Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric pickup truck that will start under $40,000
The Ford F-150, the profitable cornerstone of the U.S. automaker’s business, now has an all-electric sibling.
Ford unveiled Wednesday the F-150 Lightning, an all-electric pickup truck that is a critical piece of the company’s $22 billion investment into electrification. The vehicle is
Philippine e-commerce enabler Great Deals raises $30M Series B led by logistics firm Fast Group
"attachment_2154535" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1024px">Steve Sy, CEO of Great Deals, and William Chiongbian II, CEO of Fast Group, sign the contract for the companies’ strategic partnership. Image Credits: Great Deals
Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps bra
Daily Crunch: India gives WhatsApp one week to revoke its updated privacy policy
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Happy Wednesday, friends! It was another super-busy day in the tech world. I had my sights on Squarespace's public debut, as well as the value of Coinbase'
Arrival’s Denis Sverdlov on the new era of car manufacturing
Electric vehicle company Arrival wants to break the current auto manufacturing model. Instead of one giant factory and an assembly line, Arrival's commercial electric vans, buses and cars are robotically built in small, regional microfactories, of which the company wants to open 31 by the end o
Wisk Aero files injunction in trade secret lawsuit against Archer Aviation
Electric aviation company Wisk Aero filed a motion for a preliminary injunction Wednesday in its ongoing lawsuit with rival electric air travel startup Archer Aviation. The injunction could put a serious wrench in Archer's operations should the courts approve it.
Wisk has asked the court to imm
Dear Sophie: What's happening with visa application receipt notices?
Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says
‘It’s almost like placing an IV’: Brain monitoring electrode receives FDA 510(k) clearance
An FDA pathway that's greased the gears for COVID-19 vaccines and drugs has paved the way for something else: a new take on electroencephalography (EEG), the established brain-monitoring technique in which metallic electrodes are placed on the scalp to measure the brain's electrical activit
OpenUnit raises a $1M seed round to be the online face of self-storage
How are mom-and-pop self-storage facilities meant to keep up with the tech offered by the massive, ever-growing chains?
That’s a key part of the idea behind OpenUnit, a team I first wrote about in August of last year. You bring the storage units, they bring the website, payment processing and
5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs
Approaching institutions to raise capital for your venture capital or private equity fund is relatively transparent, but what if you're targeting family offices and high-net-worth individuals? I see five innovative new methods for raising capital that emerging managers such as Versatile VC are
Apple Watch gets a motion-controlled cursor with ‘Assistive Touch’
Tapping the tiny screen of the Apple Watch with precision has a certain level of fundamental difficulty, but for some people with disabilities it’s genuinely impossible. Apple has remedied this with a new mode called “Assistive Touch” that detects hand gestures to control a cursor
A new tip line invites anyone to name and shame companies for dark pattern designs
You may not be familiar with the term “dark patterns” but the manipulative design phenomenon is ubiquitous in the apps and services we use every day.
Dark patterns nudge consumers to make choices that enrich companies, usually at their own expense. That can look like misleading wording
Liquid Instruments raises $13.7M to bring its education-focused 8-in-1 engineering gadget to market
Part of learning to be an engineer is understanding the tools you’ll have to work with — voltmeters, spectrum analyzers, things like that. But why use two, or eight for that matter, where one will do? The Moku:Go combines several commonly used tools into one compact package, saving room on
Google Maps to add more detailed maps, crowd indicators, better routing and more
Google has announced a series of updates coming to Google Maps as part of the company’s larger goal of delivering more than 100 AI-powered improvements to the platform by year-end. Among the new improvements, detailed during Google I/O’s developer conference this week, are new routing u
Mapping out one edtech company's $200M bet on lifelong learning
Mumbai-based Emeritus, an edtech company that works with universities to create online upskilling courses for employed folks, just spent a big chunk of cash to break into K-12.
Emeritus, which is part of the Eruditus group, announced today that it plans to acquire iD Tech, a STEM education service