A former idol recently showed off his impressive physical transformation! In 2015, the boy group M.Crown debuted under Star Pro Entertainment. Unfortunately, like many groups under smaller companies, they went on to disband quickly, with multiple members, including Jaehyeok, leaving just before. Jaehyeok Jaehyeok would re-debut in the boy group 14U in 2017, under the […]
YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more
The second half of Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort presented on Thursday, once again bringing dozens and dozens of new startups before a chunk of the venture investing community. As we did on Wednesday, a number of the TechCrunch crew watched the entire run of presentations, picking out a handful of favorites to highlight. Enjoy […]
Footage from 2020 shows Astra rocket exploding during prelaunch testing
Footage obtained by TechCrunch shows the catastrophic ending that Astra’s Rocket 3.0 suffered during prelaunch testing in March 2020. The explosion, which occurred at Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex, was simply reported as an “anomaly” at the time, an industry term for pretty much any issue that deviates from the expected outcome. “I can confirm we […]
MIT tool shows climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080
There are a lot of ways to describe what’s happening to the Earth’s climate: Global warming. Climate change. Climate crisis. Global weirding. They all try to capture in different ways the phenomena caused by our world’s weather systems gone awry. Yet despite a thesaurus-entry’s worth of options, it’s still a remarkably difficult concept to make […]
Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about […]