Technology

The Download: capturing carbon with seagrass, and China’s election interference

November 9, 2022
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. Inside Alphabet X’s new effort to combat climate change with seagrass For years, Tidal, a project within Alphabet’s “moonshot factory” X division, has been using cameras, computer vision and machine learning to get…

China is copying Russia’s election interference playbook

November 9, 2022
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Last week I was in Boston attending EmTech MIT, our signature annual event, and since then I’ve been thinking about all the interesting ideas I heard—from programming vaccines to work against different diseases to increasing…

Inside Alphabet X’s new effort to combat climate change with seagrass

November 9, 2022
In late September, Bianca Bahman snorkeled above a seagrass meadow off the western coast of Flores, a scorpion-shaped volcanic island in eastern Indonesia. As she flutter-kicked over the green seabed, Bahman steered an underwater camera suspended on a pair of small pontoons. The stereoscopic camera captures high-resolution footage from two slightly different angles, creating a…

Celonis can now map multiple processes and present them in subway-style map

November 9, 2022

Celonis has made a big impact since it launched in 2011, raising $2.4 billion along the way. Its most recent investment, a $1 billion raise in August, was on a $13.2 billion post-money valuation, the kind of money you haven’t been seeing in 2022. The company has primarily made its reputation by using software for […]

Celonis can now map multiple processes and present them in subway-style map by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Why watch a movie when you can watch your corporate all-hands meeting?

November 9, 2022

Movie theater attendance is down, largely thanks to the pandemic, but chains like AMC still need to make money. If meme stocks aren’t a reliable business plan, why not find another use for a giant room with a huge screen and lots of seats? In partnership with Zoom, AMC Theatres will launch a product called […]

Why watch a movie when you can watch your corporate all-hands meeting? by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter will add an ‘official’ badge to high-profile accounts in lieu of verification

November 9, 2022

Twitter is turning the famous blue check mark into a symbol that denotes you’ve paid Elon Musk $8, rather than one that identifies public figures. But of course, if anyone with a spare $8 and a fragile ego can get verified, then the symbol is rendered meaningless, paving the way for trolls to go hard […]

Twitter will add an ‘official’ badge to high-profile accounts in lieu of verification by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch