March 14, 2025

The Download: HIV prevention shots, and fixing a broken sex doll

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 annual shot might protect against HIV infections 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…

Poshmark lays off employees just two months after being acquired by Naver

February 24, 2023

Poshmark, a Redwood City, California-headquartered secondhand apparel marketplace, is laying off a proportion of its 800+ employees. The reduction is coming about two months after South Korean internet firm Naver completed its acquisition of the company earlier this year for $1.2 billion.  Naver agrees to acquire fashion marketplace Poshmark for $1.2B Poshmark confirmed to TechCrunch that […]

Poshmark lays off employees just two months after being acquired by Naver by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

February 24, 2023

Today marks exactly one year since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal of Ukraine. This week, a majority of the members of the United Nations reiterated its demand that Russia “immediately, completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine and called for a cessation of hostilities”. It would be fair […]

A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

How your brain data could be used against you

February 24, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. This week’s newsletter is coming to you from Lisbon, Portugal. It’s a nice change of scene from chilly London. The sun is shining, the sky is bright blue, and the Tagus River…

AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system

February 24, 2023
The popular AI image generator Midjourney bans a wide range of words about the human reproductive system from being used as prompts, MIT Technology Review has discovered.  If someone types “placenta,” “fallopian tubes,” “mammary glands,” “sperm,” “uterine,” “urethra,” “cervix,” “hymen,” or “vulva” into Midjourney, the system flags the word as a banned prompt and doesn’t…

Amazon joins India-backed e-commerce initiative that’s seeking to challenge the retail giant

February 24, 2023

Amazon is joining the Indian government-backed e-commerce initiative that seeks to “democratize” online shopping in the South Asian market and amusingly challenge the very dominance of companies such as the American retail group. In a statement on Friday, Amazon said it will integrate its logistics network and SmartCommerce, its platform to digitize neighborhood stores, to […]

Amazon joins India-backed e-commerce initiative that’s seeking to challenge the retail giant by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

South Africa’s Envisionit Deep AI gets $1.65M to expand access to medical imaging

February 24, 2023

Dr. Jaishree Naidoo was in charge of pediatric radiology at a South African hospital in 2014, when she had a moment of epiphany after coming across a news story on the usage of AI recognition pattern in distinguishing animals. As a radiologist with 20 years of experience, Naidoo was already familiar with pattern recognition, and […]

South Africa’s Envisionit Deep AI gets $1.65M to expand access to medical imaging by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch