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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GettyImages-1371981344.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Refrigerators today run on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 years ago. You’d think we could have come up with something better by now. And we have, but nothing has been able to dethrone cheap, reliable vapor compression — the process that’s keeping your milk cold today. One…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Rev8_family-s.jpg?resize=1200,675″] The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/55243049199_e26ef1eb07_k.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — thinking that he shared on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which TDK Ventures co-hosted. It’s a theory he’s been working to prove since 2019, when he founded the corporate venture arm of the Japanese…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273585200.jpg?resize=1200,800″] When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday — canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport — people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea. Hunter Peterson, a voice actor…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2241691471.jpg?w=1024″] You’ve seen this comic before: An anthropomorphic dog sits smiling, surrounded by flames, and says, “This is fine.” It’s become one of the most durable memes of the past decade, and now AI startup Artisan seems to have incorporated it into an ad campaign — an ad for which KC Green, the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-104509077.jpg?resize=1200,800″] A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors. The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SF_WAYMO-FREEWAY_FRONT.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! We’re going to do a bit of a deep dive today, which may make this newsletter look a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_7411-1.jpg?resize=1200,900″] It was love at first sight. It felt like scouring the mall, dipping in and out of sprawling department stores in search of a specific, elusive item, only to finally find what you’re looking for. Only, I didn’t even know I was searching for something like the Xteink X3, because I never…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/54599380127_df4ede7c18_c.jpg?w=680″] StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026 Overview StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026 StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider VC content while creating meaningful connections with leading investors & entrepreneurs. Join us for an evening of intimate interviews with industry heavy hitters and impactful conversation. Waitlist Now Waitlist to get early access to these limited tickets! June…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2266014829.jpg?w=1024″] The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artificial intelligence. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that only performances “credited in the film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will be eligible for…