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Poshmark, a Redwood City, California-headquartered secondhand apparel marketplace, is laying off a proportion of its 800+ employees. The reduction is coming about two months after South Korean internet firm Naver completed its acquisition of the company earlier this year for $1.2 billion.  Naver agrees to acquire fashion marketplace Poshmark for $1.2B Poshmark confirmed to TechCrunch that […]

Poshmark lays off employees just two months after being acquired by Naver by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”. It would be fair […]

A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. This week’s newsletter is coming to you from Lisbon, Portugal. It’s a nice change of scene from chilly London. The sun is shining, the sky is bright blue, and the Tagus River…

The popular AI image generator Midjourney bans a wide range of words about the human reproductive system from being used as prompts, MIT Technology Review has discovered.  If someone types “placenta,” “fallopian tubes,” “mammary glands,” “sperm,” “uterine,” “urethra,” “cervix,” “hymen,” or “vulva” into Midjourney, the system flags the word as a banned prompt and doesn’t…

Dr. Jaishree Naidoo was in charge of pediatric radiology at a South African hospital in 2014, when she had a moment of epiphany after coming across a news story on the usage of AI recognition pattern in distinguishing animals. As a radiologist with 20 years of experience, Naidoo was already familiar with pattern recognition, and […]

South Africa’s Envisionit Deep AI gets $1.65M to expand access to medical imaging by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Coinbase, the second largest crypto exchange by trading volume, is diving into the blockchain world in a move that some are excited about.

Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain may help expand scaling on Ethereum by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

The European Union has kicked off a consultation on how to fund the “massive” upgrades to Internet connectivity which regional lawmakers believe are needed for the bloc to make the most of transformative technologies like AI or immersive virtual worlds while delivering on the big bang, cross-industry digitization it also wants to characterize the next […]

EU asks who should fund future networks, as telcos eye Australia-style Big Tech bargaining code by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch