Meta’s Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads

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February 22, 2024

Meta’s external advisory group, its Oversight Board, announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads along with Facebook and Instagram to scrutinize Meta’s content moderation decisions. This means if users on Threads are unsatisfied with Meta’s decision on issues like content or account takedown, they can appeal to the Oversight Board. “The Board’s […]

Ready, set, grow: These are the biotech plants you can buy now

February 22, 2024

This spring I am looking forward to growing some biotech in my backyard for the first time. It’s possible because of startups that have started selling genetically engineered plants directly to consumers, including a bright-purple tomato and a petunia that glows in the dark. This week, for $73, I ordered both by pressing a few…

Zūm Rails takes in first capital to launch new banking-as-a-service, FedNow offerings

February 22, 2024

Zūm Rails manages the flow of money by verifying a customer’s identity, linking directly with bank accounts and facilitating payments via the method of the customer’s choosing.

Consolidation continues in micromobility as Cooltra snaps up Cityscoot

February 22, 2024

Paris’ commercial court has accepted Cooltra’s offer to acquire Cityscoot. These two companies provide shared electric mopeds that you can unlock and ride to go from one place to another. Cityscoot had been placed under court-ordered receivership several months ago. As interest rates hovered around 0% in Europe, micromobility startups thrived. Europe became the perfect […]

How tracking animal movement may save the planet

February 22, 2024

There was something strange about the way the sharks were moving between the islands of the Bahamas. Tiger sharks tend to hug the shoreline, explains marine biologist Austin Gallagher, but when he began tagging the 1,000-pound animals with satellite transmitters in 2016, he discovered that these predators turned away from it, toward two ancient underwater…

Watch this robot as it learns to stitch up wounds

February 22, 2024

An AI-trained surgical robot that can make a few stitches on its own is a small step toward systems that can aid surgeons with such repetitive tasks. A video taken by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, shows the two-armed robot completing six stitches in a row on a simple wound in imitation skin,…

Three frequently asked questions about EVs, answered

February 22, 2024

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. For someone who does not own or drive a car, I sure do have a lot of thoughts about them. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about transportation in general,…

Hohm Energy to scale adoption of rooftop solar across South Africa, backed by $8M seed

February 22, 2024

In the face of South Africa’s worsening energy crisis, marked by increasingly severe power shortages, implementing daily electricity rationing has become imperative to avert the risk of a nationwide grid collapse. According to the state-owned power generator Eskom, the country witnesses a significant power deficit, surpassing 6,000 megawatts on occasion. This situation is similar in […]

Uber CEO says firm to explore integration with India’s ONDC

February 22, 2024

Uber has signed a memorandum of understanding with an Indian government-backed program that aims to make mobility and commerce more accessible across the South Asian nation. The ride-hailing giant said Thursday that it will explore an integration with Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) to explore integrations with the network and expand range of its […]

Backed by Chinese carmaker Great Wall, Haomo raises $14M for autonomous driving tech

February 22, 2024

After a few years of funding frenzy, autonomous driving companies in China are experiencing a slowdown in investment. Some companies are still hauling in capital, though the era of bankrolling several hundred million dollars in a single round has mostly passed. Haomo.ai, an autonomous driving startup backed by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor, has raised […]

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