May 2023

Google will disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024

May 18, 2023

Google’s Privacy Sandbox aims to replace third-party cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach, allowing users to manage their interests and grouping them into cohorts based on similar browsing patterns. That’s a major change for the online advertising industry, and after years of talking about it and releasing various experiments, it’s about to get real for […]

Google will disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024 by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: future space food, and EV battery swapping

May 18, 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. Future space food could be made from astronaut breath The future of space food could be as simple—and weird—as a protein shake made with astronaut breath or a burger made from fungus. For…

How to Cope With the Emotional Side of Retirement

May 18, 2023
Retirement—that stage of life when you can step away from work and spend time with family, friends, and pursuits, relying on our savings and retirement plans to finance the daily…

FTC says popular fertility tracking app Premom shared sensitive data with Chinese analytics firms

May 18, 2023

A popular fertility tracking app shared users’ sensitive health information with third-party advertisers without their consent, a new Federal Trade Commission complaint alleges. The FTC’s investigation into Premom, a fertility tracking app developed by Easy Healthcare that allows users to track ovulation, periods, and other health information, found that the company had shared identifiable health […]

FTC says popular fertility tracking app Premom shared sensitive data with Chinese analytics firms by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Percent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit

May 18, 2023

In 2018, Nelson Chu founded Percent with the goal of bringing investors, borrowers and underwriters together to modernize private credit. Seeing an opportunity to tackle the lack of risk management in the market, Chu created a marketplace that enables investors — specifically accredited retail investors — to participate in private credit. It’s been a success […]

Percent lands $30M investment to connect investors with private credit by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch