July 7, 2025

Producing tangible business benefits from modern iPaaS solutions

When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols.  The company needed…

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UK touts £21M fund to extend AI deeper into the National Health Service

June 23, 2023

The AI revolution has swung full-force into the mainstream conversation this year, powered by consumer-friendly generative AI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But while such tools are raising myriad legal and ethical questions, the emergence of new and powerful large language models (LLMs) also have the potential to revolutionize healthcare. This is why the U.K. […]

UK touts £21M fund to extend AI deeper into the National Health Service by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

EvaluAgent raises $20M to build out software that evaluates call center agents

June 23, 2023

After spending more than a decade in the customer experience industry, three friends, Jaime Scott, Michelle Dinsmore and Alex Richards, decided to launch their own company, EvaluAgent, to develop quality assurance testing software for contact centers. The three co-founders say that they were motivated by a shared desire to find a solution to the problem […]

EvaluAgent raises $20M to build out software that evaluates call center agents by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Forcite seeks the smart helmet success that Skully squandered

June 23, 2023

Whither, Skully? The Indiegogo darling of a smart helmet company made all sorts of promises in 2014 and even shipped a few lids to early backers before getting lost on the way to market and disappearing into a cloud of misplaced hype and undelivered promises. Nearly a decade later, another company called Forcite is back […]

Forcite seeks the smart helmet success that Skully squandered by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch

Singapore’s ride-hailing firm Grab lays off over 1,100 employees 

June 23, 2023

On-demand startups in Asia raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors over the last several years to scale and compete heavily in ride-sharing, alternative transport, delivery, and a supersized range of related and unrelated services. Now comes the reckoning.  This week, Southeast Asian supper app ride-hailing and food delivery app operator Grab laid off […]

Singapore’s ride-hailing firm Grab lays off over 1,100 employees  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Google introduces new accessibility and collaboration features for classrooms

June 23, 2023

Google introduced new accessibility and learning features on Tuesday at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) expo. These features included expansion of the reading mode, pairing with a sign language interpreter in Google Meet, and AI-powered question suggestions in a class. The company has been experimenting with AI-powered tools in its consumer products […]

Google introduces new accessibility and collaboration features for classrooms by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: AI training AI, and the future of robotaxis

June 23, 2023
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. The people paid to train AI are outsourcing their work… to AI The news: Many people who are paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new…

What Are the 3 Best Tech Stocks Now?

June 23, 2023
Despite macroeconomic concerns, demand for technology products and services is expected to remain robust. Also, given the solid long-term prospects of the industry, fundamentally sound tech stocks Concentrix (CNXC), Indra…

Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund

June 23, 2023

Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and Patch under her belt. Today, she announced Planeteer Capital, focusing on startups that want to work on challenges related to climate change. The firm won’t comment how big the fund will be, but suggests it had a first close […]

Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

The wild race to improve synthetic embryos

June 23, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. This week, Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine is filling in for Jess Hamzelou. Something journalists and scientists have in common is that they hate getting scooped. And it’s especially annoying when the…

The chip patterning machines that will shape computing’s next act

June 23, 2023
When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it to be created—disciplines like optics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. It’s thanks to advances in these areas that we can…