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Early last year, entrepreneur Luke Iseman says, he released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather balloons from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, in the hope that they’d burst miles above Earth.  It was a trivial act in itself, involving far less of the gas than a commercial airliner releases. But the launch was imbued with meaning,…

This Irish startup without a bank account gives surplus wind power to those in need.

Without a single euro changing hands, Irish nonprofit is helping to reinvent the grid by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

CommScope employees say they haven’t heard from executives in over a week about how the company is responding to a ransomware attack, which allowed hackers to steal reams of corporate and employee data from its systems. The technology giant, which designs and builds network infrastructure products for companies, hospitals, schools, and federal networks, recently admitted […]

CommScope employees left in the dark after ransomware attack by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

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. America’s first IVF baby is pitching a way to pick the DNA of your kids Elizabeth Carr is head of commercial development at Genomic Prediction, a genetic testing startup that says it will…

The company develops whole cuts of alternative proteins using fermentation technology and food-grade microorganisms.

Chunk Foods close to opening factory to produce ‘millions’ of plant-based steaks by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Easyship, the New York- and Singapore-based startup that enables e-commerce sellers to integrate with more than 250 courier services, announced today it has expanded its partnership with eBay to support eBay International Shipping, a newly-launched program. This means that buyers can now access more regional and express shipping solutions for international destinations through eBay’s platform. […]

Easyship strikes agreement to support eBay’s new International Shipping program by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

If artificial intelligence feels like it is taking over the world, that feeling has become an anxious obsession among larger tech companies. These are organizations that have typically thrived secure in the knowledge that they can keep a competitive edge through their very DNA: leveraging software to build more interesting, faster and disruptive products. Now, […]

Intuit’s shift by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. We’re gathered here today to commemorate the demise of a towering figure in the energy world: nuclear power in Germany. Born: June 16, 1961. Died: April 15, 2023.  Just a decade ago, Germany…

Kakao Pay, the online payment service of South Korean messaging and internet giant Kakao, announced that it has acquired a stake in Siebert Financial, a brokerage firm based in New York. Kakao spent $17 million on this transaction and the company now owns a 19.9% stake in Siebert. This is just the first step as […]

Korean fintech Kakao Pay to acquire majority stake in US brokerage firm Siebert by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

The concept of SaaS as a business model changed the game in tech by moving users away from buying software outright and towards paying for service availability based on time-based subscriptions, typically with per-month or annual pricing. Today, a startup out of London called M3ter that is building tools to take the next step in […]

M3ter locks in $14M to expand its usage-based pricing tools for SaaS businesses by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch