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. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. We’re going back to the moon. And back. And back. And back again. It’s been more than 50 years since humans last walked on the…
Twitter has removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend. The change is already live on the website. Notably, Musk tweeted that x.com now also redirects to twitter.com. In the post, Musk also called this an “interim” logo, so […]
Cryptocurrency mobile wallet ZenGo has introduced a handful of new features combined with a new premium subscription called ZenGo Pro that costs $20 per month. This new, optional subscription brings additional security features for users who have a lot of crypto assets or who are really concerned about security in general — basic accounts remain […]
Worldcoin Foundation, Sam Altman’s crypto startup with the vision to “drastically increase economic opportunity,” has started the rollout of its services in 20 nations, more than three years after it began its work. The startup, which has raised about $250 million and counts Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Reid Hoffman among its backers, said it’s rolling […]
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Your usual host Kirsten Korosec is still away, so you have me for one more week. Let’s jump in. U.S. policymakers and agencies are looking for ways to regulate […]
Elon Musk has been calling his Twitter acquisition X Corp basically since he bought it, and that is its official legal entity name already, but now it could be the customer-facing brand for the bird app, too. Or soon-to-be-former-bird-app, actually. Musk tweeted late Saturday night that he’d replace the Twitter bitter logo with an ‘X’ […]