November 22, 2024

Who should get a uterus transplant? Experts aren’t sure.

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Earlier this year, a boy in Sweden celebrated his 10th birthday. Reproductive scientists and doctors marked the occasion too. This little boy’s birth had been special. He was…

April 2024

TechCrunch Minute: New Atlas robot stuns experts in first reveal from Boston Dynamics

April 17, 2024

This week Boston Dynamics retired its well-known Atlas robot that was powered by hydraulics. Then today it unveiled its new Atlas robot, which is powered by electricity. The change might not seem like much, but TechCrunch’s Brian Heater told the TechCrunch Minute that the now-deprecated hydraulics system was out of date. It’s not hard to […]

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Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries

April 17, 2024

The new “Answer with AI” feature returns neatly formatted answers for questions like “People who walked on the moon,” “List of all actors who played Batman” or “How do descale Nespresso pixie.”

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ByteDance gets 24 hours to show EU a DSA risk assessment for TikTok Lite

April 17, 2024

TikTok owner ByteDance is facing fresh questions about its compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework that puts a legal obligation on larger platforms to mitigate systemic risks in areas like youth mental health. The EU’s latest concerns about TikTok’s DSA compliance center on the launch […]

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Geopolitical conflicts impact on global economy

April 17, 2024
The world of geopolitics is a complex and intricate web where every action can trigger a ripple effect that reverberates globally. This past weekend, we saw this principle in action…

NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud native environments

April 17, 2024

NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from PortWorx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit.  When they went looking for their next startup challenge last year, they saw an opportunity to combine their cloud native knowledge, especially around IT […]

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Andreessen Horowitz’s $7.2B new funds for a “new era”

April 17, 2024

What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost $11 billion and take ages. So, the U.S. space agency is throwing the doors open to get more input, and that means that startups are looking at an opportunity that […]

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