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A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering. That refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large…

This year in tech, too much happened and very little of it made sense. It was like we were being controlled by a random number generator that would dictate the whims of the tech industry, leading to multiple “biggest news stories of the year” happening over the course of a month, all completely disconnected from […]

This year in tech felt like a simulation by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

A dozen countries in Africa including Nigeria, the continent’s biggest economy and democracy, are expected to hold their presidential elections next year, and questions linger on how well social media platforms are prepared to curb mis and dis-information after claims of botched content moderation during Kenya’s polls last August. Concerns are mounting as it emerges […]

Questions linger over Facebook, Twitter, TikTok’s commitment to uphold election integrity in Africa, as countries head to polls by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Remember the Apple Airpower charging mat? Announced in 2017, the device was supposed to recharge three devices simultaneously, but Apple never released it, citing engineering issues. Now, Tesla is giving it a shot with the just-announced Wireless Charging Platform. Inside the Cybertruck-inspired aluminum casing is a wireless charging platform called FreePower from a startup called […]

Tesla announces a $300 charging mat that can recharge 3 devices at once by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

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. Our favorite stories of 2022 We like to think we’ve had a great year here at MIT Technology Review. Our stories have won numerous awards (this story from our magazine won Gold in…

Facebook’s parent company Meta has agreed a $725 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. First reported by Reuters earlier today, the deal follows nearly four months after news first emerged that Meta had proposed a settlement in the Northern District of California where the suit was […]

Facebook parent Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725M by Paul Sawers 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. Today, there are lots of neurotechnologies that can read what’s going on in our brains, modify the way they function, and change the wiring.  This is the case for plenty of treatments…

In 2022, AI got creative. AI models can now produce remarkably convincing pieces of text, pictures, and even videos, with just a little prompting. It’s only been nine months since OpenAI set off the generative AI explosion with the launch of DALL-E 2, a deep-learning model that can produce images from text instructions. That was…

Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart no longer owns a stake in payments firm PhonePe. The two said on Friday that they have completed a full ownership separation of PhonePe and shareholders in the Singapore entities of both firms have purchased shares directly in PhonePe’s India entity. The move comes as PhonePe, which was acquired by Flipkart […]

Flipkart and PhonePe complete separation by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch