January 2024

The Download: testing wastewater for measles, and the cost of nature

January 26, 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. How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the MMR vaccine,…

UK launches antitrust probe into planned $19B Vodafone / Three merger

January 26, 2024

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK. The news hardly comes as a surprise, given that the £15 billion ($19 billion) joint venture would reduce the U.K.’s main infrastructure-owning mobile networks from four to three (the other two being EE and […]

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How wastewater could offer an early warning system for measles

January 26, 2024
Measles is back with a vengeance. In the UK, where only 85% of school-age children have received two doses of the MMR vaccine, as many as 300 people have contracted the disease since October. And in the US, an outbreak has infected nine people in Philadelphia since last month. One case has been reported in…

Ola founder’s AI startup becomes unicorn in $50M funding

January 26, 2024

Krutrim, an AI startup founded by Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal, said it has raised a funding round that values it at $1 billion. The startup, founded last year, is the fastest to become a unicorn in India, it claimed in a press statement. It’s also the first Indian AI startup to become a unicorn, it […]

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Delivery startup Veho makes corporate job cuts

January 26, 2024

The company said the layoffs are part of a “reorganization of our corporate team to improve efficiencies and accelerate our path to profitability.”

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