YC-backed Taxo raises $5M to slash healthcare admin with its AI ‘reasoning engine’
YC-backed startup Taxo has raised a $5m seed round to save doctors time and money on admin work.
How creativity became the reigning value of our time
Americans don’t agree on much these days. Yet even at a time when consensus reality seems to be on the verge of collapse, there remains at least one quintessentially modern value we can all still get behind: creativity. We teach it, measure it, envy it, cultivate it, and endlessly worry about its death. And why…
Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned by Trump
Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt hydrogen trucking startup Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by President Trump, the White House confirmed to TechCrunch. Milton was convicted in October 2022 of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud related to claims he made about Nikola’s progress to investors. He was […]
How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A tech company accumulates a ton of user data, hoping to figure out a business model later. That business model never arrives, the company goes under, and the data is in the wind. The latest version of that story emerged on March 24, when the onetime genetic…
Serious Golfers are Consulting This Before Every Swing
You’ve heard of smartwatches. Now, get ready for one made for golfers.
Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome
The bug fix comes days after Google fixed a similar vulnerability under attack in its Chrome browser.
The Download: peering inside an LLM, and the rise of Signal
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. Anthropic can now track the bizarre inner workings of a large language model The news: The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what…
Google rolls out user choice billing on Google Play in the UK
Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use other billing options instead of Google’s own system. The change kicks in on March 29, initially only to non-game developers. If developers opt for it, they cannot replace Google Play billing altogether. Instead, […]
Every Successful Business Solves a Pain Point — Does Yours?
Solving pain points isn’t just a path to business success; it’s the foundation. Here’s how to get started.
“Spare” living human bodies might provide us with organs for transplantation
This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or feel pain. In the piece, a trio of scientists argue that advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to create “spare” human bodies that could be used for research, or to provide organs for donation. If you find your skin…
Krafton acquires controlling stake in Indian gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M
Krafton, known for its titles PUBG and BGMI, has acquired a controlling stake in 12-year-old Indian mobile gaming studio Nautilus Mobile.