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

Flush with Series A funding, Daye unwraps the big gynae health mission

October 26, 2022

Talking to Valentina Milanova, the still just 28-year-old founder of U.K. femtech Daye, is best described as an exhilarating experience. During our interview, she talks in and around her topic — building a startup supporting women’s sexual and reproductive health — non-stop for the best part of an hour, barely pausing for breath and without […]

Flush with Series A funding, Daye unwraps the big gynae health mission by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Apple exec says future iPhones will comply with EU’s USB-C mandate

October 26, 2022

There has been a lot of consumer demand and regulatory push on Apple to change the iPhone’s charging port from the lightning connector to USB-C. Earlier this month, the European Parliament voted in favor of the legislation that mandated phonemakers to adopt USB-C connectors from 2024 — increasing pressure on the tech giant to make […]

Apple exec says future iPhones will comply with EU’s USB-C mandate by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks

October 26, 2022
“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But at the end of four years, it also gave me self-confidence to go forward in the world.” Doc Edgerton’s legacy. Alan, who went on to a successful career of leadership roles…

Dynamic duo

October 26, 2022
Robert Downey Jr. got to wear Iron Man’s suit playing fictional MIT alum Tony Stark on the big screen. But he marveled at what he called “real-world technology miracles” when he met up with Professor Hugh Herr, who coleads MIT’s K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, in July. Downey serves on the center’s executive advisory…

Building the next version of the internet

October 26, 2022
Kirin Sinha ’14 remembers the first time she worked with augmented reality (AR) as a student at MIT. With a friend and fellow engineer, she built the Ironman desk—a computer system and AI technology that uses holographic projections controlled by hand movements and voice commands. Today, she is the founder and CEO of Illumix, a…