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Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs reveal what it takes to win funding in a rapidly evolving landscape, as they place bets on the next wave of AI founders. Hear groundbreaking insights from leaders at visionary startups like Apptronik, […]

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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more

March 2, 2023

Hexa, a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from Point72 Ventures, Samurai Incubate, Sarona Partners and HTC. CEO and co-founder Yehiel Atias said that the cash will be put toward product development and expanded customer acquisition efforts well into 2023. HTC’s participation in the […]

Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease

March 2, 2023
When the first baby born using a controversial procedure that meant he had three genetic parents was born back in 2016, it made headlines. The baby boy inherited most of his DNA from his mother and father, but he also had a tiny amount from a third person. The idea was to avoid having the…

Researchers launched a solar geoengineering test flight in the UK last fall

March 2, 2023
Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering field, MIT Technology Review has learned. Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by deliberately reflecting more sunlight into space.…

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition

March 1, 2023

Android was, predictably, everywhere at Mobile World Congress. At a show where Apple has no public-facing presence, Google’s mobile operating system is almost entirely ubiquitous. As in past years, the company also set up a sprawling outdoor booth between halls. This time, the focus was on interoperability and ecosystem. You’d be hard-pressed to find a […]

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos

March 1, 2023

Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both brilliant and combative, Palihapitiya came to be known most widely by ushering in the era of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, beginning in the fall of 2019, when he helped Virgin Galactic become a publicly traded […]

Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs

March 1, 2023

Alphabet’s Waymo has issued its second round of layoffs this year, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Combined with the initial cuts in January, the self-driving technology company has let go of 8% or 209 employees of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure that follows a […]

Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel

March 1, 2023

Roku struck a deal with creator company Jellysmack to launch new content featuring 17 popular YouTube and TikTok creators like Brad Mondo, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Emmy Cho (Emmymade), Karina Garcia and more. The company announced yesterday that it’s launching two free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, “Hello Inspo” and “Mysteria,” to The Roku Channel’s Live TV […]

Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch