A Guide to Penny Stocks — From a Day Trader’s Perspective
There’s professional gambling and there is professional day trading. How do penny stocks fit into the mix?
Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers. We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden…
December 2023
Top robotics names discuss humanoids, generative AI and more
Last month, I took an extended break. In a bid to keep my robotics newsletter Actuator (subscribe here) up and running, however, I reached out to some of the biggest names in the industry. I asked people from CMU, UC Berkeley, Meta, NVIDIA, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute the same six questions, covering […]
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EU’s provisional deal on gig worker rights fails to get enough backing from Member States
Not so fast on that Christmas present for precarious gig workers in the EU: A political deal announced mid month, which aims to bolster platform workers rights across the European Union by establishing a legal presumption of employment, does not have the necessary qualified majority backing among Member States, it emerged today. In an brief […]
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Arduino exploring India manufacturing to limit counterfeit sales
Arduino is considering manufacturing in India. The startup, best known for its open-source microcontroller boards, hopes to restrict the rise of counterfeit boards and cater to the growing demand from India’s youth population. The Italian firm is currently exploring partnerships with electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies in the South Asian nation to begin its local […]
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Want to Find — and Keep — More Employees in 2024? Focus on Sustainability. Here’s How.
Finding and retaining employees remains a key concern for most small businesses. Joining sustainable organizations is one (surprising) way you can more easily attract and keep workers.
Micron share price to benefit from multi-year memory upcycle
Micron returns to growth and issues a solid outlook for 2024 supported by demand for AI-centric memory and end-market normalization.
It’s critical to regulate AI within the multi-trillion-dollar API economy
Various kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and LLMs) that completely changed the risk landscape.
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Fintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, we’re here to look back at the biggest fintech stories of the year. Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion felt like a fintech story in that a number of startups (Brex, Arc and Mercury, for example) in the space leapt to fill the hole left by its collapse. But it truly […]
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Pitch Deck Teardown: HomeCooks’ $3.2M seed deck
Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. What did it do right in its crowdfunding campaign slides?
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Your Brand Will Flop If It Doesn’t Stand Out. Try the Contrarian Design Strategy That Worked for These 6 Founders.
From chocolate bars to pet care, you may recognize these brands when you see them — and their founders made deliberate decisions to make that happen. Here, they explain how they zeroed in on aesthetics that stand out.