November 21, 2024

The Download: AI replicas, and China’s climate role

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 can now create a replica of your personality Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your…

June 2023

What Are the 3 Best Tech Stocks Now?

June 23, 2023
Despite macroeconomic concerns, demand for technology products and services is expected to remain robust. Also, given the solid long-term prospects of the industry, fundamentally sound tech stocks Concentrix (CNXC), Indra…

3 Bank Stocks Investors Are After

June 23, 2023
Although there are some signs of stabilization, the stress in the U.S. banking sector remains high, posing a significant threat to economic growth. With investors still concerned about the viability…

Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund

June 23, 2023

Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and Patch under her belt. Today, she announced Planeteer Capital, focusing on startups that want to work on challenges related to climate change. The firm won’t comment how big the fund will be, but suggests it had a first close […]

Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

10 Money Hacks Keeping You Poor

June 23, 2023
It’s no secret that personal finance bloggers are known for offering many “money hacks.” In reality, though, most of these are pretty straightforward — such as saving more money or…

Crypto startup Pillow, backed by Accel and Quona, to discontinue all services

June 23, 2023

Singapore-headquartered Pillow plans to discontinue all its services in the coming weeks, it warned customers Friday, citing regulatory uncertainty that has claimed countless other crypto startups in recent quarters. Pillow allowed customers to invest in Bitcoin, stablecoins and altcoins, and promised returns of up to 18% — a figure that dropped to 14% as the […]

Crypto startup Pillow, backed by Accel and Quona, to discontinue all services by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The wild race to improve synthetic embryos

June 23, 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. This week, Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine is filling in for Jess Hamzelou. Something journalists and scientists have in common is that they hate getting scooped. And it’s especially annoying when the…

The chip patterning machines that will shape computing’s next act

June 23, 2023
When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it to be created—disciplines like optics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. It’s thanks to advances in these areas that we can…

Robotaxis are here. It’s time to decide what to do about them

June 23, 2023
In some San Francisco neighborhoods, at certain hours of the night, it seems as if one in 10 cars on the road has no driver behind the wheel.  These are not experimental test vehicles, and this is not a drill. Many of San Francisco’s ghostly driverless cars are commercial robotaxis, directly competing with taxis, Uber…