June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks

January 10, 2023

IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […]

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: iRobot privacy scandal, and AI that makes images

January 10, 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. Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook When Greg unboxed a new robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into. As a…

FemTech: In a Quest For Better Female Health

January 10, 2023
The term ‘femTech’ was coined in 2016 by Danish entrepreneur Ida Tin, as a way to legitimize and drive innovation in the female health technology sector

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31

January 10, 2023

Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month. The service, which allows third-party merchants to offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps, was initially only available to those merchants who were already using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to […]

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions

January 10, 2023

Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about the Android ecosystem. Often users miss out on features of the latest Android version because they are using older devices that are no longer updated. To reduce the gap, Google has released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest […]

Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Coinbase to cut 20% jobs and abandon ‘several projects’

January 10, 2023

Coinbase plans to cut 950 jobs, or about 20% of its workforce, and shut down several projects as the U.S. crypto exchange giant looks to reduce its expenses to increase its “chances of doing well in every scenario.” This is the second round of major layoff at the crypto exchange, which eliminated 18% of its […]

Coinbase to cut 20% jobs and abandon ‘several projects’ by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

January 10, 2023

In partnership with AiFi, a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. A part of Microsoft’s Cloud for Retail product suite, Smart Store Analytics provides retailers using AiFi’s technology with shopper and operational analytics for their fleets […]

Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Tinder and other Match dating apps will offer in-app tips on avoiding romance scams

January 10, 2023

Match Group, the parent company to dating apps Tinder, Hinge, Match, Plenty of Fish, Meetic and OurTime, among others, announced today the launch of a new campaign that will introduce in-app messages and email notifications to give users tips on how to prevent being scammed online. Tinder and French online dating app Meetic will prompt […]

Tinder and other Match dating apps will offer in-app tips on avoiding romance scams by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch