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…

Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s appearance a performance?

December 1, 2022

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas today with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin for a DealBook event, a discussion that his legal team “very much” did not approve of, he told Sorkin with a boyish grin. Having caught the live-streamed interview, what we’re still wondering is whether he’s credible. Throughout […]

Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s appearance a performance? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding

December 1, 2022

Badili, a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, and SOSV, participated in the round, as did family offices and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India. […]

Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch

Indian Spacetech Startups Shoot for the Skies

December 1, 2022
In November 2022 alone, startups such as Agnikul and Pixxel have had significant successes, prompting spectators to wonder what more it will take to facilitate a true space revolution in the country

Twitter is going to show you more tweets from people you don’t follow

December 1, 2022

As new Twitter owner Elon Musk tinkers around with the social network’s feature set, more algorithmic recommendations are apparently on the way. Twitter’s support account tweeted about the change on Wednesday, noting that the platform was “expanding recommendations to all users.” This is of course under the guide of giving users the “best” content (Instagram […]

Twitter is going to show you more tweets from people you don’t follow by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Indian agritech DeHaat tops $700 million valuation in $60 million funding

December 1, 2022

DeHaat, a startup that offers a wide-range of agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $60 million in a new funding round as it looks to deepen its penetration in the country and reach break-even profitability within two years. Sofina Ventures and Temasek co-led the Patna and Gurgaon-headquartered startup’s Series E funding, it said, […]

Indian agritech DeHaat tops $700 million valuation in $60 million funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

LastPass says it was breached — again

December 1, 2022

Password manager LassPass said it’s investigating a security incident after its systems were compromised for the second time this year. LastPass chief executive Karim Toubba said in a blog post that an “unauthorized party” recently gained access to some customers’ information stored in a third-party cloud service shared by LastPass and its parent company, GoTo. […]

LastPass says it was breached — again by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall

November 30, 2022

“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone, I was shocked by what happened this month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former chief executive of the fallen FTX, said at the New York Times’ annual DealBook summit in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the biggest questions around this debacle is […]

SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch