The Download: cattle’s deadly tick-borne disease, and molten salt batteries

November 17, 2022
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. A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the US In the spring of 2021, Cynthia and John Grano, who own a cattle operation in Culpeper County, Virginia, started noticing some of their…

PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives

November 17, 2022

Fake news, and the identification and eradication of it, has long been thought of as the purview of social media platforms, where a lot of that tends to be shared. Today, one of the more ambitious tech startups in the field of fighting fake news is getting acquired — not by a social media platform, […]

PR software giant Cision acquires Factmata, the fake news startup that pivoted to monitoring all kinds of online narratives by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space

November 17, 2022

The space industry is on the cusp of a revolution. The cost of launch, which has dramatically decreased over the past five years, will continue to drop as heavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship and Relativity’s Terran R become operational. Parallel to these developments, multiple private companies have introduced plans to build commercial space stations for […]

Gravitics raises $20M to make the essential units for living and working in space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Super-hot salt could be coming to a battery near you

November 17, 2022
There’s a lot going on in the climate world. Election workers are still counting and recounting votes in the US to determine control of Congress, and at the UN climate conference, delegates are heads-down in negotiations, battling over climate targets and finance agreements.  We’re still waiting for more information about what these critical moments will…

VuNet Raises $5 Million In Series A Funding

November 17, 2022
The fund raised will be used to accelerate the research and development of new AI/ML led product offerings and the expansion of global operations across India, Asia and the US

Index Ventures thinks new startups will emerge in the downturn and is putting $300M behind that bet

November 17, 2022

Back in April 8, 2021 Index Ventures, one of the very few ‘original gangsters’ of the European VC scene, said it was kind’ve going ‘back to its roots’. It announced the launch of a new $200 million dedicated seed investing vehicle dubbed ‘Index Origin’. Now, if you cast your minds back, this was during the […]

Index Ventures thinks new startups will emerge in the downturn and is putting $300M behind that bet by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

A new tick-borne disease is killing cattle in the US

November 17, 2022
In the spring of 2021, Cynthia and John Grano, who own a cattle operation and sell performance horses in Culpeper County, Virginia, started noticing some of their cows slowing down and acting “spacey.” They figured the animals were suffering from anaplasmosis, a common infectious disease that causes anemia in cattle. But Melinda McCall, their veterinarian,…

Twitter is working on a feature to divide long text into a thread automatically

November 17, 2022

Composing a thread on Twitter can be challenging as you need to separate the whole text into 280-character chunks. However, the company now seems to be working on a solution to turn long-form text into a thread automatically. According to a tweet posted by app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, twitter’s composer will automatically break the […]

Twitter is working on a feature to divide long text into a thread automatically by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Apple’s iCloud website gets a widget-styled redesign

November 17, 2022

Apple has finally launched a redesigned iCloud website with apps appearing as widget-styled tiles instead of icons. People might be used to accessing iCloud through native apps on their iPhones, iPads or Mac, but this is a welcome change for folks who use the website to quickly access some photos, documents, notes and reminders or […]

Apple’s iCloud website gets a widget-styled redesign by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch