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Counter-drone director talks testing in Saudi Arabia and regional expansion (Defense News)

Agnes Helou The Saudi government knows from experience the threat posed by drones. The September 2019 attack on the country’s Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities by drone...

Poll: More say US defense isn’t strong enough, but most are content (Defense News)

Joe Gould As progressives work to cut President Joe Biden’s flat defense budget request for 2022 ― and Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., push to...

US State Department clears Australia to buy MQ-9B drones (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna The U.S. State Department on Friday approved a $1.6 billion foreign military sale of MQ-9B drones for Australia. https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2021/04/26/state-department-clears-australia-to-buy-mq-9b-drones/

Wunder Mobility’s new lending business helps micromobility startups finance fleets (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan Wunder Mobility built its business selling software to shared scooter, e-bike and even short-term car rental startups. Now, it’s banking on a new...

Tesla sees bitcoin as important financial tool to access cash quickly (TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec Tesla’s relationship with bitcoin is not a dalliance, according to the comments made by the company’s CFO and dubbed “master of coin”...

Tesla wants to make every home a distributed power plant (TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to turn every home into a distributed power plant that would generate, store and even deliver energy back...

Blockchain startup S!NG wants creators to lean on NFTs to protect their intellectual property (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney After a years-long crypto winter, it been the spring of NFTs, but as digital art prices sober up after an explosion in sales,...

The next tech hearing targets social media algorithms — and YouTube, for once (TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker Another week, another big tech hearing in Congress. With a flurry of antitrust reform bills on the way, Democratic lawmakers are again bringing in...

Tesla grows 74% in the first quarter, besting expectations as its shares ease after hours (TechCrunch)

Alex Wilhelm Today after the bell, American electric car company Tesla reported its Q1 2021 financial performance. The company lost modest ground on the stock market...

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