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Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball

Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already workin

Hackers could remotely turn off lights, honk, mess with Tesla’s infotainment system

Thanks to three vulnerabilities chained together, malicious hackers could remotely hack into a Tesla, turn off the lights, honk the horn, open the trunk, activate the windshield wipers, and mess with

Fresh funding gives cat food brand Smalls avenue into retail for the first time

Smalls will open a cat cafe in New York in the fall and continue innovating on its fresh cat food products.

VCs continue to pour dollars into generative AI

VCs aren't giving up on generative AI, which they believe will be the next big thing in tech. The investment numbers are staggering.

Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers

Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by creating a mesh netw

Tory Burch Foundation launches tool to help women founders find capital

The tool comes at a perilous time for many women founders: last year, companies founded solely by women received just 1.9% of all capital allocated to US startups.

Turntable LIVE (née tt.fm) raises $7M ahead of public launch

The Turntable wars were one of the more fascinating stories to emerge in 2021 startup land (though I suspect those involved might dispute the matter). After years away, the beloved but bygone collabor

Twitter is dying

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called, Twitter. The platform had punched about its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivalled ab

Venti raises $29M to designed autonomous vehicles for industrial and logistics hubs

We are still likely many years away from wide-scale deployment — let alone adoption — of fully autonomous vehicles on our streets, but in the meantime autonomous vehicle companies focusing

Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft

Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include

Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs

The company is betting that outsourcing will fast-track its unique fusion reactor designs.

Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end

Last-mile robotics startup Neubility — which makes autonomous delivery robots that work without lidar — says that it plans bump its fleet up to 400  by the end of this year, up from the 5

For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success

If you’re not careful, you can come up against delays, or worse, investors pulling out at the last minute.

Cabify, the Madrid-based Uber rival, says it’s raised $110M

It’s 2023, and we’re years past the peak of monster fundraising for on-demand transportation and delivery startups locked in highly competitive races with each other to dominate urban cons

Isar Aerospace raises $165 million to bring more sovereign launch to Europe

German launch startup Isar Aerospace has scored $165 million (€155 million) in new funding as it races toward the inaugural flight of its Spectrum small rocket later this year. The company, founded

Apple Music Classical is now available for download to everyone

Apple's new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is available for download to iPhone users.

Techstars-backed Fez Delivery gets funding to scale its last-mile logistics platform

Fez Delivery, a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ve

Sequoia Capital India, GFC back 1-click payment checkout startup Nimbbl in $3.5m funding

Nimbbl, an Indian startup seeking to improve conversions for merchants with its 1-click payment checkout solution, has raised $3.5 million in seed and pre-Series A rounds from Sequoia Capital India, G

When life gives you carbon, make Carbonaide

Concrete is ubiquitous. A mainstay of the construction industry, over 10 billion cubic meters of concrete is used every year. It’s also responsible for up to 8% of CO2 emissions: one ton of ordi

GitHub slashes engineering team in India

GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India.
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