The Download: building anti-aging hype, and exploring the universe with sound

June 19, 2023
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. Police got called to an overcrowded presentation on “rejuvenation” technology It’s not every day that police storm through the doors of a scientific session and eject half the audience. But that’s what happened…

PayGo solar startup Yellow raises $14 million to scale in africa

June 19, 2023

Yellow, an asset financier for solar energy and digital devices in Africa has raised $14 million series B funding in a round led by Convergence Partners with participation from the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund, managed by Triple Jump, in addition to follow-on investment from Platform Investment Partners. Yellow was founded and launched in Malawi in […]

PayGo solar startup Yellow raises $14 million to scale in africa by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe

June 19, 2023
In the cavernous grand ballroom of the Seattle Convention Center, Sarah Kane stood in front of an oversize computer monitor, methodically reconstructing the life history of the Milky Way. Waving her shock of long white hair as she talked (“I’m easy to spot from a distance,” she joked), she outlined the “Hunt for Galactic Fossils,”…

Five big takeaways from Europe’s AI Act

June 19, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. It was a big week in tech policy in Europe with the European Parliament’s vote to approve its draft rules for the AI Act on the same…

Fisker to enter China’s hotly contested EV market with local production plans

June 19, 2023

Fisker, the electric carmaker founded by the Danish auto designer Henrik Fisker, is gearing up to enter the Chinese market where competition is increasingly cut-throat, following in the footsteps of another brave American player Lucid. Fisker plans to open a delivery center in China this year and commence deliveries of the Fisker Ocean SUV, its […]

Fisker to enter China’s hotly contested EV market with local production plans by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit

June 19, 2023

Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company pays a ransom demand – and reverses its controversial API price hikes.  In a post on its dark web leak site, the BlackCat ransomware gang, also known as ALPHV, claims to have stolen 80 gigabytes of compressed data from Reddit during a […]

Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Y Combinator-backed Rever aims to modernize refunds and returns

June 19, 2023

Màrius Montmany and Oriol Hernandez i Fajula, former employees at large logistics companies, several years ago found themselves frustrated with the problem of “reverse logistics”  — how to get product returns through the mail system in an efficient and cost-effective way. Dissatisfied with the existing solutions out there, the pair founded Rever — now backed […]

Y Combinator-backed Rever aims to modernize refunds and returns by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch