2024 Tech News in Review


December 30, 2024

Good morning Tech Fizz readers,

We hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and is stoked for the New Year!

This is the twenty-seventh edition of the Tech Fizz newsletter (with exciting things planned for 2025), and we wanted to use this as an opportunity to highlight the hottest Tech news from July-December 2024.

Feel free to hit reply if you think we missed anything!

P.S. This edition is short on purpose so you can get back to jotting down your New Years resolutions.

Brain Blast
Hot tech discoveries and breakthroughs in the second half of 2024

Take Your Vitamins: Japanese researchers discovered that a simple Vitamin B supplement could be a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease.

Butter from Thin Air: A company called Savor is creating sustainable and delicious food by transforming carbon dioxide from the air into lab-made butter and other fat-based products.

Electro-therapy: Scientists at North Carolina State University developed an affordable bandage that uses an electric field to accelerate the healing of chronic wounds.

Fireproof Wonder-Gel: In response to the escalating crisis of wildfires, researchers at Stanford University developed a groundbreaking water-enhancing gel designed to provide superior protection against wildfires.

Perimeter Secured: A Florida-based company developed a novel technology capable of detecting explosives and firearms from hundreds of feet away, even through solid barriers.

Smart Clothing: Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden developed a conductive silk thread that can harness body heat to generate electricity.

Industry Snapshot of 2024
By the numbers

95,667
The number of workers at US-based tech companies that lost their jobs.

280
The number of rounds where a company raised at least $100M.

30
The number of startups that had a billion-dollar exit.

Space Dashboard for 2024
By the numbers

58
The number of state-sponsored and private citizens that visited space.

251
The number of successful space launches.

6
The number of space launch failures.

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