ChromeOS brings customization for keyboard shortcuts

April 4, 2024

Google is rolling out the April update to ChromeOS users with features like the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts and mouse button actions. The update also brings improved offline text-to-speech voice support. The ChromeOS M123 update is rolling out to users over the next few days. Let’s go through these new features. The main new […]

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Why the lifetime of nuclear plants is getting longer

April 4, 2024
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Aging can be scary. As you get older, you might not be able to do everything you used to, and it can be hard to keep up with the changing times. Just…

The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment

April 4, 2024
In late March of 2017, at a small summit in Washington, DC, two Harvard professors, David Keith and Frank Keutsch, laid out plans to conduct what would have been the first solar geoengineering experiment in the stratosphere. Instead, it became the focal point of a fierce public debate over whether it’s okay to research such…

Business planning startup Pigment raises $145 million round in rare French tech megaround

April 4, 2024

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a $145 million funding round just five years after its inception. The enterprise software company offers a business planning platform so that large companies can visualize their past financial performance and forecast upcoming quarters. This funding round comes as a bit of a surprise as large rounds have been few […]

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Aerospike raises $100M for its real-time database platform to capitalize on the AI boom

April 4, 2024

NoSQL database Aerospike today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series E round led by Sumeru Equity Partners. Existing investor Alsop Louie Partners also participated in this round. In 2009, the company started as a key-value store with a focus on the adtech industry; Aerospike has since diversified its offerings quite a bit. […]

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Sachin Bansal’s fintech Navi seeks $2B valuation in its first major external fundraise

April 4, 2024

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal is in talks to raise capital for his newer startup, Indian fintech Navi. Bansal is talking to investors to raise at a valuation of around $2 billion, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. One source said he is looking for between $200 million and $400 million. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup […]

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X rolls out support for posting Community Notes in India ahead of elections

April 4, 2024

Weeks before the national elections in India, Elon Musk-owned X said it is rolling out support for posting Community Notes — the company’s crowd-sourced fact-checking program. The company posted that the first set of contributors from India will start posting notes today and more will be accepted over time. Contributors typically post more context to […]

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