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Future Teslas will have batteries that double as structure, making them extra stiff while improving efficiency, safety and cost

Tesla has fundamentally redesigned the way that its battery packs integrate into their vehicles, turning them into structural elements of the car, rather than just fuel sources on their own. At Tesla&

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Airbus unveils hydrogen-powered zero emission plane

The three concept planes will be powered by hydrogen rather than jet fuel, and could be carrying passengers by 2035.

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It’s game on as Unity begins trading

Unity Software, which sells a game development toolkit primarily for mobile phone app developers, raised $1.3 billion in its initial public offering.The company, which

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Schools are closing their doors, but OpenDoor isn’t

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This week Natasha Mascarenhas, Danny Crichton and mys

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Digital Safari: How fast can ostriches run?

Editor's note:For an entire month starting August 17, CGTN will be bringing this year's Great Wildebeest Migration to your living room with our new series "Digital Safari." Let's jump onboard and get

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Amazon wins approval to trial deliveries via drone

The company claimed more than a year ago that its commercial drone delivery programme would start "within months".

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Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public

In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially.The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and

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Join Twilio’s Jeff Lawson for a live Q&A August 25 at 3:30 pm EDT/12:30 pm PDT

As we race toward Disrupt 2020, we’re keeping the Extra Crunch Live train rolling with a big entry next week as Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson joins us for a chat.Lawson is well-known in

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AMC will offer 15 cent tickets when it reopens 100+ US theaters on August 20

Like so many industries, the last five months have been absolutely devastating for movie theaters. As far as sheer volumes go, no one has been harder hit than the world’s largest theater chain. AMC h

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Previously extinct large blue butterfly flourishes after reintroduction

Globally endangered large blue butterflies trick ants into carrying them into their nests before eating the grubs as they develop.

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Red kite population soars after a 30-year conservation project

03:59 The red kite, with its distinctive russet-coloured feathers and forked tail, circles around in a clear blue sky on a late summer's afternoon, soaring effortlessly on thermals, as

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Tech It Out: What is Tianwen's scientific mission on Mars?

04:53 If everything goes as planned, the Tianwen-1 will be the first Mars mission in history to successfully study the red planet with an orbiter, lander and rover. Wha

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China unveils full-sized models of its Mars rover and lander

01:02 China is ready to launch its Tianwen-1 Mars probe in the coming days, which includes an orbiter, a lander and a rover. So what do they look like? The country unve

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U.K. allows outdoor theater and music events from July 11

Tourists watch actors perform at the house where William Shakespeare was born during celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Britain, April 23

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Equity Monday: Uber-Postmates is announced, three funding rounds, and narrative construction

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our week-starting primer in which we go over the

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China aims to phase out sale of live poultry at food markets

A worker inspects the chicken farm of an agricultural technology company in Cheng'an County, north China's Hebei Province, March 4, 2020. /Xinhua China on Friday vowed to gradually phase out t

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Festo’s latest biomimetic robots are a flying feathered bird and ball-bottomed helper arm

You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in