March 14, 2025

This annual shot might protect against HIV infections

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations…

Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang

March 6, 2023

An international law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of suspected core members of the prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware operation. German and Ukrainian police, working with law enforcement partners including Europol and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said they took action last month against the notorious group blamed for numerous large-scale attacks since […]

Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU

March 6, 2023

It’s taken rather longer than a month for Meta-owned WhatsApp to commit to address complaints swirling around how it imposes terms of service on users but the European Commission has just announced that the messaging platform has agreed to improve how it communicates to users and presents future ToS updates. Early in 2021, WhatsApp triggered […]

WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day

March 6, 2023

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Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform

March 6, 2023

After a slow start in the UK and Europe, open banking is catching on with fintechs, who are using APIs to access banking data and rails and using them as an alternative to traditional credit networks to build products. Now, a UK-based consumer lending service called Abound is doubling down on its ambitions in the […]

Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Inside the government agency shaping the future of energy

March 6, 2023
The US government had a hand in creating some of the most iconic inventions of the last century, from personal computers to modern GPS. Now, it’s making a similar push for energy. The agency behind those breakthroughs was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Founded in 1958 as part of the Department of…

Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs

March 6, 2023

Alerzo, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 […]

Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

How to log off

March 6, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. As soon as I wake up, I grab my phone to check any messages that have arrived overnight and thumb through news alerts before scrolling quickly through Twitter and Instagram. At…

Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts

March 6, 2023

Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts in 63 transactions […]

Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch