Tuesday, May 5, 2026

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche mission to metal asteroid

Godspeed, Psyche. The large NASA spacecraft is now officially en route to a metal-rich asteroid (also named Psyche) after taking off on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket...

Founders, are events useful? | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, tweeted that...

African startups see their fundraising prospects dry up as capital availability falls yet again...

African startups’ fundraising trends have reverted to what we might call pre-COVID norms. In a nutshell: Startups on the continent raised less money in the third...

6 VCs explain how startups can capture and defend marketshare in the AI era

You cannot escape conversations about AI no matter how far or fast you run. Hyperbole abounds around what current AI tech will be able to do...

Amid breakup, Synapse, Evolve address allegations about how their relationship ended

Partnerships between organizations end all the time. Sometimes it’s amicable, and sometimes it’s complicated. In the instance of Synapse and Evolve, it was complicated. Synapse operates a...

Trezor launches two new devices to help onboard crypto newbies

Trezor, a hardware crypto wallet company, debuted two new products this week at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference — and we got to take a first look...

Ripcord, the Steve Wozniak-backed file scanning startup, is raising new cash

Ripcord, a startup developing robots that can automatically digitize paper records, is hoping to raise between $20 million to $25 million in a new funding round...

EV data startup Volteras wants to bring Tesla-level control to every vehicle and charger

Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping...

Singularity’s ONI earbuds deliver outstanding audio thanks to MEMS speaker tech

I have long flirted with the idea that I’m an audiophile, though I don’t typically spend thousands of dollars on either headphones or speakers, and I...

Shadow silent on data breach as hacked data appears genuine

A data breach at French cloud gaming provider Shadow may be worse than the company initially suggested, according to a sample of the stolen data seen...