February 13, 2026

ALS stole this musician’s voice. AI let him sing again.

There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s first time on stage with his bandmates since he lost the ability to sing two years…

mRNA vaccines just won a Nobel Prize. Now they’re ready for the next act.

October 6, 2023
Hello again from The Checkup!  This week the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine honored two scientists whose research into messenger RNA (mRNA) technology paved the way for much-lauded covid-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman figured out how to tweak mRNA to prevent it from setting off an inflammatory reaction. Their discovery, first published…

Ohm’s Quest is an electronic puzzle console inspired by escape rooms

October 6, 2023
Ohm’s Quest is a steampunk-inspired cubical device that acts as a sort of escape game console. You can scan an NFC-enabled card on a side of the cube, and it starts a new story with interactive challenges that you should solve as a team. While we don’t cover board games very often on TechCrunch, there […]

Premji Invest and Zerodha eye stake in Nainital Bank

October 6, 2023
A number of venture investors and startups are engaging with Bank of Baroda to acquire a stake in the lender’s subsidiary Nainital, according to people familiar with the matter. Premji Invest and stock broking giant Zerodha are among the prospective backers that have held conversations with Bank of Baroda, which has agreed to sell a […]

Netflix’s 6.5M India subscribers dwarfed by Prime Video and Disney, Bernstein says

October 6, 2023
Netflix has “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in India despite the global streaming giant consistently lowering the subscription costs in the country, analysts at AllianceBernstein wrote in a report to clients Thursday. The U.S. streamer has about 6.5 million subscribers in India, compared to Prime Video’s 20 million in the South Asian market, […]

‘Marked to zero’: Paradigm testimony at SBF trial points to investor fraud

October 6, 2023
The testimony of Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of crypto investment firm Paradigm, at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial may help the prosecution convince jurors that the former crypto mogul defrauded investors. Huang testified Thursday that he and his firm were in the dark about a range of business practices at FTX, red flags that would […]

All eyes on VW after Hyundai, Kia adopt Tesla charging standard

October 5, 2023
Hyundai and Kia have finally announced their plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) ports for their electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, joining the swells of automakers that have also promised to do so. The move will give Hyundai and Kia drivers — as well as drivers of Ford, General Motors, […]

a16z-backed Castelion wants to mass produce defense hardware, starting with hypersonics

October 5, 2023
One builds weapons in order that they are not used. Thus goes the central premise of deterrence theory, which says it is the credible threat of aggression – not the use of aggression – that will ensure states avoid war. This theory has dominated much of America’s strategic thinking over the past fifty-plus years, but […]