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Lectric eBikes, a Phoenix, Arizona-based company known for its practical and affordable XP series electric bikes, has launched three new brands so far this year — a Juiced Bikes relaunch, a new Juiced Powersports brand, and now a premium adventure brand called Monarc — an expansion strategy that runs counter to the wave of bankruptcies that have plagued the sector. Together, Lectric has put about $10 million toward these initiatives, CEO Levi Conlow told TechCrunch. “Others might be pulling back, or raising money, we’re actually deploying and investing into initiatives like this,” he said. “I actually don’t think the market…

Snow, 78, revealed that he was diagnosed in 2023 and will share his experience of living with the disease in an upcoming documentary, Jon Snow: A Last Big Story. In a recent interview, he admitted he still sometimes questions whether the diagnosis is correct. He said: “I mean sometimes I doubt whether I’ve really got it. “I don’t feel disabled in any way.” The journalist has previously spoken about his mother’s experience with Alzheimer’s before her death. Jon Snow’s decision to talk about Alzheimer’s ‘real act of courage’ Alzheimer’s involves the gradual decline of brain function, impacting memory, thinking, and…

AI search has moved faster than most SEO strategies. Rankings are holding across the board, clicks are falling and the businesses that adapted earliest are starting to pull ahead – not because they found a shortcut, but because they stopped treating the problem as a rankings problem and started treating it as a citations and authority problem. The question now is what that actually looks like in practice. The answer depends significantly on what kind of business you are. According to BrightLocal’s 2026 Local Consumer Review Survey, 45% of consumers are now using generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT or…

Hidden among the architectural landmarks of General Motors’ sprawling Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a new cornerstone of the automaker’s $900 million bet on its electric future. The nondescript 500,000-square-foot pair of off-white boxes, which houses GM’s new Battery Cell Development Center, might not look like much. But locked inside is the key to GM’s plan to slash the cost of its EVs by nearly 10%.  At a time when some car companies are pulling back on EVs, GM’s new Battery Cell Development Center is part of a reboot. And it’s one that GM told TechCrunch will allow it…

Supabase, the open source database of choice for the vibe coding world, has raised a $500 million Series F at a $10 billion pre-money valuation, the company announced Friday. That’s about $10.5 billion after the investment. The newly minted decacorn has been doubling its valuation every few months for a couple of years now, as vibe coding tools have driven its usage to astounding growth: over 600% in the past year, with over 60% of new databases launched “by some sort of AI tool,” CEO and co-founder Paul Copplestone wrote in a blog post announcing the raise. The startup also…

Bitcoin (BTC) extended losses after Friday’s Wall Street open as traders prepared for a retest of $60,000.Key points:Bitcoin begins a battle to protect $60,000 support as sell-side pressure refuses to cool.Analysis sees early signals that “seller exhaustion” is here.US nonfarm payrolls data produce a stronger-than-expected picture of US labor market conditions.Bitcoin battles for $60,000 supportData from TradingView showed daily BTC price downside approaching 5% as sellers stayed in the driving seat.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView“Rapidly approaching its February low at $60K. Now in its 6th red daily candle and down more than the entire April/May rally,” trader Daan Crypto Trades…

Many people treat Palma as a stopover. They land, spend a night somewhere near the old town, do the cathedral, and leave for wherever they actually booked the trip around the island. Having now watched this happen many times, Privadia, which books private villas for guests in Mallorca, and has done so for years, would gently suggest that’s the wrong approach. The city itself is worth your time, and the best way to experience it is from a base outside it, coming in for the day rather than sleeping inside the noise. The food scene is genuinely serious. The architecture…

Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back 4-5x more expensive. Even though per-token prices have fallen, the push for more AI adoption and increasingly autonomous agents have driven token consumption higher and higher. Companies that gorged themselves in early 2025 on all-you-can-eat subscriptions are now scrambling to understand where their money is going, pull back spending, and figure out whether…

For decades, ultrafast lasers have been among the most powerful tools in modern optics. Their pulses last just a few hundred femtoseconds, or quadrillionths of a second, enabling technologies ranging from precision manufacturing and eye surgery to optical frequency combs, the Nobel Prize-winning innovation that powers the world’s most accurate optical atomic clocks. Despite their importance, these lasers have largely remained large, costly systems that occupy entire optical tables. Now, researchers led by Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg at EPFL have achieved a breakthrough that could dramatically shrink the technology. Writing in Nature, the team reports the first integrated ultrafast laser…

NASA has told five astronauts aboard the International Space Station to shelter in a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while their Russian counterparts try to repair a leaking service module. NASA spokesperson Bethany Stevens wrote in an X post on Friday that Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, had discovered new leaks in its service module, and decided to perform an “extensive repair operation.” “Out of an abundance of caution, NASA has directed all four of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft while the repair is underway,” she…