Enterprising Photographers Add a New Angle to Their Photos with these Two Drones
These drones could be instrumental to growing a photography business.
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…
Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world
Foundation Devices announced it has raised a $7 million seed round to double down on its “sovereign computing platform.”
Foundation raises $7M to return ‘sovereignty’ to a chaotic crypto world by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Binance.US to buy Voyager Digital’s assets for $1 billion
It’s been a long year for Voyager Digital. After filing for bankruptcy, the crypto lender thought it would be able to return some funds to its customers by selling its assets to FTX. As you know, things haven’t been going well at FTX either. That’s why Binance.US is stepping in today and offering to buy […]
Binance.US to buy Voyager Digital’s assets for $1 billion by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
A gallery of presidents
When Sally Kornbluth becomes MIT’s 18th president on January 1, 2023, she joins a long line of leaders that includes mathematicians, chemists, physicists, engineers, an astronomer, a neurobiologist, two Rad Lab researchers, a US Census superintendent, a dean of the Sloan School, and an editor of Technology Review—many of whom served as scientific advisors to…
Mark and Teresa Medearis
After their son Nicky ’22 broke his leg competing for the MIT indoor track team in 2019, Mark and Teresa Medearis, 3,000 miles away in California, were heartened by the outpouring of support from the MIT track community and the Division of Student Life. “We were embraced by the community when we had this adversity,”…
Turning MIT inside-out
The all-new MIT Museum opened in Kendall Square this fall, welcoming more than 13,000 visitors in its first month. The 56,000-square-foot space next to the T station offers interactive exhibits and hands-on learning labs and makerspaces. As museum director John Durant told the Boston Globe, “We’re trying to turn MIT inside-out, so that things that…
Rerouting
When I tell people that I work on getting robots to cook and do household chores, they often ask me why this is so difficult. “A child can learn to make an omelet,” they say. “Why is it so hard for a robot?” I usually tell them that they think it’s so easy because they’re…
Product designer finds engineers’ playground in Wisconsin
As the youngest of four girls, Rosalie Phillips ’21 looked up to her sisters, and everywhere they went, she went. As early as fifth grade, she recalls, she was joining her oldest sister at robotics meetings in the machine shop of a local college, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. “They would hand me…
Salon software Mangomint raises $13M as it booms in post-COVID labor shortage
Ever needed to read your credit card information on the phone to make a massage appointment? The process is annoying, and it makes you wonder how safe it is to give a stranger your personal details. That’s why Los Angeles-based Mangomint built a SaaS tool that strives to streamline the booking experience for the beauty […]
Salon software Mangomint raises $13M as it booms in post-COVID labor shortage by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms
Social collectibles platform Revel describes itself as ‘a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics.’
Revel raises $7.8M to become the Instagram and Robinhood of NFT platforms by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch