Mexican region gives Tesla and its suppliers a dedicated border crossing lane

Tesla suppliers traveling from Nuevo León, Mexico, to Texas now have their very own dedicated border patrol lane. Elon Musk’s electric car company, which recently relocated its headquarters from... Read more »

Google’s Pixel 6a is a budget device with the heart of a flagship

It’s probably hyperbole to credit Google’s Pixel A devices for single-handedly keeping the broader line alive during some admittedly lean times. Let’s be honest, much of that goes to... Read more »

The SEC takes a long-feared position in Coinbase insider trading suit

A former product manager at Coinbase has been arrested, the US Justice Department announced Thursday, after being charged in a cryptocurrency insider trading scheme related to the listing of... Read more »

The Amazon effect is fueling a wave of robotics investments, acquisitions and maybe an IPO

Amazon’s drive to get as many products to customers as quickly as possible combined with a decade of technological breakthroughs, a labor shortage and skyrocketing e-commerce growth have aligned... Read more »

Slowdown? What slowdown? Menlo Ventures bags $761M for its largest-ever opportunities fund

Startup founders and laid-off tech workers know all too well about the funding slowdown of 2022, but the boom times aren’t over for everyone. U.S. venture firms in particular... Read more »

Daily Crunch: Amazon wades deeper into healthcare with its $3.9B purchase of One Medical

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. Well hello again! It’s Thursday —... Read more »

Taking robots from the lab to the real world

Engineers and robotics fans can nerd out about robots in the lab and the workshop all day long. It’s a very long road from a ridiculously cool, glorified science... Read more »

Harmonizing human-robot interactions for a ‘new and weird’ world of work

Robots have always found it a challenge to work with people, and vice versa. Two people on the cutting edge of improving that relationship joined us for TC Sessions:... Read more »

Snap misses on Q2 revenue, declines to forecast its future financial performance

Snap released its second-quarter earnings on Thursday and missed analyst’s expectations. Revenue was $1.11 billion for the quarter, up 13% from the same period a year earlier but coming... Read more »

Robotics and AI are going from cage to stage

A lot of promising companies come out of work by researchers at universities, or even grad students who have struck on some new innovation. But the transition from tech-focused... Read more »
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