February 17, 2026

The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis

When Sam Zahr first saw the gray Rolls-Royce Dawn convertible with orange interior and orange roof, he knew he’d found a perfect addition to his fleet. “It was very appealing to our clientele,” he told me. As the director of operations at Dream Luxury Rental, he outfits customers in the Detroit area looking to ride…

VC-backed boba chain Ume wants to pour into mainstream with surprise plushies

June 8, 2023

A group of teens excitedly picked up their candy-colored bubble tea from Ume in downtown Mountain View. But before they took a sip, they each peeled open the bottom of their paper cups to reveal a cute little plushie inside. “Our tea is not only pretty but also fun,” said Jiachun Li, CEO and co-founder […]

VC-backed boba chain Ume wants to pour into mainstream with surprise plushies by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: carbon-capturing super trees, and DeepMind’s sorting breakthrough

June 8, 2023
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 the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees” Biotech startup Living Carbon is trying to design trees that grow faster and grab more carbon than their natural peers, as well as trees that…

3 Foreign Oil Stocks to Buy for Value

June 8, 2023
Despite macroeconomic headwinds, strong global oil demand and constrained supply as Saudi signaled more output cuts could likely boost oil prices this year. Amid this, fundamentally strong foreign oil stocks…

LinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies

June 8, 2023

Weeks after Meta launched a suite of generative AI-based tools to help advertisers create different campaigns, LinkedIn has introduced its own tool to suggest different copies of an ad. The company said that it uses data from a marketer’s LinkedIn page and Campaign Manager setting including objective, targeting criteria, and audience to suggest different introductory […]

LinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel

June 8, 2023

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Pigment wants to take on Microsoft Excel and offer a business planning platform that works better than products from enterprise software behemoths, such as Oracle or SAP. It’s a new take on a critical product for […]

Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

10 Best YouTube Channels for Finance

June 8, 2023
Over the last couple of decades, technology has gifted us with various platforms that offer convenient access to knowledge about anything under the sun. Of all these platforms, YouTube stands…

This unlikely fuel could power cleaner trucks and ships

June 8, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Last Friday, I hoisted myself up a ladder and plopped down into the seat of a bright green John Deere tractor. There wasn’t a cornstalk or a soybean sprout in sight—my view…