June 27, 2025

This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers

In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small AI data center. Redwood Materials, one of the US’s largest battery recycling companies, showed off this array of energy storage modules, sitting on cinder blocks and wrapped in waterproof plastic, during a press…

A dual-use ‘Slack+location+payments’ startup raises Seed to serve humanitarian, military scenarios

December 22, 2023

When Helsing raised a $223 million Series B round, the tech world saw it as continued confirmation that Defence was unquestionably back on the investing agenda. Further confirmation comes today in the form of a $5.5 million Seed round for UK defense tech startup Labrys Technologies, led by Germany’s Project A Ventures. Also participating were […]

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The Download: 2023’s worst tech failures, and the end of online anonymity in China

December 22, 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. The worst technology failures of 2023 Welcome to our annual list of the worst technologies. This year, one technology disaster in particular holds lessons for the rest of us: the Titan submersible that…

3 Publishing Stocks to Watch in 2024

December 22, 2023
The increased incorporation of digital technology continues to be a crucial catalyst propelling sustained resilience within the publishing industry, ensuring its stability through the foreseeable future. To that end, let’s…