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Waymo, Google's former self-driving car project that's now an independent business unit under Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the eastern U.S. The company said Thursday it would be opening offices in Pittsburgh, joining a growing suite of companies developing and testing autonomous v

Absci Corp., a Vancouver company behind a multifaceted drug development platform, went public on Thursday. It's another sign of snowballing interest in new approaches to drug development — a traditionally risky business.  Absci focuses on speeding drug development in the preclinical stag

Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the company is testing a new feature called “Limits,” which would give users the ability to temporarily lock down their accounts when they’re being targeted by a flood of harassment. The announcement of the new feature was made today during a

Over the years, I've had a front-row seat to the future of technology. In my role at Y Combinator as director of admissions, I saw hundreds of startup pitches. Many shared a particular attribute: They followed the path of quickly growing users and monetizing the data extracted from the user.

Playdate, the adorable whimsy-and-nostalgia-box/handheld game system built by Panic (with some help from Teenage Engineering), has taken one more big step toward reality: it has an official preorder date. And it’s soon! The company announced this morning that preorders for the handheld will g

Rivian, the Amazon-backed electric automaker that aims to be the first to bring an EV pickup truck to market, plans to open a second U.S. manufacturing factory, sources told technewss, confirming an earlier report from Reuters. Rivian wouldn’t elaborate on when it planned to build the factor

With more venture funding flowing into the startup ecosystem than ever before, there’s never been a better time to be a growth expert. At technewss Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising earlier this month, Greylock Partners’ Mike Duboe dug into a number of lessons and pieces of wisdom

Tesla will secure nickel from the commodity production giant BHP, the automaker's latest move to secure direct sources of raw materials that are projected to surge in demand before the decade is out. BHP's Nickel West division will supply an undisclosed amount of the mineral from its mines

A large chunk of the internet dropped offline on Thursday. Some of the most popular sites, apps and services on the internet were down, including UPS and FedEx (which have since come back online), Airbnb, Fidelity, and others are reporting Steam, LastPass, and the PlayStation Network are all experi

India's central bank is considering launching a digital currency, according to a top executive, giving a clear indication of its intentions for the first time after previously stating that it was studying the idea. T Rabi Sankar, the deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India, said at a conferenc

Gopuff, the “instant” grocery delivery startup that has been on an acquisition and expansion tear in the last several months to scale its business, is also racing to raise money to fuel those efforts. Documents uncovered by Prime Unicorn Index and shared with technewss show that the st

Imagine a world where no one’s privacy is breached, no faces are scanned into a gargantuan database and no privacy laws are broken. This is a world that is fast approaching. Could companies simply dump the need for real-world CCTV footage, and switch to synthetic humans, acting out potential

Sendlane, a San Diego-based multichannel marketing automation platform, announced Thursday it raised $20 million in Series A funding. Five Elms Capital and others invested in the round to give Sendlane total funding of $23 million since the company was founded in 2018. Though the co

The myriad emerging and longer-term transportation technologies promise to change how people and packages move about the world or within their own neighborhoods. They also present myriad regulatory and policy hurdles that lawmakers, advocates and even investors and industry executives are attemptin