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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. Police got called to an overcrowded presentation on “rejuvenation” technology It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that’s what happened…

In the cavernous grand ballroom of the Seattle Convention Center, Sarah Kane stood in front of an oversize computer monitor, methodically reconstructing the life history of the Milky Way. Waving her shock of long white hair as she talked (“I’m easy to spot from a distance,” she joked), she outlined the “Hunt for Galactic Fossils,”…

This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. It was a big week in tech policy in Europe with the European Parliament’s vote to approve its draft rules for the AI Act on the same…

Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment mandate targeting early-stage startups in Africa that are focused on improving the wellbeing of people below 30 years in low-and-middle-income countries. The evergreen fund will back pre-seed to Series A startups including those that advance health services, […]

Seedstars, Fondation Botnar launch new fund to back African startups focused on youth wellbeing by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

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Mercedes jumps into the ChatGPT fray and Toyota plays catch-up by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

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You.com looks to innovation to chip away at Google’s search dominance by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that is what occurred on Friday at the Boston Convention Center during a round of scientific presentations featuring Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a specialist in “rejuvenation” technology at a secretive, wealthy, anti-aging startup called Altos…

Meta will soon officially permit users as young as 10 to use its Meta Quest 2 and 3 VR headsets — if their parents say it’s okay, anyway. In a blog post, the tech giant says that there’s “a vast array of engaging and educational apps, games, and more” for the kiddos, even if the […]

Meta says it’s totally fine for 10 year olds to wear its VR headset, probably by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

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