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…

Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform

March 21, 2023

Organizations dealing with large amounts of data often struggle to ensure that data remains high-quality. According to a survey from Great Expectations, which creates open source tools for data testing, 77% of companies have data quality issues and 91% believe that it’s impacting their performance. In light of that, unsurprisingly, business has been quite healthy […]

Sifflet raises cash to expand its data observability platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

March 21, 2023

Wingtra’s drones are used to perform surveying missions by organizations around the world, including NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Now the startup is mapping out a new expansion strategy after landing $22 million in Series B funding, which it will use to improve its current tech and add new features. “Our product roadmap […]

Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany

March 21, 2023

In its latest piece of strategic litigation, the precision-punching European privacy rights campaign group noyb has used data donated by users of the ‘Who Targets me‘ browser extension, which analyzes political microtargeting on Facebook, to build a case against every political party in Germany — for what it alleges is unlawful processing of voters’ personal […]

Facebook political microtargeting at center of GDPR complaints in Germany by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable

March 21, 2023

French startup Roundtable has raised a $3.2 million (€3 million) funding round from a hundred business angels. That’s quite a large group of individual investors — but that’s because Roundtable runs an angel investment platform for European startups. Backed by eFounders, the company takes care of the administrative, legal and financial processes involved with startup […]

Roundtable raises funding round on Roundtable by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware

March 21, 2023

On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware, alerting users who had them installed, and suspended the company’s official app. In the last couple of weeks, multiple Chinese security researchers accused Pinduoduo, a rising e-commerce giant that boasts almost 800 million active users, of making […]

Google flags apps made by popular Chinese e-commerce giant as malware by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

India won’t tolerate abusive, obscene content on streaming services, minister warns

March 21, 2023

India will not tolerate use of abusive language in movies and TV shows on on-demand video streaming services, a key minister has warned in a move that illustrates how the nation’s IT rules have “handed over direct ministerial power for censorship.” Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of Information Broadcasting and Sports and Youth Affairs, said at […]

India won’t tolerate abusive, obscene content on streaming services, minister warns by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Duolingo is working on a music app

March 20, 2023

Duolingo, a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The Pittsburgh-based tech company currently has a small team working on a music product and is hiring a learning scientist who is an “expert in music education who combines both theoretical knowledge of relevant learning science […]

Duolingo is working on a music app by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch