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Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women
When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magnetic resonance imaging machines to test for prostate cancer in men. But the company’s founder, Emi Gal, always had a larg
Bringing tech efficiencies to the agribusiness market, Silo harvests $3 million
Roughly $165 billion worth of wholesale produce is bought and sold every year in the U.S. And while that number is expected to go up to $1 trillion by 2025, the business of agribusiness remains unaffe
Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams
For more than 100 years, entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen
These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs
Over 2 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. And while the diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence for women in countries like the United States, in developing countries
Zipline’s new $190 million funding means it’s the newest billion dollar contender in the game of drones
With a valuation of over $1 billion and $190 million in new financing, Zipline has become the latest contender to be the leader in the game of drones. The competition to be a leading vendor of deliver
As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service
Even as Quibi, the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion, rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeli
DNA Script picks up $38.5 million to make DNA production faster and simpler
DNA Script has raised $38.5 million in new financing to commercialize a process that it claims is the first big leap forward in manufacturing genetic material. The revolution in synthetic biology that
‘Old Town Road’ finally gets the video treatment
From viral TikTok sensation to music’s number one smash hit, “Old Town Road” has taken the top spot in music’s cultural firmament relying on an incredible Nine Inch Nails sampl
Australia’s design unicorn, Canva, picks up two free image-sharing services, and launches new photo product
Canva, the design and publishing platform taking on Adobe, PowerPoint and others, has acquired the free stock image providers Pexels and Pixabay and launched a new subscription service for its premium
Fastly pops in public offering showing that there’s still money for tech IPOs
Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its first hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which priced its
Trump’s Huawei ban ‘wins’ one trade battle, but the US may lose the networking war
While U.S. government officials celebrate what they must consider to be a win in their battle against the low-cost, high-performance networking vendor Huawei and other Chinese hardware manufacturers,
Unveiling its latest cohort, Alchemist announces $4 million in funding for its enterprise accelerator
The enterprise software and services-focused accelerator Alchemist has raised $4 million in fresh financing from investors BASF and the Qatar Development Bank, just in time for its latest demo day unv
Xprize names two grand prize winners in $15 million Global Learning Challenge
Xprize, the nonprofit organization developing and managing competitions to find solutions to social challenges, has named two grand prize winners in the Elon Musk-backed Global Learning Xprize. The co
Trump declares national emergency to protect US networks from foreign espionage
President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to “deal with the threat posed by the unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology&#
White House refuses to endorse the ‘Christchurch Call’ to block extremist content online
The United States will not join other nations in endorsing the “Christchurch Call” — a global statement that commits governments and private companies to actions that would curb the
New ‘Black Mirror’ trailer features Miley Cyrus, Anthony Mackie… and more dystopia
“Black Mirror” is coming back for its fifth season to once again show us why technology’s progress means we can no longer have nice things. The new season will tell three stories wri
With $12 million more in the bag, the furniture subscription service Feather heads to Los Angeles
Furniture subscription rental service, Feather, is heading to Los Angeles and Orange County, California with $12 million in new funding and “thousands” of customers in New York and San Fra
Volvo inks multi-billion-dollar battery deals with LG Chem and CATL for EVs
Volvo Car Group has inked a massive multi-billion-dollar supply deal with Chinese battery manufacturer CATL and Korea’s LG Chem to supply its planned fleet of electric vehicles. The lithium-ion
Stocks gain back some ground as investors assess the trade war’s impact
Stocks had their best trading day in a while on Tuesday as investors took a break from selling to assess the actual effects of the trade war with China. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S
Innowatts raises $18 million for its energy monitoring toolkit for utilities
Innowatts, an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management targeting utilities, has raised $18.2 million in a new round of funding from investors led by Energy Impact Partners . Previous inv