July 4, 2025

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…

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Tragic killing in SF, Twitter sends dogecoin soaring, and Android gains an account deletion option

April 8, 2023

It’s that time of the week, folks: Week in Review (WiR) time. If you’re new to WiR, it’s the newsletter where TechCrunch recaps the week in tech that was. We get it — you’re a busy person. We all are. So what better way to catch up on what’s happened than in a summarized, bullet-point […]

Tragic killing in SF, Twitter sends dogecoin soaring, and Android gains an account deletion option by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links

April 7, 2023

So much for “free speech absolutism.” Twitter is censoring Substack links by making the posts impossible to reply to, like or retweet. While quote tweeting works, simply pressing the retweet button surfaces an error message: “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter.” The timing of this action doesn’t seem coincidental. Two days […]

Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Delivering a quantum future

April 7, 2023
More companies are starting to consider the impact that quantum computing will have on their business in the coming years. According to a survey by Deloitte, about half of all companies believe that they are vulnerable to a “harvest now, decrypt later” attack, where encrypted information is stored until a future quantum computer can decrypt…

TechCrunch’s crypto-focused podcast Chain Reaction is nominated for a Webby Award

April 7, 2023

Every week something newsworthy (or chaotic) transpires in the wild world of crypto. And this week was no different, but for somewhat personal reasons. I’m excited to share that the podcast I host, Chain Reaction, was nominated for a Webby award in the Best Technology Podcast category. You can help Chain Reaction win by voting […]

TechCrunch’s crypto-focused podcast Chain Reaction is nominated for a Webby Award by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this

April 7, 2023

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. We had some thoughts about that. But! There was a lot more […]

Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

We can use stem cells to make embryos. How far should we go?

April 7, 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. Embryos are special. These tiny blobs of cells have the potential to create life. That’s why we limit what scientists can do with them. Researchers are generally not allowed to grow human…

With latest hit Lemon8, ByteDance again learns from the China playbook

April 7, 2023

Amid a wave of heated debate over whether TikTok should be banned, another ByteDance product, Lemon8, has popped up and quickly climbed into the top 10 on America’s app stores. Lemon8’s sudden rise is reminiscent of TikTok’s early-day growth. At the time Vine had already pioneered short video sharing in the U.S., but TikTok took […]

With latest hit Lemon8, ByteDance again learns from the China playbook by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch