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Twentyeight Health is a telemedicine company expanding access to women’s health and reproductive care
New York’s Twentyeight Health is taking the telemedicine services for women’s health popularized by companies like Nurx and bringing them to a patient population that previously hadn’t had access. The mission…
Digital vote-by-mail applications in most states are inaccessible to people with disabilities
The 2020 election is without a doubt going to be the biggest one in history for voting by mail, but people with disabilities may find it rather difficult to apply…
Bowery Farming adds executives as it expands to sell produce in 650 stores
Bowery Farming has added to its executive team as it expands its retail footprint to 650 stores, the company said. From three indoor farms in Kearny, New Jersey and Nottingham,…
Xometry raises $75M Series E to expand custom manufacturing marketplace
When companies need to find manufacturers to build custom parts, it’s not always an easy process, especially during a pandemic. Xometry, a seven-year-old startup based in Maryland, has built an…
Humana partners with Heal and invests $100 million in the company’s doctor-on-demand service
“The doctor’s office is dead.” That’s the way Nick Desai, the co-founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based startup Heal, describes the future of traditional healthcare delivery. While Desai’s…
IonQ raises additional funding for its quantum computing platform
Quantum computing startup IonQ today announced that it has raised additional funding as part of its previously announced Series B round. This round extends the company’s funding, including its 2019…
As coronavirus keeps offices closed, wealthy venture capitalists are moving out of apartments in San Francisco and New York and decamping to other vacation-friendly zip codes. In San Francisco, a…
In a letter to Amazon, 13 AGs call for increased transparency and stronger worker protections
In an open letter to Jeff Bezos and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, a coalition of AGs have jointly called on Amazon to strengthen protections for a strained workforce amid…
Nigeria’s Helium Health raises $10M Series A for Africa expansion
Nigerian startup Helium Health sits in a good position during a difficult period, according to its co-founder. The Lagos based healthtech venture is in the black, has batted away acquisition…
German security firm Avira has been acquired by Investcorp at a $180M valuation
Mergers and acquisitions largely grinded to a halt at the end of March, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic spreading around the world, but today comes news of a…
California senator proposes tighter regulations on direct-to-consumer genetics testing companies
A state senator in California is introducing legislation designed to provide more oversight over direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. The new regulations, introduced by Santa Ana’s Democratic Senator Thomas Umberg, builds…
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired Sonatype, a cybersecurity-focused open-source automation company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Sonatype said the acquisition will help to build…
Drones are making a difference in the world and regulatory agencies are helping
Drones will help communities across the country save lives and deliver new services. DOT and the FAA will help ensure it’s all done safely, and that public privacy and security…
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Review of Elon Musk’s DC-to-Baltimore ‘Loop’ system reveals safety concerns
The Boring Company’s Loop transit system that aims to shuttle people in autonomous electric vehicles between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. fails to meet several key national safety standards, a review of its proposal reveals. The underground system appears to lack sufficient emergency exits, ignore the latest engineering practices and proposes passenger escape ladders that one…
Facebook introduces ‘one strike’ policy to combat abuse of its live-streaming service
Facebook is cracking down on its live-streaming service after it was used to broadcast the shocking mass shootings that left 50 dead at two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand in…
Africa Roundup: Zimbabwe’s net blackout, Partech’s $143M fund, Andela’s $100M raise, Flutterwave’s pivot
A high court in Zimbabwe ended the government’s restrictions on internet and social media last month.
VC funding of cybersecurity companies hits record $5.3B in 2018
2018 wasn’t all bad. It turned out to be a record year for venture capital firms investing in cybersecurity companies. According to new data out by Strategic Cyber Ventures, a…
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The Boring Company goes brick-and-mortar with The Brick Store
Elon Musk has shot out some crazy, unbelievable tweets over the last year, but he wasn’t joking about the bricks. Musk has started a company called The Brick Store LLC to produce and sell bricks, according to public documents obtained by TechCrunch. The new company, which was founded in July, will be managed by Steve…
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better if it is presented in VR vs. on a two-dimensional personal computer. This means VR education could…
If you sleep next to someone who snores you know that the endless horking and honking isn’t very fun… and it makes the snorer’s life even worse. Some students and…
The unfettered internet is too often used for malicious purposes and is frequently woefully inaccurate. Social media — especially Facebook — has failed miserably at protecting user privacy and blocking…
Elon Musk gets permission to begin Boring Co. digging in Maryland
Elon Musk’s week is going pretty great thus far, between meeting the creators of Rick & Morty and now gaining permission to dig even more tunnels — besides the one…
Maryland's attorney general doesn't like paying $50 cellphone insurance policy fee
Those cellphone insurance policies you buy? You may have the Maryland Attorney General’s ignorance to thank if something happens to make them more “consumer-friendly.” So be sure to give Douglas…