July 22, 2025

Fighting forever chemicals and startup fatigue

What if we could permanently remove the toxic “forever chemicals” contaminating our water? That’s the driving force behind Michigan-based startup Enspired Solutions, founded by environmental toxicologist Denise Kay and chemical engineer Meng Wang. The duo left corporate consulting in the rearview mirror to take on one of the most pervasive environmental challenges: PFAS. “PFAS is…

Binance.US to buy Voyager Digital’s assets for $1 billion

December 19, 2022

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

December 19, 2022
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

December 19, 2022
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

December 19, 2022
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

December 19, 2022
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

December 19, 2022
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

December 19, 2022

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

WhatsApp lets you undo ‘Delete for Me’ in case you hit that button too quickly

December 19, 2022

WhatsApp has introduced a feature to undo the ‘Delete for Me’ action to save you from being potentially embarrassed over accidentally deleting a message only for you that you wanted to pull for everyone on the app. The new feature, called ‘accidental delete,’ brings a five-second window to let users reverse the action of deleting […]

WhatsApp lets you undo ‘Delete for Me’ in case you hit that button too quickly by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch