TechCrunch+ Roundup: Creator economy VC survey, B2C fintech growth strategy, web3 demo day
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These technologies could help put a stop to animal testing
Earlier this week, the UK’s science minister announced an ambitious plan: to phase out animal testing. Testing potential skin irritants on animals will be stopped by the end of next year, according to a strategy released on Tuesday. By 2027, researchers are “expected to end” tests of the strength of Botox on mice. And drug tests…
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US cyber board to investigate Microsoft hack of government emails
A U.S. review board tasked with investigating major cybersecurity incidents said it will begin looking at the recent intrusion of U.S. government email systems provided by Microsoft, whose handling of the incident drew ire and scrutiny from federal lawmakers and the wider security community. The Cyber Security Review Board, or CSRB, said Friday that its […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: ANYbotics’ $50M Series B deck
Growth rounds usually get a traction-forward pitch, but there are many ways to weave that narrative. Let’s see how ANYbotics does it.
11xAI closes $2 million pre-seed to create autonomous AI workers
The company builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees.
Why is it so hard to create new types of pain relievers?
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. This week I’ve been thinking about America’s addiction to opioids. The statistics are staggering. Since 2010, opioid overdose deaths have nearly quadrupled. More than 80,000 people…
Next slide, please: A brief history of the corporate presentation
It’s 1948, and it isn’t a great year for alcohol. Prohibition has come and gone, and booze is a buyer’s market again. That much is obvious from Seagram’s annual sales meeting, an 11-city traveling extravaganza designed to drum up nationwide sales. No expense has been spared: there’s the two-hour, professionally acted stage play about the…
The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal
The US Department of Energy announced today that it’s providing $1.2 billion to develop regional hubs that can draw down and store away at least one million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, as a means of combating climate change. The move represents a major step forward in the effort to establish a market…
Hidden forces and sliding screens trick the senses to make VR feel more real
The next big thing in VR might not be higher resolution or more immersive sound, but an experience augmented by physical sensations or moving parts that fool your senses into mistaking virtual for reality. Researchers at SIGGRAPH, from Meta to international student groups, flaunted their latest attempts to make VR and AR more convincing. The […]
Electric aircraft makers Wisk and Archer end bitter legal dispute, agree to work together
Electric aircraft rivals Wisk and Archer Aviation have settled their trade secret legal dispute more than two years after the lawsuit was originally filed. In a somewhat surprise twist — given how bitterly the legal battle had become — the two companies have agreed to collaborate. Archer also agreed to make Wisk its exclusive provider […]
7 VCs explain why the creator economy still has legs
To learn more about the state of the creator economy industry and how investors are thinking, we surveyed seven VCs about where the industry is headed.