March 2023

Wētā FX talks all things ‘The Last of Us,’ including the iconic bloater and giraffe scenes

March 17, 2023

“Nobody does creature work the way Wētā does,” Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” said in the official podcast for the video game adaptation series. If you’d had a chance to watch the bloater scene from episode five, then you most likely agree with him. It makes sense that HBO approached Wētā […]

Wētā FX talks all things ‘The Last of Us,’ including the iconic bloater and giraffe scenes by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: China’s version of ChatGPT, and protecting our brain data

March 17, 2023
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. Chinese tech giant Baidu just released its answer to ChatGPT Yesterday, Robin Li, Baidu’s cofounder and CEO, took the stage in Beijing to showcase the company’s new large language model, Ernie Bot.  He…

The 3 Best Industrial Stocks to Invest Money in Now

March 17, 2023
The increased investment in infrastructure development and government spending should drive the industrial sector’s growth. Given its solid long-term prospects, fundamentally strong industrial stocks Honeywell International (HON), Caterpillar (CAT), and…

SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity

March 17, 2023

One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries, SVB Financial has taken the next inevitable step: today it announced that it has formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of […]

SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

New Zealand bans TikTok from phones of parliamentarians

March 17, 2023

Days after the U.K. banned TikTok from government devices, New Zealand has joined the trend by prohibiting the short video app from parliamentary devices. The move comes amid growing security concerns about TikTok-owner ByteDance handing user data to the Chinese government. The country’s authorities cited cybersecurity reasons and said the app would be banned on […]

New Zealand bans TikTok from phones of parliamentarians by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here

March 17, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. Earlier this week, I had a fascinating call with Nita Farahany, a futurist and legal ethicist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Farahany has spent much of her career exploring the…