July 9, 2025

The Download: a conversation with Karen Hao, and how did life begin?

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 OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, journalist and author Karen Hao recently spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams…

KuCoin and Circle back Chinese yuan-pegged stablecoin in $10M round

March 15, 2023

Circle, the issuer behind the popular U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC, has invested in an offshore Chinese yuan-backed stablecoin project, CNHC. It’s hard to overlook the timing and strategic significance of the tie-up. In a matter of several years, stablecoins have grown from a fringe category into a more than $130 billion market. These digital coins […]

KuCoin and Circle back Chinese yuan-pegged stablecoin in $10M round by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

The trailer for “BlackBerry” just dropped, and you have to watch it

March 15, 2023

Everyone has a story about their first BlackBerry. But no one cares if you had a 6230, Bold 9700, or, 7130e. They were groundbreaking phones for a time, and this upcoming movie gives a backstory. It stars Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton, and I think it answers why the BlackBerry service used to crash all […]

The trailer for “BlackBerry” just dropped, and you have to watch it by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer

March 15, 2023

The U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget — delivered on the same day that teachers, transportation workers, civil servants and others were on strike across the country — sought to strike a note of its own: optimism in the face of many signals to the contrary. With the U.K. narrowly predicted to […]

UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Snapchat adds new parental controls that block ‘sensitive’ and ‘suggestive’ content from viewing by teens

March 15, 2023

Snapchat launched parental controls on its app last year through the new ‘Family Center’ feature. Today, the company announced through a post on its online Privacy and Safety Hub it will now add content filtering capabilities that will allow parents to restrict teens from being exposed to content identified as sensitive or suggestive. To enable […]

Snapchat adds new parental controls that block ‘sensitive’ and ‘suggestive’ content from viewing by teens by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch