This is the personal website of Devin Coldewey, Seattle-based writer and photographer. He can be reached at devin at techcrunch dot com (direct pitches and appearance requests here, please) or devin at this domain (for personal correspondence; pitches will be deleted with prejudice).
Devin currently writes for TechCrunch, covering many topics in technology, science, and space; he has written for MSNBC.com, NBC News, DPReview, and others; he has also appeared on radio, television, and in print.
Devin’s latest stories are below. More can be found at his author page at TechCrunch.
- XtalPi lands massive $319M SoftBank-led round C to continue its high-tech drug discoveryXtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. It joins numerous others with 9-figure rounds in what is clearly…
- Deep Science: Robot perception, acoustic monitoring, using ML to detect arthritisResearch papers come out far too rapidly for anyone to read them all, especially in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect the most relevant…
- NASA commissions report to show its economic impact: $64B and 312K jobsPerhaps anticipating budget pushback from the federal government, NASA has released its first-ever agency-wide economic report, documenting the agency’s impact on the nation’s jobs and cash flow. Everyone knew NASA was impactful, but now we know exactly how impactful it…
- Curly the curling robot throws stones like a proRobots have shown themselves to excel at any number of sports and activities, though they do best when they have a single task. Fortunately some sports, such as curling, consist mostly of one task, and Korean researchers have made a…
- Teachers deserve two screens, and Two Screens for Teachers aims to get them just thatThe pandemic has caused K-12 classrooms, chaotic at the best of times, to descend into Zoom call chaos. What’s more, thousands of teachers who must wrangle this new, weird system are doing so with just a single monitor, making it…