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3 Hot Restaurant Picks for Your 2024 Radar

February 12, 2024
The restaurant industry is poised to thrive this year, owing to easing inflation, a considerable increase in fast-casual preferences, and advanced technology. Given this backdrop, quality restaurant stocks Compass Group…

This chart shows why heat pumps are still hot in the US

February 12, 2024
Heat pumps are still a hot technology, though sales in the US, one of the world’s largest markets, fell in 2023. Even with the drop, the appliances beat out gas furnaces for the second year in a row and saw their overall market share increase compared to furnaces, sales of which also fell last year.…

Deal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startups

February 10, 2024

Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has turned into Biofire, a firearms […]

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The Download: how to improve pulse oximeters, and OpenAI’s chip plans

February 9, 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. Why engineers are working to build better pulse oximeters Visit any health-care facility, and one of the first things they’ll do is clip a pulse oximeter to your finger. These devices, which track…

Why Investors Are Flocking to These 2 Medical Stocks

February 9, 2024
Given the growing demand for healthcare facilities, rapid integration of digital technology, and transformative biotechnology breakthroughs, the medical industry is poised for continued growth and profitability this year and beyond….

Why engineers are working to build better pulse oximeters

February 9, 2024
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. Visit any health-care facility, and one of the first things they’ll do is clip a pulse oximeter to your finger. These devices, which track heart rate…

Here are the fintech startups that could go public in 2024

February 9, 2024

Could 2024 be the year for fintech IPOs? Quite possibly, according to F-Prime Capital’s State of Fintech 2024 report. F-Prime — a VC firm with over $4.5 billion in assets under management that tracks the performance of emerging, publicly traded and privately held financial technology companies — naturally remains bullish on the fintech space, noting that: […]

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AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth

February 8, 2024

It appears emerging price points for AI-powered software products will boost the total addressable market (TAM) for technology products, and help reaccelerate growth at tech companies big and small.

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The Download: Google’s Gemini plans, and virtual power plants

February 8, 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. Google’s Gemini is now in everything. Here’s how you can try it out. The news: In the biggest mass-market AI launch yet, Google is rolling out Gemini, its family of large language models,…