December 24, 2025

Four bright spots in climate news in 2025

Climate news hasn’t been great in 2025. Global greenhouse-gas emissions hit record highs (again). This year is set to be either the second or third warmest on record. Climate-fueled disasters like wildfires in California and flooding in Indonesia and Pakistan devastated communities and caused billions in damage. In addition to these worrying indicators of our…

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Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design

February 7, 2023

A clutch of startups is trying to topple Adobe’s dominance in three-dimensional modeling and do more than Canva. A freshly funded player is PixCap, which is entering the fray with a no-code, web-based 3D design tool. Founded in 2020, Singapore-based PixCap just secured $2.8 million from a seed funding round. It was part of the seventh […]

Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation

February 7, 2023

A controversial move by Twitter-owner Elon Musk to end free access to its APIs by February 9 has attracted criticism from the European Union’s top diplomat who has warned it could threaten the ability of researchers to study disinformation at a critical time — with Russia aggressively weaponizing disinformation to try to provide cover for […]

EU’s top diplomat fires warning shot at Elon Musk over Twitter disinformation by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: generative AI for video, and detecting AI text

February 7, 2023
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. The original startup behind Stable Diffusion has launched a generative AI for video What’s happened: Runway, the generative AI startup that co-created last year’s breakout text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has released an AI…

2 Stocks to Buy as Inflation Fears Fade

February 7, 2023
Investor optimism has increased considerably in the past few weeks thanks to cooling inflation figures, the Fed’s downshift on monetary tightening, and fading recession fears. Moreover, a strong job report…

Frond is a witty cross between Discord and Facebook groups

February 7, 2023

If you’re tired of unwieldy conversations on Discord, or abandoned Facebook groups that no one uses anymore, Frond has an alternative. Launching today, Frond is a tool for building communities online. At the helm are Matt Blackshaw, founder of Sold, and Jan Senderek, who founded Loom; both companies were sold to Dropbox. On Frond, you […]

Frond is a witty cross between Discord and Facebook groups by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch