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MB&F unveils the racing-inspired Horological Machine 8
Long dedicated to space, spiders, and robots, MB&F has finally come back to earth with the Horological Machine 8, a new watch inspired by the silhouette of Can-Am race cars. This watch is part of the “Horological Machine” series, a set of handmade watches that look like a cross between something that belongs on a Jules Verne submarine and a piece of expensive chocolate. This… Read More
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Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak bets big on emergency app Reporty
One of Israel’s most storied politicians, Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, has thrown his significant personal and political capital behind an early stage emergency services app Reporty. With Barak’s help the app company has raised $5.15 million as it seeks to leverage both his portfolio and his political acumen in its push into a crowded market. In the age of mass shootings… Read More
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Arrow picks the Smart Cube smartlock as its first Indiegogo partner product
A few months back Indiegogo and component provider Arrow announced a deal aimed at helping bring promising crowdfunding projects to market, providing hopeful campaigns with some much needed tools in those difficult months following funding. Smart Armor will be the first hardware startup to get that push for this morning’s launch of the Smart Cube, a smartlock system that to can be adapted… Read More
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Kano moves beyond Pi with code-your-own device kits for kids
It’s been 16 months since Kano took to the stage at TC Disrupt New York 2015 to announce a $15M Series A, and to talk up its big ambition to build a creative computing brand. And 10 months since, flush with VC cash, it started work on its next big product reveal… Today it’s ready to show what it’s been working on. Read More
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Mattel’s ThingMaker, the 3D printer that let kids make their own toys, delayed until next year
Remember ThingMaker? Mattel’s $300 3D printer that would let kids print out their own toys? Its ship date – which was supposed to be this month – just got pushed back another year, according to a report from Engadget. The toy maker says it needs the extra time to “enhance the digital functionality” in order to deliver the “most engaging” experience… Read More
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Skedaddle wants to take ride-sharing out of cities and across the country
It was only a matter of time before the same forces that brought competition to the taxi industry turned their attention to the bus business. And now, what Uber and Lyft have done for ride-sharing inside cities and towns across America, startups like Skedaddle want to do for ride-sharing across America. Launched by a clutch of east coast entrepreneurs led by Adam Nestler, his brother Craig… Read More
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The EFF calls on HP to remove DRM from its printers
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called on HP to restore customer’s ability to use third-party ink cartridges in its Office Jet printers. It is also urging consumers to sign a petition, which as of this posts’s publication, has nearly 7,500 signatures. In an open letter to HP Inc. President and CEO, Dion Weisler, activist Cory Doctorow calls on the company to take five… Read More
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Bot Metrics gives developers the tools to measure and analyze their chat bots
Bot Metrics, an San Francisco-based company that specializes in — you got it.. — metrics and analyze of chat bots has landed funding to help developers and early bot enthusiasts get a better understanding of their services and users. Read More
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Wink’s smart home hub gets some key upgrades for its second generation
The smart home has come a long way in the two-plus years since the original Wink Hub was launched as a spinoff of New York-based hardware crowdsourcer, Quirky. Among other things, a number of major players like Amazon, Google and Apple have stepped up their attempts to provide a central ecosystem for the increasingly populated world of connected home devices. But while the competition has gotten… Read More
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Elon Musk is giving a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress today, with an hour-long talk titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species.” The talk kicks off at 2:30 PM ET, and we’ll be covering it to bring you all the details of Musk’s plans to get humans to Mars (and beyond?). Musk doesn’t just want us to touch the face of these… Read More
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Color Genomics raises $45 million to provide cheaper genetic tests that detect cancer risk
Othman Laraki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened to contain data on his genome being sequenced — and Laraki wanted to take a look at the data. That led to the original hypothesis of Color Genomics: what if you could apply the same principles… Read More
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Waylens Horizon action camera for cars captures the thrill of driving
At a glance 157 degree wide-angle f/2.4 aperture 1/1.8″ image sensor 1080p 30/60pfs, 720p 120/60fps Pros Camera design itself is top-notch Built-in OLED touchscreen Cons Included mounting hardware for cable not great Expensive at $499 Connecting the car The Waylens Horizon is essentially a conical, dense metal camera replete with optics, onboard processing power and battery. Read More
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Kustomer, founded by Salesforce alums, nabs $12.5M to repair customer care
The need to contact customer support is the bane of many a modern consumer’s existence: not only is it likely that you are doing it because you have a problem that needs fixing, but you are inevitably sucked into a vortex where you have to sit on the phone for ages (or wait in stasis for emailed replies), repeat your details several times to subsequent assistants, and potentially… Read More
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Blue’s latest podcasting mic goes super portable
Blue Raspberry brings to mind Slurpees as much as anything. The name of Blue Microphone’s latest offering is seeming an homage to its longstanding Blueberry condenser mic, but then, between the Snowball, the Spark, the Tiki and the Yeti, there’s seemingly no rhyme or reason to the microphone’s naming conventions. What the company does have, however, is some real clout… Read More
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With Daily Mix, Spotify taps algorithms to make infinite playlists from your favorite tunes
Are you a Spotify user who has a list of favorite bands and songs, but do not have the motivation to find and organize all of them into useful playlists? Today, the streaming company is launching a new service called Daily Mix that is partly aimed at you. Tapping into your own history of albums and tracks that you have listened to on the platform, Daily Mix brings together a… Read More
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The mPod is a 3-D body scanner coming to a gym near you
Looking in the mirror or stepping on a scale can tell us much about our bodies and wellbeing, but not with the greatest precision. Now, a Sydney, Australia-based company called mPort is bringing its mPod body scanners to gyms and malls in the U.S., where they think users will be interested in getting granular data about their bodies. The mPod, which looks like a large photo booth or a… Read More
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Nearly four weeks in, about 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7 units have been exchanged in the US and Korea
One would have been hard-pressed to dream up a worse beginning to the month for Samsung. As Apple was readying its next big iPhone reveal, the company was scrambling to do damage control for a phone that was supposed to be its next big thing. Around three-dozen battery-related incidents were reported by Sept. 2, the company outlined its recall plans. Everyone from the FAA to the MTA have… Read More
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FilmDoo
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Repable
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Quantapore
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InstaMed
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- HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Refash
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TierPoint
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Preceptis Medical
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Cellerant Therapeutics
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- Categories: Biotechnology, Clinical Trials, Therapeutics
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Zenly Locator
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- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
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DeepGram
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MoneyFarm
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- HQ: London, England
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VMO Rocks Sdn Bhd
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The Skimm
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Juzhen Financials
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Advonex International
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Inverse
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- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Digital Media, Information Technology, Internet
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Yodeck Digital Signage
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ThisWay Global
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- HQ: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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UangTeman
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Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
- $150M Debt Financing
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Biotechnology
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Latize
- $1.5M Venture
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
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Mekorot
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- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Water
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Red Points
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Knotch
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Team Apex
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SocietyOne
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