February 6, 2025

What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated…

Nudge Security emerges from stealth to tackle cybersecurity’s people problem

October 13, 2022

Social engineering attacks are on the rise. These low-tech but high-impact attacks — where hackers manipulate employees into granting them access to companies’ services and data — increased by almost threefold last year, and have so far this year claimed several high-profile victims, from Twilio and Mailchimp to Revolut, and most recently Uber. As these […]

Nudge Security emerges from stealth to tackle cybersecurity’s people problem by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users

October 13, 2022

Data engineers have a big problem. Almost every team in their business needs access to analytics and other information that can be gleaned from their data warehouses, but only a few have technical backgrounds. Redbird was created to help everyone in an organization create and run analytics without using code, therefore reducing the amount of […]

Analytics operating system Redbird makes data more accessible to non-technical users by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Vedantu acquires majority stake in Deeksha for $40 million in offline push

October 13, 2022

Indian edtech Vedantu has acquired a majority stake in education chain Deeksha for $40 million, the latest in local online learning platforms’ growing attempts at tapping opportunities in the offline market. The Bengaluru-headquartered Vedantu, which became a unicorn last year, said it will integrate its technology into offline centers of Deeksha as part of the […]

Vedantu acquires majority stake in Deeksha for $40 million in offline push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

MoKo, Kenya’s home furniture startup, raises $6.5M

October 13, 2022

Kenya has the largest and most thriving furniture industry in East Africa, but the sector’s potential is hindered by several challenges among them production inefficiencies and quality concerns, forcing most major retailers to settle on imports. MoKo Home + Living, a Kenya-based home furniture manufacturer and omnichannel retailer, saw this gap and over several years […]

MoKo, Kenya’s home furniture startup, raises $6.5M by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

The messy morality of letting AI make life-and-death decisions

October 13, 2022
In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide” to some—is overseeing the last few rounds of testing on his new Sarco machine before shipping it to Switzerland, where he says its first user is waiting.  This is the third prototype that Nitschke’s nonprofit, Exit International, has…

Zen Educate, a marketplace that matches schools with teachers, raises $21M to fuel U.S. expansion

October 13, 2022

Zen Educate, an online marketplace that algorithmically matches schools with the best available teachers, has raised £19.3 million ($21 million) in a Series A extension round of funding. Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and […]

Zen Educate, a marketplace that matches schools with teachers, raises $21M to fuel U.S. expansion by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

October 13, 2022

Focused on Southeast Asia, Ayoconnect’s APIs make it faster for businesses to launch new financial services, instead of needing to build their own tech infrastructure. It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round […]

Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Truth Social debuts in the Google Play Store

October 13, 2022

Though it’s been available for the iPhone for months, Truth Social is now listed in Google’s app marketplace for the first time. Axios first reported Wednesday that Truth Social, former President Trump’s social network, cleared the necessary hurdles to get approval from Google. The app became available on Android shortly after and is now live […]

Truth Social debuts in the Google Play Store by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

An ‘ambitious’ new D&D game is on the way from Invoke Studios, formerly Tuque Games

October 13, 2022

There’s a new D&D video game on the way from the Montreal studio formerly known as Tuque Games. Wizards of the Coast, which publishes Dungeons & Dragons, has relaunched the Canadian game developer as Invoke Studios — a revamped company with a focus on crafting big games out of the considerable source material that comes […]

An ‘ambitious’ new D&D game is on the way from Invoke Studios, formerly Tuque Games by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch