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The entrepreneurs behind the new drone economy
The FAA released some staggering numbers as it welcomed Part 107, otherwise known as the rules governing the commercial drone industry in the U.S.: Within one year, they estimate 600,000 drones will be active in commerce in the U.S. But where are the pilots coming from, and what are they going to do with those drones? Read More
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Police complaints drop 93 percent after deploying body cameras
A study from Cambridge University documents an immense drop in complaints against police officers when their departments began using body cameras. But even more surprising is that the data suggests everyone is on their best behavior whether the cameras are present or not. Read More
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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on fixing real problems
Let’s face it. Our country is not the land of equal opportunity, and the so-called American Dream — that everyone can succeed with hard work and determination — is a myth. The existence of systemic racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and anti-semitism makes it so that the American Dream will never come true for so many people. Those… Read More
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WhatsApp races to internationalize Snapchat’s overlaid creative tools
Every member of the Facebook family of apps is pushing to bring copies of Snapchat’s best features to international audiences before Snapchat blows up abroad. There was the Facebook Camera Feed, Instagram Stories and Messenger Day — and now WhatsApp is cloning Snapchat’s creative tools. Now you’ll be able to add overlaid text with multiple colors and fonts, drawings… Read More
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To beef up in marketing, Salesforce will buy Krux for $340M in cash, up to $750M overall
Salesforce is making yet another acquisition, once again to build out its footprint in marketing and adtech. The company has just confirmed that it is buying Krux, a company that tracks traffic (“data signatures”) across multiple devices — e.g. desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top — and channels — display, social, search, video. In a statement to the SEC… Read More
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How to feed the world with sensors, data and local production
Today, food and agriculture entrepreneurs took the stage at the White House lawn for SXSL 2016 to discuss the potential and limits of technology to feed a burgeoning world population. According to the most recent available estimates from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 793 million people in the world do not have enough to eat today. And with a… Read More
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Spoken Editions goes live on iTunes so you can listen to your favorite websites
As we reported in September, iTunes has today launched a new section called “Spoken Editions,” which will feature narrated content from a number of online publishers in the form of audio-only podcasts. These Spoken Editions are available both in the iTunes storefront, as well as in Apple’s Podcasts app, for easy access. We first spotted the Spoken Editions in the wild… Read More
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Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products
Amazon is making a significant change to its Community Guidelines, announced today, which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program. This program allows Amazon – not the seller or vendor – to identify trusted reviewers, and has a number of controls in place in order to keep bias out of the review process. Amazon… Read More
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Mophie’s modular case brings everything but a headphone jack to the iPhone 7
Of late, Mophie seems to be intent on letting the world know that it’s more than just charging cases – but hey, at the end of the day, there are worse things to be than virtually synonymous with a given space. And hey, when Apple unveiled its first proprietary charging case a year or so back, everyone was quick to drop the hardware startup’s name like it was going out… Read More
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White House’s SXSL shows what it’s like to be in the criminal justice system
The criminal justice system in our country is broken. Just imagine if technologists put their resources and knowledge toward solving some of our country’s biggest issues, instead of toward the next dating app. Today at South by South Lawn, the White House’s first-ever festival of art, ideas and action, I got a glimpse of what that world might look like. My first stop was to… Read More
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The Apple Watch’s unlock feature could turn the smartwatch tides
Pull on your commenting pants because I’m going to offer up some wild speculation coupled with real-world experience to come to a conclusion that some of you might find ludicrous and others will find just weird. Here we go: I think the Apple Watch’s Mac unlock feature is one of the most compelling things about the watch itself and could turn the smartwatch tides if more… Read More
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CRISPR will have to wait for that Nobel Prize
A bunch of Nobel awards went out to recipients today, but the inventors of the gene-editing breakthrough CRISPR were not among them. The mechanism to snip out unwanted genes seemed the discovery of the century and two of the scientists behind this breakthrough, Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her colleague now at Berlin’s Max Plank Institute, Emmanuelle Charpentier, were up for… Read More
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Faraday Future partners with Chevy Bolt-supplier LG Chem on batteries
How do you prove you’re serious about making electric cars? A partnership with one of the suppliers currently producing batteries at scale for shipping vehicles is a good start. Faraday Future announced such a union today, with a new agreement with LG Chem, the lithium-ion cell manufacturer that provides the powerhouses for vehicles including the Chevrolet Bolt EV. The partnership… Read More
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WalmartLabs open sources the application platform that powers Walmart.com
Walmart probably isn’t the first company that comes to mind when you think about open-source software (or the second or third, really), but WalmartLabs, Walmart’s innovation-focused tech division, has already launched a number of open-source projects into the wild. The most interesting of these so far was OneOps, its DevOps platform, but today it is launching a similarly… Read More
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Dohop lets you book flights without worrying about price changes
Dohop (as in “Do hop on a plane and bring those human transplant organs with you, would you, dear?”) is a newly reorganized flight, hotel, and rental car search service that was launched in 2005 but relaunched worldwide a few years ago. The service now offers FLYR Fare Protection, as well, which means you can “hold” a fare for 30 days without worrying about price… Read More
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Google Docs for life sciences startup Benchling raises $7 million in growth funding from Thrive Capital
Benchling, a biotech company out of Y Combinator providing cloud-based software for researchers, tells TechCrunch it has raised $7 million in growth funding to continue creating tools to help the science community access research from big pharma and other leaders in the space. You might think of Benchling as the Google Docs portion of the life sciences industry. While IT solutions software… Read More
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What to expect from Google’s October 4 Pixel and hardware event
Google’s big October event is tomorrow, and rumors suggest we’ll see a ton of new hardware unveiled, including new Pixel smartphones running stock Android (replacing the Nexus lineup of devices). The event will also tell us more about Google Home, the Amazon Echo competitor that Google previewed at I/O earlier this year, including likely when you can get your hands on… Read More
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Carrick Therapeutics
- $95M Series A
- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Switchee
- 605K EUR Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Energy Efficiency, Energy
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Hot Cha (Bristol) Ltd
- 7.5M GBP Venture
- HQ: Bristol, Bristol, City of
- Categories: Restaurants
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CarForce
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Houston, Texas
- Categories: Analytics, SaaS, Automotive
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals
- $13M Series A
- HQ: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Categories: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Bioinformatics
- Investors: Not available
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Mystifly
- $5.0M Series A
- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Leisure, Travel, Tourism
- Investors: Not available
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Benchling
- $7.0M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Health Care, Renewable Energy, Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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SponServe
- $600K Seed
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
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CancerAid
- 1.2M AUD Seed
- HQ: Sydney, New South Wales
- Categories: Medical Device
- Investors: Not available
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TVPlayer
- 5.0M GBP Venture
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Broadcasting
- Investors: Not available
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GOQii
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Menlo Park, California
- Categories: Lifestyle, Fitness, Consumer Electronics
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Aire
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Credit, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Investors: Not available
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Uniphore
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Taramani, Tamil Nadu
- Categories: Software
- Investors: Not available
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Chatally
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: New York, New York
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Inova Translational Medicine Institute
- $9.5M Grant
- HQ: Falls Church, Virginia
- Categories: Not available
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eShiksa
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Jaipur, Rajasthan
- Categories: Education
- Investors: Not available
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