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MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. China’s digital yuan was seemingly born out of a desire to centralize a payment system dominated by the tech companies Alibaba and Tencent. According to…

Apple is developing its own payment processing technology and has big plans for its financial-services offerings.

Triller has long teased its ambitions to go public, and now, the short form video platform seems to on its way to an IPO. Triller filed an S-1 on Wednesday, seeking to directly list on the New York Stock Exchange. The TikTok competitor previously tried to go public via SPAC in a $5 billion merger […]

Nothing has always brushed off suggestions that it releases budget devices. The London-based hardware startup prefers to position itself as a lifestyle – or even fashion – brand, with design at the core of all it does. It’s a framing that has found the company embracing limited edition, in-person product drops – an uncommon approach […]

Lula, a startup which aims to be the ‘Stripe for insurance,’ has raised $35.5 million in a Series B funding round after experiencing a massive surge in customers. When TechCrunch reported on Lula’s $18 million Series A raise in July of 2021, the company was focused on building an insurance API that aimed to “eliminate […]

There is no question that this market is tough for tech startups. But even in tough markets, there are many survivors.

As technological advancements continue to revolutionize industries worldwide, the technology sector is anticipated to witness substantial growth in the foreseeable future. Given this backdrop, tech stocks Uber Technologies (UBER), Concentrix…

Russian state-sponsored hackers posed as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams to compromise dozens of global organizations, including government agencies. Microsoft security researchers said on Wednesday that the “highly targeted” social engineering campaign was carried out by a Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked by Microsoft as “Midnight Blizzard,” but more commonly known as APT29 or […]

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 hot is too hot for the human body? There’s no other way to say it: it’s hot. Temperatures this summer have yet again broken records, and around the world, climate change is…