Month: February 2020

Win an Omron HeatTens pain-relieving machine in our competition

An Omron HeatTens can treat your aches and pains, relieving your muscles and joints from intense workouts. Want to win one? Just answer the question below. The Omron HeatTens is a great gadget for those suffering with low back pain, aching shoulders after a day in the office, or those…

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Rocket startup Astra emerges from stealth, aims to launch for as little as $1M per flight

There’s yet another new rocket launch startup throwing its hat in the ring – Astra, an Alameda-based company that’s actually been operating in stealth mode (though relatively openly, often referred to as ‘Stealth Space Company’) for the past three years developing and testing its launch vehicle. Astra revealed its business…

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Construction startup Scaled Robotics raises a €2M seed round

Industrial robots are expensive. But, then, so are construction mistakes. Being off by an inch here or there adds up quickly, and too often crews need to correctly costly errors. There’s a reason construction has become the next great target of the robotics and automation industries, with a number of…

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Oracle on track to beat AWS in number of data centres by end of the year

With the opening of its first data centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Monday, Oracle now has 21 Generation 2 Cloud regions across the world. A cloud region has two data centres. The US tech company has added one data centres in each of the cloud regions – Saudi Arabia…

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Equity Monday: Stock market woes, vertical SaaS and WeWork gets serious

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years don’t worry — we’re not changing what we’ve always done. (Here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton, in…

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Could these be the best Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus deals since launch? We think so

As enamoured as we were with Samsung’s Note 10 series when it launched, we were knocked straight back into reality as soon as we saw the price tag. But now, almost half a year on from its launch, Note 10 prices are falling. And out of all of the price…

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