The Download: AI paternalism in healthcare, and Nigeria’s answer to Tesla

April 21, 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. Artificial intelligence is infiltrating health care. We shouldn’t let it make all the decisions. Would you trust medical advice generated by artificial intelligence? It’s a question raised by yet more headlines this week…

The IRS is sending four investigators across the world to fight cybercrime

April 21, 2023

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to send four agents who specialize in investigating cybercrime to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany starting this summer. These four new positions represent a significant increase in the IRS’s global efforts to fight cybercrimes, such as those involving cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, and crypto laundering services. In the last several […]

The IRS is sending four investigators across the world to fight cybercrime by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch

2 Healthcare Stocks Showing Stability With A and B POWR Ratings

April 21, 2023
The healthcare industry should thrive with accelerated breakthrough developments and a growing market for telemedicine and personalized medicines. Moreover, given the lingering macroeconomic headwinds, fundamentally strong healthcare stocks, Amgen (AMGN),…

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark

April 21, 2023

As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system is causing more than a little chaos, with CEO Elon Musk himself stepping in to pay for some celebrities’ verification when they refuse to do so. However, another little nugget to emerge from the carnage today […]

Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Cloud Stocks NOW and SPLK See High Demand With Buy Ratings 

April 21, 2023
The cloud computing market is growing amid organizations investing in digitization and emerging technologies. Given the solid prospects of the industry, investors could consider adding fundamentally sound cloud stocks, ServiceNow…

This Nigerian EV entrepreneur hopes to go head to head with Tesla

April 21, 2023
Nigerians have become accustomed to long lines for gasoline and wild fluctuations in bus fares. Though the country is Africa’s largest producer of oil, its residents don’t benefit from a steady supply. Mustapha Gajibo, 30, is doing what he can to alleviate the problem: his startup, Phoenix Renewables Limited, is launching a homegrown electric-­vehicle industry in the northeastern…

Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond

April 21, 2023

Largely because of their age, houses in Europe can be notoriously hard to heat. Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it is today. With energy becoming more expensive, and energy security ratcheting-up as a geopolitical issue, tech startups looking at this problem have […]

Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M Series A to expand in Germany and beyond by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch