Sony and Honda give up on their joint EV project
The Sony-Honda joint venture has killed plans for its Afeela sedan and SUV electric vehicles. The news comes shortly after Honda reversed its plans to launch more electric vehicles in the U.S.
Cyber-Insecurity in the AI Era
Cybersecurity was already under strain before AI entered the stack. Now, as AI expands the attack surface and adds new complexity, the limits of legacy approaches are becoming harder to ignore. This session from MIT Technology Review’s EmTech AI conference explores why security must be rethought with AI at its core, not layered on after…
Elon Musk pauses changes to X’s creator revenue-sharing program after backlash
Hours after announcement of the new policy Elon Musk said X is pausing the rollout.
What Two ER Visits Taught Me About American Healthcare Leadership Failures
Going to the ER (twice) gave me a firsthand view of how fragmentation and impersonal systems fail people at life’s most critical moments.
The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns
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. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature…
This 20TB Cloud Storage Deal Costs Less Than a Year of iCloud’s 12TB Plan
This affordable cloud storage solution lets you own your space outright.
After pivoting, Y Combinator grad Glimpse raises $35M led by a16z
Glimpse announced on Wednesday a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and YC.
Harbinger’s next product will be hybrid emergency vehicles
The young California startup is already building RVs, FedEx vans, and box trucks. Now its hybrid powertrain will underpin ambulances and mobile healthcare units.
Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem
Arinna builds solar cells specifically for spacecraft and has developed an ultrathin new material that it expects to be far more flexible and more efficient than current technology.
With Sift Stack, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
Sift is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing.
A Former Apple Engineer Behind Face ID Is Now Building an 8-Figure AI Startup: ‘We’re the Guardians of AI’
Vince Gaydarzhiev’s startup, Alcatraz, ensures that top companies remain secure with face security scans.