This deep into the crypto winter big venture fund debuts are few and far between, a far cry compared to previous years. But the freeze is not stopping some venture capitalists from launching new funds...
Austin, Texas-based Episode Six, a payments and banking infrastructure provider, today announced that it raised $48 million in a Series C funding round led by Avenir with participation from Anthos Cap...
One of the things I love most about working at Ars Technica is the lunchtime bike rides. My home in the northwest suburbs of Chicago lies two miles from the Des Plaines River Trail and about three mil...
On Tuesday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Tesla held its annual meeting. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told rapturous attendees that 2023 would finally see the Cybertruck go into production and...
Although the law banning the installation of lead pipes in the United States took effect in 1988, that still leaves many homes across the country with plumbing that may contain lead. So, how can you d...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here's a handy roundup of the last week's stories in the world of machine learning, along with notab...
Tesla is no longer making a right-hand drive version of its Model S and Model X electric vehicles. The decision means that customers in countries that drive on the other side of the road like the UK h...
TikTok has upended how music is discovered, used and consumed these days; now, its long-term effort to build a business around that is getting a boost. The Bytedance-owned app today announced a search...
[photo1]David NieldAI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard are certainly having a moment--the next generation of conversational software tools promise to do everything from taking over our...
CorrActions, an Israeli startup that, among other things, built a driver monitoring system that can understand a driver's cognitive state, today announced that it has raised a strategic investment fro...
Jacopo PriscoThe Romans tried it first, in 250 BC, to transport 100 elephants captured in battle from Palermo, on the island of Sicily, to Rome. According to the Greek historian Strabo, they used empt...
Sales of new Tesla electric vehicles rose for the first quarter of 2023, according to sales and production figures released by the EV maker on Sunday. For the three months between the start of the yea...
[photo1]Lily Hay NewmanThe easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital footprints as you...
Robots have conquered ProMat. The supply chain and logistics show is a kind of perfect microcosm of where the industry is heading. Many of the show's main attractions have moved from center stage to t...
Local governments in the southwestern U.S. are putting up $150,000 to back what they say is a pioneering effort to "turn air into concrete at scale." The funds will help cover the cost of the "referen...
It seems like every company makes a fitness tracker these days. Even Amazon has created one--and that's in addition to the seemingly endless stream of no-name brands offered on its website. Aside from...
When developers are building software with API access, they need to figure out how to bill users fairly for hitting the API gateway. A flat fee probably wouldn't cover the heavy users and would be unf...
Janky and Guggimon, "synthetic" celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where they exist as influencers with millions of followers, hyping up other bra...
Startups are raising less, and less often, right now, and some portfolios are buckling under the weight of write-downs from lower valuations and startups closing for business. But the venture industry...
Normally reliable sources are predicting a quiet 2023 for the iPad, with few if any major upgrades. But that may just be setting the tablet up for a big update in 2024--supply-chain analys...