March 14, 2025

This annual shot might protect against HIV infections

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations…

NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight

December 12, 2022

Sunday was a landmark day for both commercial and public space ventures, with NASA’s Orion capsule returning to Earth just hours after the launch of a privately funded and built lunar lander by Japanese company ispace. The two missions — the conclusion of NASA’s Artemis I and ispace’s Mission 1 — are some of the […]

NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth as ispace’s lunar lander takes flight by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Elon says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’

December 12, 2022

Twitter will remove all legacy blue checkmarks “in a few months,” according to a tweet from CEO Elon Musk. “The way in which they were given out was corrupt and nonsensical,” tweeted Musk. Before Musk bought Twitter, checkmarks were used to verify individuals and entities as active, authentic and notable accounts of interest. On Monday, the […]

Elon says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’ by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B

December 12, 2022

Snyk hasn’t been afraid to take money over the years, scoring an ever larger investment haul with each passing round, and with each one has come a correspondingly large valuation increase. This time, that particular streak ended, but Snyk snagged another $196.5 million investment with its valuation down about 12% to $7.4 billiion since its […]

Snyk scores another $196M as valuation drops 12% to $7.4B by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Meta unplugs Connectivity division, home of satellite and drone internet experiments

December 12, 2022

Meta has quietly re-absorbed the resources of its “Connectivity” division, the company confirmed. For nearly 10 years this was the home of the former Facebook’s experimental internet and telecoms efforts, from satellites (exploded) to drones (crashed) to apps (disputed) and other more traditional infrastructure (appreciated and ongoing). As first noted by Light Reading, Meta Connectivity’s […]

Meta unplugs Connectivity division, home of satellite and drone internet experiments by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success

December 12, 2022

Lensa’s AI popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, […]

AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch