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Back to school: Our favorite student apps

August 17, 2023
Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the hunt for mobile apps that can help prepare them for the long school year. From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and […]

Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility

August 17, 2023
Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric vehicles. The onshoring of battery factories in the U.S. has boomed since the passage of […]

San Francisco presses CPUC to halt Waymo, Cruise robotaxi expansions

August 17, 2023
California regulators gave Waymo and Cruise the OK last week to scale up their robotaxi services in San Francisco, but now it seems the city itself won’t have it. On Wednesday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed motions with the California Public Utilities Commission to pause the firms’ plans to offer and charge for […]

ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform

August 17, 2023
ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital, Accel and Lightspeed. ProjectDiscovery began as a collaboration between four security engineers — Rishiraj Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Nizamul Rana and […]