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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Australian clean-tech Endua fixes renewable energy’s intermittency problem

May 22, 2023

One major problem with renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro is intermittency. This means they cannot be relied on constantly since, for example, the sun might stop shining or it might be a still, windless day. To fill gaps, users often rely on diesel generators or batteries. But diesel generators produce emissions and […]

Australian clean-tech Endua fixes renewable energy’s intermittency problem by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI leaders propose international regulatory body for AI

May 22, 2023

AI is developing rapidly enough and the dangers it may pose are clear enough that OpenAI’s leadership believes that the world needs an international regulatory body akin to that governing nuclear power — and fast. But not too fast. In a post to the company’s blog, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, and Chief […]

OpenAI leaders propose international regulatory body for AI by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Discord is testing parental controls that allow for monitoring of friends and servers

May 22, 2023

New usernames aren’t the only change coming to the popular chat app Discord, now used by 150 million people every month. The company is also testing a suite of parental controls that would allow for increased oversight of Discord’s youngest users, TechCrunch has learned and Discord confirmed. In a live test running in Discord’s iOS […]

Discord is testing parental controls that allow for monitoring of friends and servers by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Our quick guide to the 6 ways we can regulate AI

May 22, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. AI regulation is hot. Ever since the success of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, the public’s attention has been grabbed by wonder and worry about what these powerful AI tools can do. Generative…

Meta’s new AI models can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages

May 22, 2023
Meta has built AI models that can recognize and produce speech for more than 1,000 languages—a tenfold increase on what’s currently available. It’s a significant step towards preserving languages that are at risk of disappearing, the company says. Meta is releasing its models to the public via the code hosting service GitHub. It claims that…

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners

May 22, 2023

You voted in droves and the results are finally in! We can’t wait to hear the 10 incredible roundtables that you chose to send to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, September 19–21 in San Francisco. After counting literally thousands of votes, we’re ready to share the winners with you. But first… A reminder from the home office: […]

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Meta and data, chips and dips, crypto and meltdowns

May 22, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Today, we are talking about Meta’s latest fines, what’s new in chips, and […]

Meta and data, chips and dips, crypto and meltdowns by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts

May 22, 2023

If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history — all the components you might need, at your fingertips. Volition just raised $11 million to become the same indispensable supplier for mechanical and industrial engineering: think motors, gears, pneumatics, hydraulics, controllers, sensors, measuring and test equipment, and a […]

Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too

May 22, 2023

Amazon One, the retailer’s palm-scanning payment technology, is now gaining new functionality with the addition of age verification services. The company announced today that customers using Amazon One devices will be able to buy adult beverages — like beers at a sports event — just by hovering their palm over the Amazon One device. The […]

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch