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…

Sylvera banks $57M to put carbon offsetting on a path to Net Zero

July 18, 2023
London-based climate intelligence startup Sylvera has closed another chunky funding round — bagging $57 million in Series B funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Speedinvest, Seedcamp and LocalGlobe. New investors Fidelity Strategic Ventures, Bain & Company and 9Yards Capital are also joining the round. The […]

Bluesky is under fire for allowing usernames with racial slurs

July 18, 2023
Bluesky’s moderation woes continue as users threaten to leave the site in protest of its failure to flag slurs in account usernames.  Many users — particularly Black users — are frustrated that Bluesky hasn’t apologized for allowing racial slurs to slip through its moderation tools even though they violate the platform’s community guidelines. It’s the […]

Rice Robotics picks up $7M, powers SoftBank’s office delivery

July 18, 2023
In the crowded enterprise robotics space, the ability to secure key clients is a crucial differentiator for companies. In the case of Hong Kong-based Rice Robotics, the important order has come from SoftBank. Since January 2021, Rice’s robots, with their cute, cartoonish blinking eyes, have been delivering 7-Eleven products to Softbank staff at the company’s […]

Peacock to raise its subscription prices on August 17

July 18, 2023
Peacock is delivering bad news to its subscribers tonight. Beginning at 12 a.m. ET, the streamer is notifying existing customers that it’s raising its subscription prices on August 17. The change will affect new customers immediately. This will be the first time Peacock has experienced a price hike since its launch. Users will have to […]

Isometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal

July 17, 2023
Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turning it into something less harmful — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more collectively agreed to pump $1 billion into funding removal startups. Today, a London startup called […]

How to Prepare for Switching to Medicare

July 17, 2023
When people retire, they lose their employer-sponsored health insurance. But as long as they don’t retire before age 65, most people should have access to Medicare. Medicare is the federal…