Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool

Peanut, a social networking app for women, is launching a new feature to help users track their pregnancies. The new Peanut Track tool leverages seven years of data from questions asked on the social network and uses AI to anticipate questions that women have during different stages of their pregna

Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO

Table Space, an Indian managed workspace provider, is targeting a valuation of $2.5 billion or more for an IPO planned for next year, sources familiar with the matter told technewss. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup has hired Axis as a bookrunner for the IPO, the sources said.

Rerail is a new fintech-focused angel fund from Cocoa's Anthony Danon

If you're starting a fintech company, there's a new, small, early-stage fund looking for investment opportunities. Founded by Anthony Danon (pictured above), Rerail could be called a micro-fund, a solo GP fund, or an angel fund. Danon has been an investor for the past 10 years. He started

Constellation Technologies & Operations wants to work with telecom operators to deliver 5G internet from space

The telecom industry is undergoing its greatest period of disruption since the telegraph, as companies work to open up space as the next frontier for communications. French startup Constellation hopes to take part by repurposing 5G tech to provide a Starlink-like satellite broadband that uses telec

SpaceX successfully catches returning Starship booster

For the first time, SpaceX not only launched its mammoth Starship, but also returned the booster to the launch site and caught it with a pair of oversized “chopsticks.” This test flight — the fifth in the Starship development program — took place Sunday morning at the company'

The original source code for Backyard Baseball is long gone. Mega Cat Studios remastered the game anyway.

Backyard Baseball 1997 is back in all of its nostalgic glory, sliding onto Steam like Pablo Sanchez when he steals a base. But before Mega Cat Studios could remaster the cult favorite PC game, founder James Deighan had to sift through almost 30 years of detritus. Playground Productions, a children

Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups

The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck. Startups are looking t

This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home

It's hard to know where to focus when speaking to Christoph Kohstall. The contents of his packed Palo Alto garage compete for attention. To his immediate right stands a tower of electrical components, dotted with flashing lights. To his left is a workbench and the tops of machining tools. A re

How a medtech market opportunity is shaping up for wearable neurotech

When you think of brain-stimulating medtech, startups building wearables as therapeutics probably aren’t the first thing that springs to mind. Such tech is still flying fairly under the radar — perhaps, in part, because these sorts of companies have raised a fraction of the investment t

In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plug-in

The dispute between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a plug-in developed by WP Engine. Specifically, Advanced Custom Fields — a plug-in making it easier for WordPress users to customize their edit

The most interesting unicorns to come out of Japan

Japan’s startup sector, despite being one of the biggest in the world, has lagged behind other regions like the U.S., China, and the U.K., in terms of the number of unicorns and the scale of venture capital investment. For years, an aging population, overall economic deflation, and salarymen&

‘Chat control’: The EU’s controversial CSAM-scanning legal proposal explained

The European Union has a longstanding reputation for strong privacy laws. But a legislative plan to combat child abuse — which the bloc formally presented back in May 2022 — is threatening to downgrade the privacy and security of hundreds of millions of regional messaging app users. The Europ

How do you solve a problem like MariaDB? Cozy up to the community, says new CEO

The new CEO of MariaDB (Plc) says he wants closer-knit collaboration with the foundation behind the eponymous open source database project. He cites the corporation’s newfound stability from its recent acquisition by a private equity firm as to why it should now be able to get on a firmer foo

What is wearable neurotech and why might we need it?

The wearables category already contains multitudes, from exercise-focused smart watches and sleep-tracking smart rings to smart women’s health tech and semi-invasive blood glucose monitors — to name a few of the gizmos we’ve tracked over roughly a decade of novel personal hardware