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Bangladesh’s garment-making industry is getting greener
Pollution from textile production—dyes, chemicals, and heavy metals like lead and cadmium—is common in the waters of the Buriganga River as it runs through Dhaka, Bangladesh. It’s among many harms posed by a garment sector that was once synonymous with tragedy: In 2013, the eight-story Rana Plaza factory building collapsed, killing 1,134 people and injuring…
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff)
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s resignation was a shock, and it’s safe to say that few if any saw this coming — even his mentor, Marc Benioff.
No one seemed to see Bret Taylor stepping away from Salesforce (even Marc Benioff) by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Google’s latest Doodle lets you create your own mini arcade game
Today’s Google Doodle lets you make, play and share your own mini arcade game to honor the memory of videogame pioneer Jerry Lawson. Lawson led the team that developed the first home video gaming system with interchangeable game cartridges. Today would have been his 82nd birthday. The interactive Doodle starts off by taking you through […]
Google’s latest Doodle lets you create your own mini arcade game by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues
The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they […]
Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack
Firefox developer Mozilla is making a rare foray into the world of mergers and acquisitions, with news that it has snapped up recently-shuttered California-based productivity startup Pulse. Terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed, but the deal is tantamount to an “acqui-hire,” with Mozilla looking to deploy the Pulse team across an array of machine […]
Mozilla acquires the team behind Pulse, an automated status updater for Slack by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators
Up.Labs thinks its pitch to founding teams is attractive: It has a known problem, a customer waiting, and capital to help get things going.
How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
LinkedIn rolls out focused inbox and messaging safety tools as it gets to grip with spam and scams
LinkedIn, the social platform for the working world for networking and recruitment, hasn’t been the biggest name in headlines when it comes to how social media is leveraged for spam, scams and fake news, but they’re all significant problems on the platform that will only get bigger as traffic grows (as it’s doing currently, at […]
LinkedIn rolls out focused inbox and messaging safety tools as it gets to grip with spam and scams by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Frore secures $100M, collabs with Intel to create a new way to cool processors
One of the top problems facing device manufacturers today is overheating hardware. The chips inside PCs generate heat, which — when allowed to build up — majorly hurts performance. Cooling is less of a challenge when space isn’t at a premium. But as the marketplace pushes for ever-thinner notebooks and so-called ultraportables, manufacturers are being […]
Frore secures $100M, collabs with Intel to create a new way to cool processors by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: Neuralink updates, and GPT-3 fixes
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. Elon Musk’s Neuralink hopes to test its brain implant in a human next year Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink is planning to test a brain implant in humans in six months, the…
Lumen raises $62M for its handheld weight loss hardware
Losing weight sucks. It’s a deeply invidualized experience that’s bogged down by all sorts of societal expectations and fly-by-night promises. Many have amassed fortunes promising silver bullet solutions, all knowing full well that there isn’t any one-size-fits-all solution. The promise at the heart of Lumen’s offering is a personalized health solution, based on individual metabolism. […]
Lumen raises $62M for its handheld weight loss hardware by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch