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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. Your digital life isn’t as permanent as you think it is Earlier this week, Google announced its intention to start deleting personal accounts that haven’t been active in over two years in December.…

The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Now, a startup that’s building technology to serve that sector announced a supersized round of funding to nourish its growth. Restaurant365, which develops all-in-one restaurant management software, announced $135 million in […]

Restaurant365 gobbles up $135M to supersize its software for the food service industry by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Robyn Caplan understands the fragility of digital memories intimately. After tragically losing both of her parents during the covid pandemic, Caplan treasures the digital possessions she inherited. She cherishes her mom’s iPad, access to her dad’s email inbox, and message threads with both of them. It allows her to see the world through the eyes…

This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. What if I told you there’s a group of people who think death is morally bad—that we have a moral duty to find ways to slow or reverse aging? Who seek to…

On Tuesday of this week, neuroscientist, founder and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery, who is IBM’s chief privacy trust officer, as all three testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee for over three hours. The senators were largely focused on Altman because he runs one of the most powerful […]

Psst, Gary Marcus is happy to help regulate AI on behalf of the U.S. government by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

As tech conglomerates and moneyed men call for AI dealers to pump their breaks, I believe another emergent technology, Heinz Remix, warrants close examination. At first, Heinz Remix simply appears to be a mix-n-match soda dispenser — for sauce. Yet, a great deal more is going on beneath the surface. This is about responsibility, in […]

Big sauce wants your condiment data by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Google updated its policy on inactive accounts on Tuesday, declaring that any account that has not been active in two years will be deleted. The people of the internet quickly pushed back: what about old YouTube accounts? There’s a trove of internet history lying in dusty corners of YouTube, not to mention the accounts of […]

YouTube will no longer be deleting videos from inactive accounts by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Before the COVID pandemic put pressure on an already squeezed transportation and logistics industry, Phantom Auto’s remote driving systems were viewed as an interesting, not essential, piece of technology. “It went from a cool to have, to have-to-have,” co-founder Elliot Katz told TechCrunch, adding that companies were particularly keen to apply the remote driving technology […]

Where remote driving startup Phantom Auto has found new funding and customers by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Ledger, one of the biggest crypto wallet providers, has launched a new feature called Ledger Recover, and not everyone is happy about it.

Turns out Ledger can hold some of your crypto wallet’s keys, if you agree to it by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

A soft electronic skin could allow people with prosthetics to sense pressure and temperature, helping them to more easily interact with their surroundings. Thin and stretchable like regular skin, the electronic skin sticks to surfaces like a Band-Aid. It contains sensors to measure external temperature and pressure, which it sends to an implanted electrode in…