June 17, 2025

Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy

Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.

3 Best Stocks to Own for Passive Income in 2023

March 3, 2023
The Fed is expected to keep hiking rates to achieve its target inflation rate. Amid rising volatility, investor sentiment toward dividend investing has been improving. Here are three quality dividend-paying…

India’s central bank slaps penalty on Amazon’s payments unit

March 3, 2023

India’s central bank has slapped Amazon Pay’s India unit with a fine of over $373,300 for non-compliance with local guidelines surrounding know your customer and prepaid payment instruments norms. The Reserve Bank of India said in a statement (PDF) that Amazon Pay (India) was non-compliant with certain provisions of the guidelines on prepaid payment instruments […]

India’s central bank slaps penalty on Amazon’s payments unit by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

4 Stocks You’ll Be Glad You Bought in 2023

March 3, 2023
While inflation showed signs of slowing, it is still far from the Fed’s target. Moreover, a tight labor market strengthens the case for higher rate hikes. Hence, fundamentally strong stocks…

Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million

March 3, 2023

Japanese marketing tech firm Geniee, part of the SoftBank Group, has paid about $70 million in cash to acquire the revenue optimization platform Zelto (formerly known as AdPushup), a person familiar with the matter said, delivering 40 times return to a number of angel investors in the startup that began its journey in India. The […]

Japan’s Geniee acquires AdPushup-operator Zelto for $70 million by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The idea of using a “three-parent baby” technique for infertility just got a boost

March 3, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. This week, I’ve been working on a big story about a controversial treatment that creates babies with three genetic parents. The “three-parent baby” technique was thought to help parents avoid passing diseases…

A technique called Cell Painting could speed drug discovery

March 3, 2023
One of the earliest stages in the process of identifying a potential new drug is to expose cells to the compound in a lab dish and scour microscope images to see the effects. Biologists who do this work tend to focus on a few select features that could indicate the drug is working—a cluster of…

The inside story of how ChatGPT was built from the people who made it

March 3, 2023
When OpenAI launched ChatGPT, with zero fanfare, in late November 2022, the San Francisco–based artificial-intelligence company had few expectations. Certainly, nobody inside OpenAI was prepared for a viral mega-hit. The firm has been scrambling to catch up—and capitalize on its success—ever since. It was viewed in-house as a “research preview,” says Sandhini Agarwal, who works…