More
Somewhere between a phone and a laptop, the tablet exists as an easy-to-carry option with a large enough screen for a more comfortable experience than you can get with most smartphones. The tablet market is vast, with a ton of options to choose from, but some...
EV charging in America: all the news about building a new electric car infrastructure
The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is way too much like smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Like USB-C, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is widely adopted by almost every manufacturer and...
