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Like most good startup stories, Harbor began life as a product of disappointment. Kevin Lavelle, the co-founder and CEO of innovative clothing company Mizzen and Main, couldn’t find a baby…
There’s ample opportunity in the form of a mobile billboard. Kiwibot is so convinced of this fact that it plunked down $25 million to purchase Nickelytics.
In many meetings today, it sometimes feels like there are more AI notetaking and transcription bots than people. There are seemingly dozens of options to choose from these days, but…
The startup will use turbomachinery to develop a heat pump capable of generating industrial-grade heat.
The European Union has opened two “specification proceedings” on Apple under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will see it instructing the iPhone maker on how to comply with…
Growing up in the Hunter Valley, a region of Australia renowned for its fine wine production, Mitchel Fowler never realized he might one day think of an idea that could…
Security
Picus Security, founded by 3 Turkish mathematicians, raises $45M after simulating 1B cyber attacks
Picus Security, which runs continuous validation processes to root out and fix inconsistencies in code, has raised $45 million in a Series C round.
With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting? Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded…
A final report by the UN’s high level advisory body on artificial intelligence makes for, at times, a surreal read. Named ‘Governing AI for Humanity’, the document underlines the contradictory…
The startup is taking a different approach to removing carbon dioxide from the air than most of its competitors.
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The governing body overseeing India’s popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm.
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Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense.…
Motional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the…
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half…
Ashraf Hebela, J.P. Morgan’s Head of Startup Banking, may sit on the finance side of startups these days. But he once sat in the founder…
The company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiatives focused on dealing with bad actors, harassment, spam, fake accounts, video safety, and more.
Fal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it’s raised $23 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Black Forest Labs co-founder Robin…
A House committee overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill that would require new cars to be built with AM radio at no additional cost to the owner. The AM for…
The Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort.
The reversal comes as EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.
