July 4, 2025

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence

In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year. The Chinese technology rivaled the best of the West in terms of benchmarks, but it had been built with far less capital in far less time.  “I thought:…

1 Hot Tech Stock to Buy Before the End of February

February 21, 2023
Leading networking company Nokia (NOK) announced robust growth in the fiscal year 2022. Moreover, the company looks confident in its near-term performance. And given bullish analysts’ expectations, NOK might be…

Agtech startup Green Labs is the latest Korean startup to lay off employees 

February 21, 2023

Green Labs, a South Korean agtech startup that raised $140 million (170 billion won) Series C in January last year, is cutting a significant number of jobs. People familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch earlier rumors by local media outlets that a workforce deduction would happen. Green Labs, which now has over 650 employees, […]

Agtech startup Green Labs is the latest Korean startup to lay off employees  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

How OpenAI is trying to make ChatGPT safer and less biased

February 21, 2023
Have you been threatened by an AI chatbot yet? Over the past week it seems like almost every news outlet has tried Microsoft’s Bing AI search and found that the chatbot makes up stupid and creepy stuff. It repeatedly told a New York Times tech columnist that it “loved” him, then claimed to be “offended” by…

She’s working to make German tech more inclusive

February 21, 2023
Nakeema Stefflbauer had only lived in Berlin for a couple of years when refugees from countries such as Syria and Iraq began arriving in Germany in great numbers in 2015. A native New Yorker who was familiar with Arabic and Middle Eastern culture from her travels in the area, Stefflbauer decided to volunteer to support…

How did China come to dominate the world of electric cars?

February 21, 2023
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here. Before most people could realize the extent of what was happening, China became a world leader in making and buying EVs. And the momentum hasn’t slowed: In just the past…

These underwater cables can improve tsunami detection

February 21, 2023
The residents of Vanuatu, a clutch of islands in the South Pacific, are no strangers to flooding. The ocean floor around them is frequently shaken by tsunami-triggering earthquakes.  Some advance warning could give residents enough time to get to higher ground before tsunamis strike, saving lives. But the world’s 65 active deep-ocean buoys, which are…

AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M

February 21, 2023

AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management software startup used by dozens of airports across the world, has raised $12.6 million in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Chester, U.K., in 2019, AeroCloud says that it’s already working with Manchester and Eindhoven airports in Europe, while in the U.S. it counts Tampa International and […]

AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

India and Singapore link UPI and PayNow in cross-border payments push

February 21, 2023

India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers in a major push to disrupt the cross-border transactions between the two nations that amounts to over $1 billion each year. The linkage between the two systems went live Tuesday, the two nations’ central banks said […]

India and Singapore link UPI and PayNow in cross-border payments push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch