Heck, might as well put the back of your phone to work

February 25, 2024

The back of your phone is useless. There. I said it. Sure, the cameras are back that, but what about all of that blank real estate monopolizing 90% of the surface area? Honestly, it needs to start carry its weight around here. A fully functioning screen isn’t the answer, however. That’s a lot more battery […]

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Europe remains hard to crack for North American GPs

February 25, 2024

While North American VCs can see the potential value in backing European startups, it hasn’t been easy for firms to launch strategies.

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The era of cheap helium is over—and that’s already causing problems

February 25, 2024
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for the future from our past coverage of technology.  In the nuclear magnetic resonance facility at Mississippi State University, three powerful magnets make it possible to see how atoms form bonds. Chemists there use the technology to design new polymers…

Google releases new open LLMs, Rivian lays off staff and Signal rolls out usernames

February 24, 2024

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launched two new open large language models, Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, in its continued bid for generative AI dominance. The company, which describes the LLMs as “inspired by Gemini,” its flagship family of GenAI […]

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