Worldcoin says it’s filing legal challenge to Spain’s temporary ban

March 8, 2024

A German subsidiary involved in Sam Altman’s controvercial crypto blockchain digital identity business, Worldcoin, was reported Friday to have filed a legal challenge against a suspension order from Spain’s data protection authority. Earlier this week it emerged that the Spanish authority, the AEPD, had instructed Worldcoin to temporarily stop scanning people’s eyeballs or further processing […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Baron values Swiggy at $12.16B, above prior private market valuation

March 8, 2024

Baron Capital, an investor in Indian food delivery startup Swiggy, has increased the value of its stake in the Indian firm, implying a valuation of $12.16 billion, surpassing the $10.7 billion post-money valuation at which Swiggy secured funding in early 2022. New York-based Baron Capital disclosed in new fillings that it has marked up the […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

X allows Premium+ users and organizations to publish articles

March 8, 2024

X announced a new long-form post format called Articles today. The feature, which is only available to Premium+ subscribers and verified organizations, lets users publish posts with text formatting, other X posts, and embedded videos and images — akin to a post on a WordPress-like content management system or an article on Medium. https://t.co/dlJ6rIEONa — […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A plan to bring down drug prices could threaten America’s technology boom

March 8, 2024
Forty years ago, Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was full of deserted warehouses and dying low-tech factories. Today, it is arguably the center of the global biotech industry.  During my 30 years in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office, I witnessed this transformation firsthand, and I know it was no accident. Much of it was the direct…

The many uses of mini-organs

March 8, 2024
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week I wrote about a team of researchers who managed to grow lung, kidney, and intestinal organoids from fetal cells floating around in the amniotic…

Apple launches VisionOS 1.1. with improved personas

March 8, 2024

Apple released VisionOS 1.1 on Thursday with the most notable feature being improved personas of users. Specifically, the new update improves hair and makeup appearance, neck and mouth representation, and rendering of the eyes for EyeSight, which lets others see your eyes when you’re wearing the headset. Additionally, users can also now set up their […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Sea’s Free Fire India relaunch in limbo six months on

March 8, 2024

Sea is “still making changes” and has yet to launch its popular mobile game Free Fire in India, more than six months after announcing plans to do so. Yanjun Wang, Group Chief Corporate Officer at Sea, said during the earnings call this week that the Singapore-headquartered giant is still making changes to the game to […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

India’s smartwatch market in flux as unknown brands challenge heavyweights

March 8, 2024

India’s smartwatch market has transformed, seemingly overnight. For years, it has been dominated by its homegrown players, while global giants like Apple and Samsung have struggled for presence, amid the hundreds of millions of annual shipments. Suddenly, however, the category has been flooded with unknown brands, which have no prior and significant existence. These have […]

© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.