June 2, 2025

The Download: US climate studies are being shut down, and building cities from lava

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. The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change, according to an…

New Paris-based VC Satgana completes the first close of its €30M fund to back ClimateTech startups

October 26, 2022

While ClimateTech may be all the rage right now – and for good reasons – new VC Paris-based firm Satgana (which means “a good company” in Sanskrit) is hoping its take on the subject will gain traction. It’s now completed the first closing of a target €30m fund to back startups in areas such as […]

New Paris-based VC Satgana completes the first close of its €30M fund to back ClimateTech startups by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Drones in cities are a bad idea

October 26, 2022

It’s year five, or maybe ten, of “drones are going to revolutionize transport” and so far, we’ve got very little to show for it. Maybe it’s time to put these foolish ambitions to rest and focus on where this technology could actually do some good, rather than pad out a billionaire’s bottom line or let […]

Drones in cities are a bad idea by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Never say die

October 26, 2022
Hi. How are you? I have some news. You’re going to die. We’re all going to die.  I’ve been thinking about this not only because we’ve been putting this issue, the Mortality issue, together but also because I’ve hit one of those arbitrary milestones in life. Which is to say I turn 50 this month. …

Cars are still cars—even when they’re electric

October 26, 2022
EVs are being touted as the solution to our climate crisis—but are they? In the fall of 2021, President Joe Biden made a stop in Detroit to promote the Democrats’ infrastructure bill and the electric-vehicle rollout being touted by the administration as a key measure to address the climate crisis. But his visit showed exactly…

Everything dies, including information

October 26, 2022
Everything dies: people, machines, civilizations. Perhaps we can find some solace in knowing that all the meaningful things we’ve learned along the way will survive. But even knowledge has a life span. Documents fade. Art goes missing. Entire libraries and collections can face quick and unexpected destruction.  Surely, we’re at a stage technologically where we…

Trigo raises $100M to expand its Amazon-style cashier-free store technology

October 26, 2022

Amazon has become the pacemaker in commerce, and today a startup that’s been building technology to help retailers keep up with it in the world of physical stores is announcing some funding to expand its business. Trigo, an Israeli startup that builds technology for stores to operate cashier-free, “just walk out” experiences similar to those […]

Trigo raises $100M to expand its Amazon-style cashier-free store technology by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Singapore may soon require retail investors to take test before trading crypto, prohibit credit cards

October 26, 2022

Singapore may soon require retail investors to take a test and not use credit card payments and other forms of borrowing for trading cryptocurrencies, the central bank proposed on Wednesday in a series of stringent measures as the island nation looks to make citizens aware of the risks surrounding volatile assets. The Monetary Authority of […]

Singapore may soon require retail investors to take test before trading crypto, prohibit credit cards by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

LatticeFlow raises $12M to eliminate computer vision blind spots

October 26, 2022

LatticeFlow, a startup that was spun out of Zurich’s ETH in 2020, helps machine learning teams improve their AI vision models by automatically diagnosing issues and improving both the data and the models themselves. The company today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A funding round led by Atlantic Bridge and OpenOcean, […]

LatticeFlow raises $12M to eliminate computer vision blind spots by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch