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Apple’s market cap hit $3 trillion on Friday, as the company’s shares rose around 1% to a new high and passed the $190.73 price required in order to reach the milestone. The tech giant first reached this milestone back in January 2022, before closing the session just below that mark. Apple is the only company […]

Apple’s market cap hits $3 trillion once again by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

After a long M&A drought, we saw a lot of activity this week as companies looking for AI and data startups went shopping.

M&A is back and the enterprise is hot by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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 gene-edited microbiomes could improve our health Microbes are everywhere, and the ones in our bodies appear to be incredibly important for our health. They’ve developed intricate relationships with other living systems, feeding…

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. Microbes have been on my mind this week. These tiny organisms are everywhere, and the ones that reside in our bodies appear to be incredibly…

The number of workplaces offering fertility and reproductive healthcare benefits are on the rise. Doing so can help companies become more competitive employers and bolster diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, for example by attracting more women and LGBTQ+ people. Based in London, Fertifa wants to enable more companies in Europe to offer reproductive benefits to […]

Fertifa enables companies to offer fertility and reproductive health benefits by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Protecting training data and models must be the top priority; it’s no longer sufficient to encrypt fields in databases or rows on a form.

How confidential computing could secure generative AI adoption by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. As if the pessimism around crypto weren’t enough, the industry is facing yet another quarter of hackers and scammers looking to make a quick buck.

Say goodbye to Q2 and the crypto hacks, scams and rug pulls that came with it by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Sometimes baseball feels like a game of inches. Clubs often compete for seemingly small advantages to get a leg up. Over the last couple of decades, that’s meant investments in both advanced analytics and cutting-edge technologies. Sometimes both at the same time. While baseball fans themselves can be highly critical of changes to the 180+-year-old […]

Major League Baseball embraces 3D motion tracking to scout players by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch