March 2023

These aircraft could change how we fly

March 16, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and developed a mild obsession with flying cars—or the version of them that’s hot right now in Silicon Valley, at least.  Some…

The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green

March 16, 2023

The World Economic Forum says that so-called ‘Scope 3 emissions,’ – or CO2 in supply chains  – can make up as much as 90% of a company’s carbon footprint and worldwide more than half of all emissions can be traced back to only a handful of supply chains. Tracking and reducing these emissions are easier […]

The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

MLOps platform Seldon raises £20M Series B to improve the productions of AI models

March 16, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT has fuelled growth in the public awareness of AI, as well as the growing discourse around AI ethics. How should AI be used? What are its implications for society, not just business? The inherent bias within AI applications — remember, it’s not just how the algorithm is built and by whom, it’s […]

MLOps platform Seldon raises £20M Series B to improve the productions of AI models by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

SVB collapse forces African startups to rethink their banking options

March 16, 2023

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week sent ripples in startup ecosystems around the world, and it is emerging that millions of dollars held by African startups and venture capital funds at the bank were at stake, until the U.S. Federal Reserve acted to save the day. Founders in Africa are now forced […]

SVB collapse forces African startups to rethink their banking options by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

IT-as-a-Service startup Deeploi raises €3M

March 16, 2023

Deeploi, a Germany-based startup that is building an IT-as-a-Service platform, today announced that it has raised a €3 million seed funding round led by Berlin’s Cherry Ventures, with participation from a group of angels that includes the founders of Taktile, Moss, Vay and sennder. The company was founded by Julian Luebke and Philipp Hoffmann. Luebke […]

IT-as-a-Service startup Deeploi raises €3M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The FTC finalizes Epic’s $245 million settlement over sketchy Fortnite purchases

March 16, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission slammed Epic Games with $245 million in fines this week, ordering the Fortnite developer to compensate consumers who made unwitting purchases in its digital store. The settlement, first announced back in December, is now finalized. “Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the […]

The FTC finalizes Epic’s $245 million settlement over sketchy Fortnite purchases by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch