The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO This weeks banishment of …
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Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other “technology programs” and will continue to invest heavily in the futuristic tech even though it expects to rely on human drivers for …
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There may be a copy of Wikipedia somewhere on the moon. Here’s how to help find it.
If you’ve ever worried that humanity will ever wipe itself out so completely that there’ll be no record of our civilization for aliens to discover, you can now rest (somewhat) easy. Even if we blow everything on Earth to smithereens tomorrow, there will lik…
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Tesla sells European emissions law lifeline to Fiat Chrysler
Enlarge/ The ultimate compliance car? Sergio Marchionne, the late CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, had said that the company lost either $14,000, or $20,000, on every Fiat 500e, depending who you believe. 4 with 4 posters participating Over the weekend, th…
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David Einhorn’s Greenlight is up 11% thanks to Tesla where ‘the wheels are falling off’ (TSLA)
After a devastating 2018, David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted first quarter returns of 11%, according to an investor letter seen by Business Insider. The letter highlights eight positions — five long positions and three shorts — that are driving the …
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