Welcome to the first episode of TheTechCrunch Podcast where you’ll hear everything you need to know about the week’s top stories in tech from the people who wrote them. This week our host, Managing Editor Darrell Etherington, talks with Taylor Hatmaker about the congressional hearing about UFOs in which pentagon experts say definitively UFOs are real and that sightings reports are way up. And Kirsten Korosec joins us to talk about all the news that came out of the TC Sessions: Mobility. Plus a rundown of the week’s top news on TechCrunch. 

Articles from the episode:

• At the first UFO hearing in 50 years, the Pentagon says unexplained reports are way up
• Top three takeaways from Nuro’s session at TC Sessions: Mobility
• Arrival unveils prototype of dedicated ride-hail vehicle at TC Sessions: Mobility
• Luminar’s Austin Russell: ‘We probably shouldn’t have existed’ but lidar will drive next-gen safety anyway

Other news from the week:

• Buffalo shooter invited others to his private Discord ‘diary’ 30 minutes before attack
• NY AG is investigating Twitch, Discord and 4chan for their role in the Buffalo mass shooting
• Twitter CEO and Elon Musk clash over bot-battling metrics
• Musk says Twitter deal is dead unless CEO can prove spam stats
• Three senior Twitter employees leave amid potential Musk takeover
• Watch Boeing’s make it or break it Starliner launch today
• YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown