December 26, 2025

MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025

It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…

Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts

April 3, 2023

Twitter was supposed to ceremoniously remove legacy verification checkmarks on April 1. While it appears to have put those plans on hold for now, the Elon Musk-led social network has revised the label attached to the check mark to make it virtually impossible to differentiate between those who earned it and all who paid for it. […]

Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

AI startup Fourthline locks down $54M to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector

April 3, 2023

As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack into those valuable systems — and so too do the efforts of regulators to build better structures to avoid that abuse. To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built […]

AI startup Fourthline locks down $54M to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Difference Between Recession and Depression

April 3, 2023
If you lived through the 2008 recession, you know how painful recessions can be. Even if you didn’t personally lose your job or home, you likely knew more than one…

¿Un banco hecho a la medida de las startups?

April 3, 2023
En un año difícil para el levantamiento de capital por parte de las startups, BBVA Spark sale al ataque en México para ayudar a los emprendimientos innovadores a escalar.