February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]

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GlobalFair secures new cash to simplify procuring construction materials

October 20, 2022

The construction materials market is fragmented, according to GlobalFair CEO Shaily Garg, because it involves layers of both supply chain and logistics complexities. In a 2021 survey for the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo, the vast majority of builders said that the time it takes to obtain materials — and the cost […]

GlobalFair secures new cash to simplify procuring construction materials by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Bill Gates’s energy venture fund is expanding into climate adaptation and later-stage investments

October 20, 2022
Bill Gates’s climate-oriented venture capital fund is expanding its mission, adding adaptation to its investment categories and establishing a later-stage fund to help clean-tech startups begin building plants and scaling up their technologies. The announcement came at the end of the firm’s Breakthrough Energy Summit in Seattle on Wednesday. To date, Breakthrough has been focused…

Why scientists want to help plants capture more carbon dioxide

October 20, 2022
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Hello hello!  This week in The Spark, we’re taking a look back at one of my favorite sessions from our ClimateTech conference last week, from a chapter we called “Cleaning Your Plate.”  In…

Survey finds 67% of European women in tech feel under-paid compared to men, half experience sexism

October 20, 2022

Last month, on International Equal Pay Day, the International Labour (ILO) Organization revealed that on average, women globally are paid about 20 percent less than men. This pay gap is even bigger for Black and Hispanic women, where Black women were found to earn over 63% less than white men, and Hispanic or Latina women […]

Survey finds 67% of European women in tech feel under-paid compared to men, half experience sexism by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Reliance launches JioBook, its maiden Android-powered laptop

October 20, 2022

Jio Platforms has quietly launched its first laptop, entering into a new product category as the Indian telecom giant aggressively expands its offerings. The laptop, called JioBook, runs JioOS, a custom Android-based OS that has been “optimized for superior performance” and local languages support. The laptop, manufactured in India, is selling at 15,799 Indian rupees, […]

Reliance launches JioBook, its maiden Android-powered laptop by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Android Go for entry-level phones is now on 250 million devices

October 20, 2022

Five years after Google released the first version of Android Go, its mobile operating system for entry-level devices, the program has now amassed over 250 million monthly active devices. That’s up from 200 million Android Go monthly active devices milestone that Google shared in December last year. To mark the occasion, the search giant has […]

Google’s Android Go for entry-level phones is now on 250 million devices by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch