Do Humans Have a Brain Microbiome?
The human gut microbiome plays a critical role in the body, interacting with the brain and maintaining the immune system through the gut-brain axis. So it's not totally far-fetched to suggest that microbes can play an even bigger role in our neurobiology. Fishing for Microbes For years, Irene Salinas has been fascinated by a simple physiological fact: The distance...
The hydrogen tax credit rules provide initial clarity when it comes to promoting nuclear and carbon capture
Hydrogen startups are seen by many as a promising way to phase out fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-distance transportation. But they have been stuck in limbo for the past few years, waiting for official guidance from the US Treasury on the lucrative tax credits. The wait is over today, with the Treasury announcing final rules for hydrogen...
The Video Game Industry Is Finally Getting Serious About Player Safety
By 2025, we will enter a new era of security by design for our digital toys. Online gaming is a place where billions of people around the world gather to play, socialize, and relax. However, they are also environments where harassment, hate speech, and grooming for violence and sexual exploration often occur. Today, most online gamers report being directly...
Benches are saved by the bell, and other last minute offers that close 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — a weekly recap of everything unmissable from the startup world. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Log in here. Welcome to 2025! The first half of the week was relatively quiet in terms of startup announcements, but activity has already begun. We are also preparing for CES; if your hardware startup is attending,...
The FTC ordered accessibility startup AI to pay $1M for misleading ads
The US Federal Trade Commission has fined accessiBe, a startup that claims to make websites more compatible with screen readers that blind people rely on to access the internet, for false advertising and compensating reviewers without disclosing that they sponsored the reviews. In the proposed order, the FTC would require accessiBe to pay $1 million that could be used...
Complete list of tech layoffs 2024
The complete list of all known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source link
Turo CEO: Attackers have clean records, so background checks won’t stop them
Two individuals rented a car from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used it to commit violent acts earlier this week. First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning drove into a crowd, killing at least 15. Then, an active Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas,...
Microsoft is spending $80 billion in FY’25 on data centers for AI
Microsoft has earmarked $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build data centers designed to handle artificial intelligence workloads, according to a company blog post. Specifically, the tech giant plans to build an AI-enabled data center "to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world." Of the $80 billion allocation, more than half will be spent...
From forced landings to stuffed animal heads, headhunter Peterson Conway is defense technology’s wildest powerbroker
In 2023, defense tech recruiter Peterson Conway VIII walks into the offices of nuclear fusion startup Fuse in a black suburb, wearing his distinctive cowboy hat. He picked up a new recruit Fuse and proceeded to regale her with stories from the old recruiting days. One story involved a prostitute attending a recruitment event ("not for sex," Conway explained...
Generative AI funding reaches new high in 2024
If there is any doubt, the generative AI bubble will not burst in 2024. Investments in generative AI, which includes various applications, tools and services powered by AI to generate text, images, videos, speech, music, etc., reach a new high last year. According to data from financial tracker PitchBook compiled for TechCrunch, generative AI companies worldwide will raise $56...
