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What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated…

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Snapchat now lets you virtually try on and buy Halloween costumes directly within its app

October 11, 2022

Snapchat is rolling out a new AR experience that lets you try on and purchase Halloween costumes directly within its app, the company announced today. Starting today, Snapchat users can try on and buy costumes of popular movie and TV characters from Stranger Things, Harry Potter, Squid Game, Minecraft, Ghostbusters and more. The new AR […]

Snapchat now lets you virtually try on and buy Halloween costumes directly within its app by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Fidu wants to be a full stack solution for LatAm private schools

October 11, 2022

Nicolás Giménez, the co-founder of Argentina-based startup Fidu, has convinced over 1,000 schools across the Latin America region to place their operations in the hands of a scrappy edtech startup. Fidu wants to build a new operating system for LatAm schools, so that institutions can digitally manage everything from finances to school-wide announcements. The company, […]

Fidu wants to be a full stack solution for LatAm private schools by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

SettleMint lands €16M to beef up its web3 low-code platform and enter Japan

October 11, 2022

Blockchain has quickly evolved beyond its financial origins and crypto pump-and-dump frenzy. From agricultural companies to auto manufacturers, established sectors have come to embrace the decentralized technology. But as with other nascent fields, web3 has a shortage of skilled programmers that is hindering the creative growth of the industry. That’s a gap that SettleMint is […]

SettleMint lands €16M to beef up its web3 low-code platform and enter Japan by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is asking users to enter their birthdate to view sensitive content

October 11, 2022

Twitter is ramping up its efforts to filter sensitive content to prevent users under 18 from viewing inappropriate material by asking users to verify their birthdates. The company said it’s slowly rolling out a feature to restrict sensitive tweets unless users have a birthdate attached to their accounts and they’re over 18. Over the past […]

Twitter is asking users to enter their birthdate to view sensitive content by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt

October 11, 2022

Hollywood powerhouse, comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Hart makes the world laugh both onstage and on camera. But behind the scenes, he’s a serious entrepreneur building a multiplatform media empire. He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. What’s more, Hart’s […]

Kevin Hart gets serious about financial inclusion at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Alchemy, Ava Labs and BlockFi break down funding in a bear market at TC Sessions: Crypto

October 11, 2022

Bears hibernate during the coldest months, but there’s nowhere to hide from a bear market during a crypto winter. As the entire sector faces what looks to be a long stretch of uncertainty, young founders must find a way to keep the funds flowing. But how? This timely topic is why we’re thrilled that industry […]

Alchemy, Ava Labs and BlockFi break down funding in a bear market at TC Sessions: Crypto by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch

Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences

October 11, 2022

Life science businesses like big pharmaceutical companies have a singular set of needs when it comes to building applications. Their models and algorithms tend to be more sophisticated and data-intensive than most industries. Quantori, a Cambridge, MA startup, is building a Platform-as-a-Service tuned specifically to the needs of this vertical. The startup is attempting to […]

Quantori is building an app development platform focused on life sciences by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: harmful AI, and a deadlier monkeypox variant

October 11, 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. Who’s going to save us from bad AI? About damn time. That was the response from AI policy and ethics wonks to news last week that the White House’s science and technology advisory…

How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook)

October 11, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg will make his impassioned pleas that the metaverse is a real thing and a valid Next Big Business for Meta (neé The Facebook) on Tuesday. The annual Meta Connect developer conference kicks off with a keynote starting at 10 AM PDT / 1 PM EDT, which is followed immediately by a more technical […]

How to watch Meta Connect’s 2022 Keynote (hint: Facebook) by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch