Incooling is building servers that use liquid to cool down

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The way Incooling CEO Helena Samodurova sees it, the IT world is experiencing two major crises: an energy crisis and a supply chain crisis. For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. At the same time, acquiring improved, less power-sucking machines is becoming tougher … Read more

Detect fraudulent transactions using machine learning with Amazon SageMaker

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Businesses can lose billions of dollars each year due to malicious users and fraudulent transactions. As more and more business operations move online, fraud and abuses in online systems are also on the rise. To combat online fraud, many businesses have been using rule-based fraud detection systems. However, traditional fraud detection systems rely on a … Read more

Pinterest is bringing popular music to Idea Pins, its TikTok-like feature

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Pinterest’s TikTok-esque Idea Pins will now feature popular music. | Image: Pinterest Pinterest is doubling down on its TikTok-style video feature by adding more music options through deals with record labels. The company announced deals today that will allow Pinterest users to add popular music to their video posts, called Idea Pins. The record labels … Read more

Minerva Lithium uses absorbent material to change the way we extract lithium

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The electric everything revolution is here, and with it an unprecedented demand for critical battery materials. The most precious of all? Lithium, the crucial ingredient in the lithium-ion batteries that will power everything from your Tesla to your iPhone.  The problem is, extracting lithium is expensive, time-consuming, labor intensive and takes a serious toll on … Read more

Netflix’s whimsical The School for Good and Evil is worth the price of admission

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Sofia Wylie as Agatha, Michelle Yeoh as Professor Anemone, and Kerry Washington as Professor Dovey. | Image: Gilles Mingasson / Netflix So long as there are literate young people trudging their way to school every morning, there’s always going to be an appetite for stories asking “what if the educational system, but magical?” That’s exactly … Read more

Singapore’s Skills Union wants to close the skills gap via live video training

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The digital landscape is evolving so fast that one’s four-year degree can hardly keep up with the myriad platforms and APIs emerging every day. That’s why Skills Union wants to connect tech startup workers looking to level up with an array of field-specific experts over live video. Online professional training isn’t new; it’s not uncommon … Read more

Ally is building a dead-simple, no-code robot arm

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“Both my dad and mom had their own business,” Ally Robotics founder and CEO Mitch Tolson tells TechCrunch. “My mom had a sign company. Every single weekend and nights during the week, I was installing neon signs, welding up frames, digging trenches, holes for electrical, all of it.” The executive says those formative years on … Read more

Uber wants to annoy riders with its own version of taxi TV

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Forget your peaceful Uber ride — the ride-hailing service just announced it’s testing in-car tablets dedicated to displaying ads during your trip. The company’s, thankfully, not rolling out the program widely yet; it’s only piloting it in San Francisco and Los Angeles to start. So far, Uber says … Read more

Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Ventures takes its first outside investment from J.P. Morgan

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Hartbeat Ventures is taking in its first institutional investment from J.P. Morgan, comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Hart announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt. He made the announcement alongside J.P. Morgan’s head of digital investment banking and digital private markets Michael Elanjian and Hartbeat Ventures’ president and co-founder Robert Roman. Hartbeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with … Read more

Biden administration approves $2.8 billion for EV battery and mineral production in the US

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Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images The US Department of Energy is awarding $2.8 billion in grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to shore up domestic battery manufacturing and mineral production, the White House announced Wednesday. The Biden administration is also launching a new government-wide initiative to strengthen supply chains to support … Read more