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The Download: hydrogen-powered planes, and abortion pills

January 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. Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight The news: In a record trip for low-carbon aviation, a startup has completed a test flight of a 19-seat aircraft powered in part by hydrogen…

How CRISPR is making farmed animals bigger, stronger, and healthier

January 20, 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. The CRISPR gene-editing tool has been making headlines for the last 10 years, since scientists showed it could be used to easily alter the genome of a living organism. The technology could…

More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices

January 20, 2023

Public universities across a widening swath of U.S. states have banned TikTok in recent months, and two of the country’s largest colleges just followed suit. The University of Texas and Texas A&M University are two of the latest colleges to take action against the social app, which is owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance. The […]

More universities are banning TikTok from their campus networks and devices by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Share Creators wants to solve asset management mess for game developers

January 20, 2023

Finding a product-market fit isn’t always easy, but when you are the end-user experiencing a real pain point, the solution might be more obvious. That’s the case for newly-funded Share Creators, a platform that helps game developers manage and store large media assets as remote work becomes increasingly common in the industry. Based in the […]

Share Creators wants to solve asset management mess for game developers by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

A $32 million seed round for Chris DeWolfe’s next gaming biz defies 2023 trends

January 20, 2023

A $32 million seed round may seem like a throwback to frothier times like . . .2021. But that’s how much PLAI Labs just raised in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). It seems like a lot of moolah in a volatile market, even coming as it does from two separate a16z funds: the […]

A $32 million seed round for Chris DeWolfe’s next gaming biz defies 2023 trends by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter officially bans third-party clients after cutting off prominent devs

January 19, 2023

After cutting off prominent app makers like Tweetbot and Twitterific, Twitter today quietly updated its developer terms to ban third-party clients altogether. Spotted by Engadget, the “restrictions” section of Twitter’s 5,000-some-word developer agreement was updated with a clause prohibiting “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar […]

Twitter officially bans third-party clients after cutting off prominent devs by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Hydrogen-powered planes take off with startup’s test flight

January 19, 2023
In a record trip for low-carbon aviation, a startup company has completed a test flight of a 19-seat aircraft powered in part by hydrogen fuel cells. It’s the largest plane that ZeroAvia, a leader in developing hydrogen-electric systems for planes, has tested in the air to date.  The flight took off from Cotswold Airport in…

Meta centralizes more user and privacy settings across its apps, announces changes to ads controls

January 19, 2023

Facebook parent Meta announced today it’s further centralizing various user settings across its suite of apps — Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. As a result, several existing settings will be relocated to Meta’s “Accounts Center” feature, first launched in 2020. Specifically, the changes will see Meta moving settings related to personal details, passwords, security options and […]

Meta centralizes more user and privacy settings across its apps, announces changes to ads controls by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch