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TechInnovation – 8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

The U.K. is gaining in popularity as a great place to start a tech firm. The country is quickly catching up to China on...

TechInnovation – On TikTok, Black creators’ dance strike calls out creative exploitation (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

There’s a new Megan Thee Stallion music video out in time for triple digit temperatures. But instead of launching a fresh viral TikTok dance for summer,...

TechInnovation – Nanofabricated ‘tetrakaidecahedrons’ could out-bulletproof kevlar (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Researchers at MIT and Caltech have created a nanoengineered material that could be tougher than the likes of kevlar or steel. Made of interconnected carbon “tetrakaidecahedrons,” the material...

Cybersecurity – To end cyberterrorism, the government should extend a hand to the private sector (Mark Testoni, Joseph Moreno, TechCrunch)

It is said that the best way to lose the next war is to keep fighting the last one. The citadels of the medieval...

TechInnovation – Mercuryo raises $7.5M for crypto-focused, cross-border payments after crossing $50M in ARR (Mary Ann Azevedo, TechCrunch)

Mercuryo, a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding. The London-based company describes...

TechInnovation – LinkedIn formally joins EU Code on hate speech takedowns (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has committed to doing more to quickly purge illegal hate speech from its platform in the European Union by formally signing up...

TechInnovation – Loom spins up a pregnancy and postpartum education program (Natasha Mascarenhas, TechCrunch)

Erica Chidi, the co-founder of LOOM and a first-generation Nigerian-American, learned how to wrap the language of self-care around her body from an early age. She...

TechInnovation – Edge Delta raises $15M Series A to take on Splunk (Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch)

Seattle-based Edge Delta, a startup that is building a modern distributed monitoring stack that is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic and...

TechInnovation – AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr (Carly Page, Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications...

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