November 7, 2024

What’s next for reproductive rights in the US

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Earlier this week, Americans cast their votes in a seminal presidential election. But it wasn’t just the future president of the US that was on the ballot. Ten…

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of staff

October 6, 2022

Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes. […]

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of staff by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Sub-Optimus

October 6, 2022

I sat out Friday’s big Tesla AI event. I was actually looking forward to seeing what the company had cooked up after months of teasing, but a combination of rogue stomach virus and the most inconvenient event timing (Friday at 9:15 PM EDT) outside of something held on the other side of the world meant […]

Sub-Optimus by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information

October 6, 2022

Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice this week, Ro said it discovered that the contractor uploaded the […]

Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: part of its own profits

October 6, 2022

Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an […]

A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: part of its own profits by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

The Startup Battlefield 200: Climate tech and health tech edition

October 6, 2022

We think you’ll be as amazed as we are by the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October […]

The Startup Battlefield 200: Climate tech and health tech edition by Neesha A. Tambe originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s edit button will reach all US subscribers by end of today

October 6, 2022

Just a few days after Twitter said its new “Edit” button would launch to its paying subscribers in select markets, the company today announced the feature would begin to roll out to its U.S. audience through its Twitter Blue subscription. Previously, the edit button was being made available to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and […]

Twitter’s edit button will reach all US subscribers by end of today by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch