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Productive solar technologies draw investors as global off-grid solar sector funding slumpsProductive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) technologies, especially those in the solar irrigation and cold chain segment, saw increased investor...
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Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industryShinkei raised $6 million to help it go from pilot to production, with a goal of 10 machines in actual use by the end of the year. © 2024...
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Sam’s Club’s AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of storesSam's Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their...
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Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business userAs data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data-wrangling...
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US fines telcos $200M for sharing customer location data without consentThe U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Monday that it is fining the four U.S. major wireless carriers around $200 million in total for...
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Notable Capital’s Hans Tung on why founders need to play the long gameHans Tung, a managing partner at Notable Capital, formerly GGV Capital, has a lot of thoughts on the state of venture capital today. With $4.2...
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The Browser Company releases Arc for WindowsThe Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client in...
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The first-ever race between four self-driving cars and a Formula 1 driver just happened in Abu DhabiWander the pits at any professional motorsports event, especially something like Formula 1, and you’ll see endless computer displays full of...
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Bumble’s “Opening Move” feature takes the pressure off women to come up with a new message every timeAs Bumble prepares for its app relaunch this summer, the women-first dating platform announced a series of product updates on Tuesday, including a...
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Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEOUnitedHealth's CEO said in congressional testimony that the portal used by the hackers to break into Change Healthcare was not protected with a...
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Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businessesYelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a...
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Meta’s approach to election security in the frame as EU probes Fb, InstagramThe European Union announced Tuesday it suspects Meta’s social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc’...
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Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup ideaRealising that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, put previously private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site, tech founder Dan...
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Nigeria’s YC-backed Chowdeck hopes to scale food delivery, a notoriously tough market, with $2.5M fundingFood is significant to Nigerians, with households spending nearly 60% of their income on it, the highest globally, according to official reports....
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neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s officeThe eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. That’s why...
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As VC firms invest more in B2B startups, Intuition is a new VC fund focusing on consumer techIn 2024, it’s hard to wake up without reading about yet another large funding round in an enterprise AI company. Intuition, a new VC firm based in...
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Solo GP fund Andrena Ventures hopes to carry startup talent onto its next challengesGideon Valkin's solo VC firm Andrena Ventures is raising $12 million from backers including several VCs and entrepreneurs, and made its first...
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Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industryFrench startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. That’s why the company has decided to...
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Social media companies have too much political power, 78% of Americans say in Pew surveyFinally, something that both sides of the aisle can agree on: social media companies are too powerful. According to a survey by the Pew Research...
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NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AINIST, the U.S. government agency charged with testing emerging tech, has created a new platform to evaluate generative AI. © 2024 TechCrunch....
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Apple iPad event 2024: Watch Apple unveil new iPads right hereWe’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. On Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the...
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Inside the ‘cold war’ at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force changeFinancial losses, founder revolts, public firings and overflowing office sewage mark the storied institution’s annus horribilis. © 2024...
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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conferenceGoogle told TechCrunch that Flutter will have new updates to share at I/O this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
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Fisker starts new round of layoffs to ‘preserve cash’EV startup Fisker Inc. is laying off more employees to “preserve cash,” one week after warning investors it would have to make cuts to...
