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. Introducing: The Mortality Issue From the moment you’re born, the one thing you can be completely certain of is that you will die. But what if aging isn’t […]
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Atlanta-based ConnexPay, which integrates incoming user payments with supplier payments in one platform, raised $110M from FTV Capital for European expansion (Keerthi Vedantam/Crunchbase News)
Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News:Atlanta-based ConnexPay, which integrates incoming user payments with supplier payments in one platform, raised $110M from FTV Capital for European expansion — Fintech platform ConnexPay announced on Tuesday it received $110 million in growth investment led by FTV Capital to expand the company beyond the U.S. […]
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Sony A7R V
The Sony A7R V is a 61MP full-frame powerhouse with some powerful new autofocus features. Is it a Canon EOS R5 killer?
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Apple releases patch for iPhone and iPad 0-day reported by anonymous source
Freshly released iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16 also fix 19 other vulnerabilities.
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Alan ’72 and Joan Henricks
“MIT was a very humbling experience for me,” says Alan Henricks, one of the first generation in his Midwestern family to attend college. “But at the end of four years, it also gave me self-confidence to go forward in the world.” Doc Edgerton’s legacy. Alan, who went on to a […]
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Square’s parent company Block sells access to customers’ email addresses used to receive receipts, which experts say falls short of best privacy practices (Ben Brody/Protocol)
Ben Brody / Protocol:Square’s parent company Block sells access to customers’ email addresses used to receive receipts, which experts say falls short of best privacy practices — When COVID-19 forced Compass Coffee to close down its Washington, D.C.-area shops, the roastery’s owners turned to email to stay in touch with […]
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Motorola Razr 2022
Motorola’s third foldable Razr is unquestionably its best yet, but this folding clamshell doesn’t operate in a vacuum.
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Comcast’s new higher upload speeds require $25-per-month xFi Complete add-on
10Mbps uploads become 100Mbps—but only with xFi Complete hardware rental plan.
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Do AI systems need to come with safety warnings?
To receive The Algorithm in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Welcome to The Algorithm! Considering how powerful AI systems are, and the roles they increasingly play in helping to make high-stakes decisions about our lives, homes, and societies, they receive surprisingly little formal scrutiny. That’s starting to change, thanks to […]
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Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, which provides data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, has raised a €22M Series A led by Lee Fixel’s Addition (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu:Barcelona-based Seqera Labs, which provides data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences, has raised a €22M Series A led by Lee Fixel’s Addition — Providing critical support in the fight against Covid-19, data orchestration and workflow software for life sciences startup …