January 2024

Downpayments wants to offer real estate investors interest-free financing

January 10, 2024

Downpayments, a real estate fintech startup, is emerging from stealth today with the mission of helping investors purchase new properties with interest-free down payments. It’s a lofty claim. The Miami-based startup, which spun out of Australian company Futurerents last October, says it’s able to give investors a way to leverage their existing equity toward making […]

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YouTube is making it easier to find accurate information about first aid and emergency care

January 10, 2024

YouTube announced today that it’s making it easier to find accurate life-saving information about basic first aid and emergency care with the launch of its new First Aid Information Shelves. The new shelves will be pinned to the top of search results and will feature videos from credible health organizations like Mass General Brigham. The […]

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Terraform fork OpenTofu is now ready for prime time

January 10, 2024

OpenTofu, the open source Terraform fork, has hit general availability (GA) some four months after launch. The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software was laid bare on numerous occasions last year, perhaps most notably when HashiCorp switched popular “infrastructure as code” tool Terraform from a “copyleft” open source license to the source-available Business […]

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Fujitsu, facing heat over UK Post Office scandal, continues to rake in billions from government deals

January 10, 2024

Japanese tech giant Fujitsu is facing growing pressure from U.K. political quarters over its role in a scandal that saw hundreds of post office owners prosecuted for accounting discrepancies. But as Fujitsu has emerged as a leading protagonist in a saga that has endured for nearly a quarter-of-a-century, the government has continued to give the […]

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Tesla starts selling refreshed Model 3 in the U.S.

January 10, 2024

Tesla is now selling the revamped version of its Model 3 sedan in the United States, just four months after it debuted in China and Europe. It’s the first real overhaul of the electric vehicle that brought Tesla to a true mass market. And it comes at a time when the company has been aggressive […]

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The Download: weight-loss drugs, and the future of offshore wind

January 10, 2024
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. Weight-loss drugs: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 One-third of US adults have obesity, a condition that makes them more susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. However, there’s huge hope that anti-obesity drugs—including Wegovy…