February 7, 2025

How the tiny microbes in your mouth could be putting your health at risk

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 working on a piece about teeth. Well, sort of teeth. Specifically, lab-grown bioengineered teeth. Researchers have created these teeth with a mixture of human…

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Proton launches family subscription plan for privacy app suite starting at $20 per month

May 23, 2023

Privacy-centric software maker Proton has launched a new family plan starting at $19.99 (€19.99) per month, giving up to six family members access to its entire application suite. The move comes as the Swiss company looks to bolster its paying subscriber base and lock more people into its growing ecosystem of products. Founded in 2014, […]

Proton launches family subscription plan for privacy app suite starting at $20 per month by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Waymo’s self-driving cars will be available on Uber’s app, starting in Phoenix

May 23, 2023

Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving unit, has agreed to a multi-year strategic partnership with Uber that will see some of Waymo’s autonomous vehicle technology join Uber’s platform. The collaboration comes a few weeks after Waymo’s chief product officer Saswat Panigrahi said the company aims to increase ridership tenfold by next summer. By partnering with an existing ride-hail […]

Waymo’s self-driving cars will be available on Uber’s app, starting in Phoenix by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Suddenly, everyone wants to talk about how to regulate AI

May 23, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It feels as though a switch has turned on in AI policy. For years, US legislators and American tech companies were reluctant to introduce—if not outright against—strict technology regulation. Now both have…

Max makes its debut in the U.S. to give subscribers 35K hours of content

May 23, 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) launched Max to U.S. subscribers on Tuesday, giving them access to 35,000 hours of content—more than double the amount that HBO Max offered. Beginning today, a large portion of HBO Max subscribers will be automatically upgraded to Max, whereas other customers will have to download the new streaming app manually. All […]

Max makes its debut in the U.S. to give subscribers 35K hours of content by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Food delivery by drone is just part of daily life in Shenzhen

May 23, 2023
My iced tea arrived from the sky. In a buzzy urban area in Shenzhen, China, sandwiched between several skyscrapers, I watched as a yellow-and-black drone descended onto a pickup kiosk by the street. The top of the vending-machine-size kiosk opened up for the drone to land, and a white cardboard box containing my drink was…

Modular app-building platform Builder.ai raises $250 million Series D funding

May 23, 2023

It was only recently that we reported Buildier.ai had signed a strategic collaboration with and undisclosed investment from Microsoft. Builder’s “Natasha” AI will be shortly available to users of Teams. But it appears the startup is on a something of a roll. It’s now announced a $250 million Series D funding led by the Qatar […]

Modular app-building platform Builder.ai raises $250 million Series D funding by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding

May 23, 2023

It was only recently that we reported Buildier.ai had signed a strategic collaboration with and undisclosed investment from Microsoft. Builder’s “Natasha” AI will be shortly available to users of Teams. But it appears the startup is on a something of a roll. It’s now announced a $250 million Series D funding led by the Qatar […]

Modular app-building platform Buildier.ai raises $250 million Series D funding by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Anthemis aims for $200M new fund after layoffs and cancelled SPAC

May 23, 2023

Anthemis Group is trying to raise $200 million for a third fund, according to an SEC filing, as first reported by Axios. It has been in the market since last year and has so far secured commitments of just $36.4 million. The firm separately had to scrap plans to raise a SPAC late last month.  […]

Anthemis aims for $200M new fund after layoffs and cancelled SPAC by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch