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…

Doorstead closes on $21.5M to make sure you always have a tenant for your rental property

January 6, 2023

Doorstead, a property management startup which offers “guaranteed” rental payments to homeowners, has raised $21.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Ryan Waliany and Jennifer Bronzo started Doorstead in 2019, initially testing out its model for setting prices for rental properties on Craigslist. Over time, the company built out a pricing model through […]

Doorstead closes on $21.5M to make sure you always have a tenant for your rental property by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: what’s next for quantum computing, and hacking circadian clocks

January 6, 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. What’s next for quantum computing For years, quantum’s news cycle was dominated by headlines about record-setting systems. But this year, researchers are getting off the hype train and knuckling down to life in…

Healthifying NFTs

January 6, 2023
Despite the dire condition of India’s healthcare sector, India is making huge strides in innovating the future of health in the nation

How drugs that hack our circadian clocks might one day improve our health

January 6, 2023
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. We’ve got more than one biological clock. Beyond the one that marches onwards as we age, the circadian clock that sits in our brains keeps our bodies in rhythm. This clock helps…

What’s next for quantum computing

January 6, 2023
In 2023, progress in quantum computing will be defined less by big hardware announcements than by researchers consolidating years of hard work, getting chips to talk to one another, and shifting away from trying to make do with noise as the field gets ever more international in scope. For years, quantum computing’s news cycle was…

Indian fintech KreditBee nears $700 million valuation in new funding

January 6, 2023

Indian fintech KreditBee has raised an additional $100 million in a funding round, it said, as the lender looks to scale its business in the South Asian market. The new cash infusion is part of the larger Series D funding, which KreditBee said has now closed at $200 million. The new funding, led by Advent […]

Indian fintech KreditBee nears $700 million valuation in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung’s quarterly profit hits 8-year low amid weak demand for memory chips, smartphones

January 6, 2023

Samsung Electronics’ operating profit plummeted 69% to $3.4 billion in the quarter that ended in December to an eight-year low, according to its preliminary estimates, as the global demand for memory chips and smartphones wanes due to high inflation and slowing economy. “Amid continued external uncertainties, including a potential global economic downturn, overall earnings decreased […]

Samsung’s quarterly profit hits 8-year low amid weak demand for memory chips, smartphones by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Snap is shutting down its desktop camera app that allows users to apply filters during video calls

January 6, 2023

Snap is shutting down its camera app for the desktop that allows users to apply filters like cat ears and pirate hats on video calls. The company said on a support page that the product will be discontinued on January 25, but did not say why it was abandoning the app. Users won’t be able […]

Snap is shutting down its desktop camera app that allows users to apply filters during video calls by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch