January 7, 2025

The Download: how AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy in the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it We all know what it means, colloquially, to google something. You pop a few words in a search box and in return…

February 2023

Google, complying with regulatory order, supports third-party billing in India

February 23, 2023

Google has started to support a third-party billing system for Google Play Store purchases in India as the Android-maker begins complying with the local regulatory directions in the key overseas market. Google said in a support page Thursday that it is offering “all developers” serving users in India the option to use an alternative billing […]

Google, complying with regulatory order, supports third-party billing in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

1 Pharma Stock Poised for a Promising 2023

February 23, 2023
Following a year of solid growth in 2022, leading pharma company AstraZeneca’s (AZN) robust pipeline and recent launches look promising. Moreover, its strong fundamentals should enable the stock to deliver…

Chain Reaction raises $70M, emerges from stealth to launch chips designed to compute encrypted data

February 23, 2023

As the networking industry explores homomorphic encryption, blockchains and other cryptographic techniques to take data protection and complex computing to the next level, one big roadblock to many of these working effectively and at scale has been the compute power required to run them. Today, one of the startups that believes it can address that […]

Chain Reaction raises $70M, emerges from stealth to launch chips designed to compute encrypted data by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

When hydrogen will help climate change—and when it won’t. 

February 23, 2023
Have you ever heard of the hydrogen rainbow? While hydrogen gas is colorless, the industry sometimes uses colors as shorthand to describe which of the many possible processes was used to make a particular batch. There’s gray, green, and blue hydrogen, along with more vibrant tones like pink—a whole rainbow (kind of). Hydrogen is often…

Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets

February 23, 2023

The Linux Foundation‘s European off-shoot has formally launched the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort designed to support interoperability between digital wallets through open source software. The launch comes some five months after the Linux Foundation first revealed plans to set up the OWF, shortly before it spun out a region-specific entity called the […]

Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung unveils its own solution for satellite-based smartphone communication

February 23, 2023

Earlier today, Samsung announced its own solution for satellite communication on smartphones. The company unveiled the 5G non-terrestrial networks (NTN) modem so phones can communicate with satellites in locations where there is no cellular network connectivity. The company said that it aims to integrate this tech into its own Exynos chip, which is used in […]

Samsung unveils its own solution for satellite-based smartphone communication by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

CyberSmart raises $15M for an all-in-one cybersecurity and insurance solution targeting SMBs

February 23, 2023

Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses, and today a startup building solutions for smaller enterprises is announcing a funding round to meet that demand. CyberSmart — a UK startup that has built an all-in-one platform providing cybersecurity technology for small and medium businesses, and cyber insurance if things go wrong […]

CyberSmart raises $15M for an all-in-one cybersecurity and insurance solution targeting SMBs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Popular Android apps’ Play Store privacy labels don’t match up to their claims, Mozilla says

February 23, 2023

Google added privacy nutrition labels for apps on the Play Store last April, bringing more transparency to its Android marketplace in response to Apple introducing similar stringent rules. These labels allow developers to disclose and explain the variety of data their apps collect from users, giving the consumers a better understanding of what they are signing […]

Popular Android apps’ Play Store privacy labels don’t match up to their claims, Mozilla says by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Spoke AI is using generative AI to pull signal from workplace noise

February 23, 2023

As generative AI’s fast-unfolding power to supercharge content-creation amps up concern over what automation might mean for free access to quality information online, Berlin-based startup Spoke AI is gearing up to apply generative AI in a more bounded (but still noisy) context: Internally, within businesses — pitching information workers on tools to help them stay […]

Spoke AI is using generative AI to pull signal from workplace noise by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch