July 16, 2025

Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF

Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus a third person who supplies healthy mitochondrial DNA. The babies were born to mothers who carry genes for mitochondrial diseases and risked passing on severe disorders. The eight babies are healthy, say…

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The UN just handed out an urgent climate to-do list. Here’s what it says.

March 20, 2023
Time is running short to address climate change, but there are feasible and effective solutions on the table, according to a new UN climate report released today.  Despite decades of warnings from scientists, global greenhouse-gas emissions are still climbing, hitting a record high in 2022. If humanity wants to limit the worst effects of climate…

Twitter testing government ID-based verification, new screenshots show

March 20, 2023

Twitter appears to be testing a new verification process for Twitter Blue subscribers that would involve submitting a government ID. Code-level insights reveal a process for sending in a photo of the user’s ID, both front and back, along with a selfie photo to verify their Twitter account. The feature is listed alongside others only […]

Twitter testing government ID-based verification, new screenshots show by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon confirms another round of layoffs, impacting 9,000 people in AWS, Twitch and other units

March 20, 2023

Amazon has announced another substantial round of layoffs in four months, as the internet giant today revealed that a further 9,000 people are set to lose their jobs. In a memo published by CEO Andy Jassy this morning, the company said that the cuts will impact those in its AWS cloud unit, Twitch gaming division, […]

Amazon confirms another round of layoffs, impacting 9,000 people in AWS, Twitch and other units by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Netflix plans to release 40 more games this year, will add Monument Valley in 2024

March 20, 2023

Netflix has announced that it has 40 games slated for launch this year and has 70 in development with its partners. The company also has 16 games currently being developed by its in-house game studios. Netflix launched games in November 2021 and has released 55 titles since then. The streaming service says it’s committed to […]

Netflix plans to release 40 more games this year, will add Monument Valley in 2024 by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: weight loss drugs, and a new abortion fight frontier

March 20, 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. Weight-loss injections have taken over the internet. But what does this mean for people IRL? Over the course of the last year, so-called “miracle” weight-loss drugs have blown up across the internet. Although…

Texas is trying out new tactics to restrict access to abortion pills online

March 20, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. There’s been a quiet shift in the abortion fight in the US. Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court last June,…

Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning

March 20, 2023

Generative AI is already looking like the major tech trend of 2023. The ability to generate fresh content via algorithms has been thrust into the public consciousness by the likes of ChatGPT, a chatbot-style technology trained on large language models (LLMs) capable of producing essays, poems, lyrics, news articles, and even computer programs. And then […]

Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Cruise Origin rolls into Austin, WeRide makes its IPO move and TuSimple stirs up more drama

March 20, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.  Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point […]

Cruise Origin rolls into Austin, WeRide makes its IPO move and TuSimple stirs up more drama by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Weight-loss injections have taken over the internet. But what does this mean for people IRL?

March 20, 2023
Michael Edenfield’s doctor calls him the Incredible Shrinking Man.  Between Thanksgiving 2021 and Christmas 2022, the 49-year-old aviation worker shed 129 pounds. Also gone: his sleep apnea machine, his high-blood-pressure medication, and a diuretic pill he had used to alleviate fluid retention in his legs. This is thanks to the only medication Edenfield takes today:…