5 questions with Shimmy founder Ashley Wayman

Boston startup Shimmy sees its eco-friendly hand sanitizer dispensers as the perfect way to promote gathering in-person safely.

Bitcoin’s holds above $20,000 after week of forced crypto selling

At Verve Motion, engineer Brendan Quinlivan is testing the software in the company's vest.

Lightening the load for warehouse workers

Bitcoins featured in ads in Washington, D.C., in 2021. The crypto world has gone into full meltdown mode in a sell-off that illustrated the risks of the experimental and unregulated digital currencies.

We’re in ‘crypto winter.’ Here’s what locals think about the future of the industry.

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A Moma Therapeutics scientist in the startup's lab in Brighton.

Think we’ve solved the STEM gender gap? Think again.

The party at The Dream Hotel Lobby and Roof Bar during NFT.NYC on June 21. The main act was Escape Plan, a duo of NFTs created by Boston's Big Night Entertainment Group. Music was being played by a pair of real DJs wearing motion-sensing gear that translated their movement into a screen.

At NYC’s crypto fest, optimism runs high

Amazon's Alexa could soon read children's stories in late relatives' voices.

Alexa has a new voice: your dead relative’s

Local tech executives including Joe Lemay, CEO of RocketBook, performed rock songs at a charity benefit called Tech Tackles Cancer in Cambridge.

Local tech execs rock out at charity benefit for cancer research

Proteus has distinguished itself Amazon’s first totally autonomous warehouse machine. It’s disk-shaped, about 7 inches tall, and designed to slide under a shelf full of merchandise, lift it up, and carry it to a workstation, the company said.

Amazon’s new warehouse robots have some fancy features

Boston’s biggest AI startup faces firestorm of criticism

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Lightening the load for warehouse workers

Somerville startup Verve Motion’s "exosuit" acts like extra muscle to make picking up heavy objects easier.

Joe Curtatone feels energized by his new gig

The former Somerville mayor is on a learning curve as president of the Northeast Clean Energy Council.

TECH POWER PLAYERS 50

Meet the CEOs, founders, and investors leading the Mass. tech scene

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the tech world — at Akamai and beyond — became more heads-down and distributed.

The pandemic spurred a shift in local tech leaders’ impact and influence

Carmichael Roberts is fostering a new wave of startups — like Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Infinite Cooling — that just might produce some of the answers needed to save the planet.

In ‘an interesting collision,’ Carmichael Roberts takes on the climate crisis

Jody Rose and Jeff Bussgang — the cofounders of the Boston nonprofit Hack.Diversity — have connected hundreds of underrepresented tech professionals with firms such as Wayfair, Rapid7, Klaviyo, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since 2016.

Jody Rose and Jeff Bussgang are tackling tech’s diversity problem

For more than a decade, Desh Deshpande, an influential former executive in the local telecom industry, has been focused on sharing that wealth by helping entrepreneurs of color get their own startups off the ground.

Desh Deshpande is expanding entrepreneurship to narrow the wealth gap

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In an aerial view, Tesla cars sit parked in a lot at the Tesla factory on April 20, 2022 in Fremont, California.

Nearly 400 crashes of automated tech vehicles, US report finds

Automakers reported nearly 400 crashes of vehicles with partially automated driver-assist systems, including 273 involving Teslas, according to statistics released by US safety regulators on Wednesday. 10:16 a.m.

So long, Internet Explorer. The browser is finally retiring.

As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate. 8:37 a.m.

INNOVATION BEAT

Experienced startup founder Lars Albright

Will remote work help Boston’s startup scene?

Tech entrepreneur Lars Albright has opened a local outpost for Silicon Valley VC firm Unusual Ventures. He is betting on Greater Boston's continued success. 11:38 a.m.

The Coinbase office in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2017.

Coinbase Global plans to cut 1,100 jobs, or 18 percent of staff

The cryptocurrency trading platform said in a regulatory filing that it expects to have about 5,000 total employees at the end of its current fiscal quarter on June 30. 8:58 a.m.

An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021.

Bitcoin plunges as major crypto lender halts operations

It is the second collapse of a part of the cryptocurrency world in the last two months. The stablecoin Terra imploded in early May, erasing tens of billions of dollars in a matter of hours. 12:03 p.m.

Desktop Metal CEO Ric Fulop, in a lab with 3D printers; the Burlington company said it would cut 12 percent of its workforce.

More local tech companies are cutting jobs

Amid the stock market downturn and tough economic conditions, the wave of tech companies announcing job cuts and office closures is accelerating. 11:14 a.m.

TECH LAB

Abortion-rights demonstrators during a nationwide rally in Washington, D.C., last month.

Could the fall of Roe v. Wade boost digital privacy?

Lawmakers and activists fear that if the decision is overturned, states that adopt tough abortion restrictions could use location data to track down those who obtain or perform abortions. 4:08 p.m.

A 2021 Model 3 sedan is connected to a charger at a Tesla dealership on June 27, 2021, in Littleton, Colo.

US advances probe of Teslas running into emergency vehicles

The agency said it has reports of 14 crashes into emergency vehicles with 15 injuries and one death. Tesla reported two more crashes to the agency, in California and South Carolina. 12:01 p.m.

Christopher Ahlberg, founder and CEO of Recorded Future.

One of the nation’s top lines of cyber defense runs through this company in Davis Square

Recorded Future, which operates out of a former laundromat, has provided Washington’s top officials with intelligence on the country’s biggest breaches, from the Jan. 6 insurrection to recent ransomware attacks.