July 4, 2025

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…

3 Charts Point to More Bearish Downside Ahead

April 7, 2023
There are finally cracks in the previously resilient employment foundation of the economy. This is leading more investors to become bearish on the stock market. That is hard to see…

We can use stem cells to make embryos. How far should we go?

April 7, 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. Embryos are special. These tiny blobs of cells have the potential to create life. That’s why we limit what scientists can do with them. Researchers are generally not allowed to grow human…

With latest hit Lemon8, ByteDance again learns from the China playbook

April 7, 2023

Amid a wave of heated debate over whether TikTok should be banned, another ByteDance product, Lemon8, has popped up and quickly climbed into the top 10 on America’s app stores. Lemon8’s sudden rise is reminiscent of TikTok’s early-day growth. At the time Vine had already pioneered short video sharing in the U.S., but TikTok took […]

With latest hit Lemon8, ByteDance again learns from the China playbook by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

India’s central bank abandons UPI rival project

April 7, 2023

India’s central bank has halted its plans for a high-profile project intended to rival the nation’s dominant payment system, Unified Payments Interface. The project had attracted significant interest from a variety of major conglomerates, tech giants, and financial institutions, including Amazon, Reliance, Facebook, Tata Group, Google, HDFC, and ICICI. The Reserve Bank of India had […]

India’s central bank abandons UPI rival project by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung cuts memory chip production as it hits worst quarterly profit since 2009 

April 7, 2023

Samsung Electronics plans to cut back memory chip production as its operating profit in the first quarter of 2023 is expected to plummet about 96% from the previous year. This will be the lowest profit posted by the South Korean tech giant since 1Q 2009.   The global macroeconomic slowdown, memory chip oversupply and sluggish demand […]

Samsung cuts memory chip production as it hits worst quarterly profit since 2009  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch