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I tried Servo

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

"Everything is chrome in the future" was a line said by SpongeBob SquarePants in an episode from 1999, and it turned out to be a prophecy about web browsers. Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser, and most of its competitors are based on the same Chromium code: Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, and Arc, just to name a few. The main exceptions are Safari and Firefox. It wasn't always this way. At the start of the millennium, Internet Explorer used its own Trident engine on Windo

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion

Gecko Robotics announced on Thursday that it raised $125 million in a Series D funding round, raising the AI and robotics company's valuation to $1.25 billion. The new round of funding means the Pittsburgh-based company has reached unicorn status, roughly twelve years after it was founded by Jake Loosararian. The company's previous round of funding, a $173 million Series C in December 2023, valued it at $633 million. To date, the company has raised $347 million from investors including USIT, X