July 25, 2025

The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

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. How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to salvage US climate programs Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of…

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MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal

April 14, 2023

A shiny new data transfers deal between the European Union and the United States aimed at fixing costly legal uncertainty over exports of personal data isn’t in place yet but the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is predicting the incoming EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) won’t survive a legal challenge — just as its two […]

MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

A test told me my brain and liver are older than they should be. Should I be worried?

April 14, 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. It’s spring here in the Northern Hemisphere. There are daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths in full bloom in parks and window boxes where I live in London. I even saw some lambs on…

Banning ChatGPT will do more harm than good

April 14, 2023
The release of ChatGPT has sent shock waves through the halls of higher education. Universities have rushed to release guidelines on how it can be used in the classroom. Professors have taken to social media to share a spectrum of AI policies. And students—whether or not they’ll admit it—have cautiously experimented with the idea of allowing…

500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tiblisi

April 14, 2023

European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. For instance, TechStars Stockholm was all set to launch and then abruptly shut down. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, […]

500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tiblisi by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar landing

April 13, 2023

ispace, a company with a spacecraft en route to the moon, is now trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The Japanese firm raised around $52 million (¥6.7 billion) in an initial public offering last month. Shares reportedly went untraded on the first listing day due to a large volume of buy orders and demand to […]

Japanese firm ispace lists on the Tokyo Stock Exchange ahead of first lunar landing by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Elevate lands $28M to help employers better manage benefits

April 13, 2023

Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation from Fin Capital Norwest Venture Partners, Greycroft, Bowery Capital, and Firebolt Ventures. The new cash, which brings Elevate’s total raised to $43 million, will be put toward product development, hiring and customer acquisition, […]

Elevate lands $28M to help employers better manage benefits by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Redfin is laying off more workers as housing downturn persists

April 13, 2023

Redfin has laid off 201 employees, the third time the Seattle-based real estate company has reduced its workforce since June. The layoffs, which represents about 4% of its workforce, was first reported by GeekWire. A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs and told TechCrunch in an email that the roles were primarily in “real estate support” […]

Redfin is laying off more workers as housing downturn persists by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Kepler Communications closes $92M Series C to grow real-time satellite data relay network

April 13, 2023

Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network. The new funding, which comes to $92 million, will be used to launch a constellation of optical communications satellites next year. Those satellites will join Kepler’s existing network of 19 radio-frequency satellites operating in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO). Two […]

Kepler Communications closes $92M Series C to grow real-time satellite data relay network by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch