December 29, 2025

Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener

Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh. It’s among many harms posed by a garment sector that was once synonymous with tragedy: In 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring…

NASA spends $45M to seed tech from hundreds of space businesses

June 7, 2023

Hundreds of small aerospace businesses will receive grant funding from NASA to accelerate their technologies, as part of a wider government program to seed cutting-edge American enterprises. A total of 249 small businesses and 39 research institutions received Phase I grants under the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer […]

NASA spends $45M to seed tech from hundreds of space businesses by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon Pay taps Affirm to be its first buy now, pay later player

June 7, 2023

Affirm has become the first buy now, pay later player to be added to Amazon Pay, the two companies announced today. As part of the new partnership, any Amazon Pay merchants in the U.S. can now choose to offer their customers the option to “buy now, pay later” using Affirm’s technology. Merchants who offer Amazon Pay […]

Amazon Pay taps Affirm to be its first buy now, pay later player by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Antler branches out from pre-seed to later stage investing with $285M fund

June 7, 2023

Antler has made a name for itself with its rather trusting method of investing in founders without actually knowing what they’re founding. Now the global investment network is moving past pre-seed to A rounds and beyond with its hefty new $285M million Elevate fund. If you’re not familiar with Antler, the investment group was started […]

Antler branches out from pre-seed to later stage investing with $285M fund by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Meta to let users refuse its cross-site tracking following German antitrust intervention

June 7, 2023

Meta has been dragged kicking and screaming into another notable privacy concession in Europe: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced a new account center incoming which will see the tech giant provide users of its social networking services with a greater degree of choice over whether they allow it to combine data on […]

Meta to let users refuse its cross-site tracking following German antitrust intervention by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Business will be able to accept IDs in Apple Wallet with iOS 17, among other changes

June 7, 2023

Apple this morning announced two significant changes to Apple Wallet among a handful of other updates that didn’t make the keynote address on Monday which kicked off the start of its Worldwide Developer Conference. With the launch of iOS 17 this fall, Apple says users will be able to set up recurring payments with Apple […]

Business will be able to accept IDs in Apple Wallet with iOS 17, among other changes by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Contextual AI launches from stealth to build enterprise-focused language models

June 7, 2023

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are powerful, paradigm-shifting tools that promise to upend industries. But they suffer from limitations that make them less attractive to enterprise organizations with strict compliance and governance requirements. For example, LLMs have a tendency to make up information with high confidence, and they’re architected in a way that […]

Contextual AI launches from stealth to build enterprise-focused language models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch