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Ten billion. That’s how many commercially procurable molecules are available today. Start looking at them in groups of five — the typical combination used to make…

It is too early to tell how long the Israel-Hamas war may last, but it is likely to make democracies’ need for defense tech even clearer.
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Why would a VC firm want to own its own healthcare system? Why would it want that stress or such a costly asset when it could…

In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered a much-needed break for Disney’s…

Parents have been stressing out for at least two decades about what to share about their children online. Powerful new technologies present a more urgent risk….

Gaza, despite being one of the most economically challenged regions in the world, has ironically always been a tech hub — not only for Palestine and…

When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her advertise to new clients. But paying for…

Ripcord, a startup developing robots that can automatically digitize paper records, is hoping to raise $20 million to $25 million in a new funding round that…

Social media is full of false and misleading posts. The rise in A.I. is making it worse. And the trust in traditional news sources has declined….

Trezor, a hardware crypto wallet company, debuted two new products this week at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference — and we got to take a first look…

Synapse and Evolve addressed allegations that claimed the companies were at odds with each other after Evolve decided to end the relationship.
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Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping…