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SUNNYVALE, Calif., and GATESHEAD, England, June 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Turntide Technologies , (“Turntide”), the company responsible for the Platform for Sustainable Operations™, powered by its patented Smart Motor System™, today announced the launch of Turntide Transport, a new division of the company focused on modernizing intelligent motor systems throughout the commercial transportation industry. Turntide is…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Jeff Bezos announced on Monday he will be flying into space onboard his aerospace company Blue Origin’s first crewed space flight that is scheduled to launch on July 20th, just two weeks after the billionaire is set to resign as Amazon’s chief executive. Jeff Bezos annouced he will…

The rush to back lidar companies continues as more automakers and robotaxi startups include the remote sensing method in their vehicles. Latest to the investment boom is Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar maker founded in 2014 with an office in Palo Alto. The company just raised over $300 million in a Series D funding round led…

Apple announced a handful of privacy-focused updates at its annual software developer conference on Monday. One called Private Relay particularly piques the interest of Chinese users living under the country’s censorship system, for it encrypts all browsing history so nobody can track or intercept the data. As my colleague Roman Dillet explains: When Private Relay…

SHANGHAI, June 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —  League of Legends Pro League  (LPL) and  Hyperice , the industry leader in recovery technology and pioneer of percussion, vibration, dynamic air compression and thermal technology, today announced a partnership that names Hyperice the league’s Official Recovery Technology Partner in 2021. The partnership kicks off on June 7 on…

SAN FRANCISCO, June 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Autodesk, Inc. (ADSK) – Get Report today confirmed that it has submitted a non-binding proposal to acquire all the outstanding shares of common stock of Altium Limited (ASX: ALU) for AUD$38.50, to be implemented by way of a scheme of arrangement. Altium is a global software company headquartered in…

Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to the first customers this month. Musk’s reason: Plaid is so good that another variant isn’t needed. “Model S goes to Plaid…

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Earlier today, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with one of three blank-check companies that have been formed to date by renowned entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus and a third partner in these deals, Michael Thompson, who long managed special situation funds.…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices…