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Standard Power details plan for data centers powered by miniaturized nuclear reactors

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:52:00 +0000

Standard Power, a New York-based provider of colocation and data center construction services, plans to use miniaturized nuclear reactors to power some of its facilities. The company detailed the plan on Friday. It intends to source the reactors from NuScale Power Corp., a publicly traded nuclear energy company. NuScale is not the only company developing […]

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Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space raises $100M for further development

Duncan Riley — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:35:53 +0000

Reusable rocket startup Stoke Space Technologes Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in new funding to finance the development of its first-stage rocket engine, the orbital version of its reusable second-stage rocket engine, and pay for new construction at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Founded in 2019 by former SpaceX Inc. […]

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Duplicating the charm of handwritten messages – at scale

Paul Gillin — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:21:00 +0000

In a world of pre-sorted, data-driven, machine-generated messages, handwritten notes have become as odd as the rotary telephone. CBS News reported in 2021 that 37% of Americans hadn’t sent a handwritten letter in over five years and half hadn’t received one. The rarity of pen-and-ink messages makes them compelling enough that they usually get read. […]

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MLB looks for a hit with its Virtual Ballpark metaverse experiment

Zeus Kerravala — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:33:08 +0000

Major League Baseball kicked off a Virtual Ballpark experience for a Sept. 20 game between the Angels and Rays that uses startling 3D graphics to depict baseball games in real time. Built in partnership with British metaverse company Improbable, it’s not without its early bugs, since the Virtual Ballpark UI was a little choppy. But like […]

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Meta introduces mixed reality Quest 3 headset and next generation of Ray-Ban smart glasses

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:33:09 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. finally announced the launch of its long-awaited mass-market mixed reality headset, the $499 Meta Quest 3, during the company’s virtual Meta Connect event today. The new device will allow users to enjoy both virtual reality experiences, with complete immersion in virtual worlds, and mixed reality, which blends the physical world with computer-generated […]

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Bridging the gap: VMware Explore emphasizes the need for business-centric architecture

Sead Fadilpasic — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:19:40 +0000

VMware Explore 2023 is all about collaboration and new trends that can help companies create synergistic effects where the combination of businesses creates an effect greater than the sum of their individual parts. This is exemplified in the partnership between Comdivision Consulting GmbH and End-2-End Enterprise Architecture, who are seeking to provide architecture solutions worldwide. The […]

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SRI International spins out Synfini, an AI-powered drug discovery platform provider

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:00:05 +0000

Silicon Valley-based nonprofit scientific research institute SRI International said today it’s spinning out its patented Synfini drug discovery platform as an independent startup named Synfini Inc. Synfini combines technologies that include physical and virtual chemistry, neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, a vast proprietary chemistry dataset and robotic automation to develop novel molecular compounds as promising drug candidates. […]

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Neuralink is now searching for human volunteers for its brain-computer interface trials

James Farrell — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:59:21 +0000

After years of trials with monkeys, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface start-up Neuralink Corp., says it’s now looking for human volunteers to take part in a new set of trials. Since the company got off the ground in 2017, the mission has been to achieve “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” First, the symbiosis was practiced on monkeys, […]

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Employers take note: HP study finds the business-employee relationship is broken

Zeus Kerravala — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:11:24 +0000

HP Inc. just released its first annual study exploring the relationship between employees and work, particularly the gap between evolving work expectations and reality, and that gap is surprisingly wide on a range of drivers for a healthy relationship. The research covers more than 50 facets of work, such as the significance of work in […]

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New Skydio X10 enterprise drone offers advanced cameras and autonomy

Duncan Riley — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:00:32 +0000

Drone manufacturer Skydio Inc. today released its latest enterprise drone, the Skydio X10 The company says the drone offers new, cutting-edge data capture cameras, autonomy and versatile hardware to serve a range of industries, including defense, energy, public safety, transportation, construction and communications. The X10 is being released at a critical moment for the drone industry. Skydio […]

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Intel aims to boost processor speeds with new glass substrate technology

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:59:44 +0000

Intel Corp. will build glass into its most advanced processors to make them faster and more power-efficient. The chipmaker detailed the plan today ahead of its annual Intel Innovation event, which is dedicated to new semiconductor technologies. At the center of the development effort is a component known as a glass substrate. The component, which […]

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Nvidia’s cuQuantum software development kit sings PennyLane’s song

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:40:30 +0000

There is currently a tremendous amount of interest in quantum computing, which can potentially solve some of the world’s biggest problems. However, despite the feverish efforts of cloud providers, hardware manufacturers, and software industry, quantum computing is still on the drawing board. It will happen someday. But, for now, we’ll have to settle for quantum […]

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Nvidia and Xanadu power quantum computing simulations with GPUs

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:35 +0000

Nvidia Corp. is working with a Toronto-based startup called Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. to enable quantum computing simulations to be run on supercomputers for the first time. In a blog post published today, Nvidia said researchers are using the latest version of Xanadu’s PennyLane to simulate quantum machines on a supercomputer called “Perlmutter.” PennyLane is […]

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Argo AI founders return with new SoftBank-backed autonomous truck startup Stack AV

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:44:26 +0000

The founders of Argo AI LLC, a self-driving car startup backed by Ford Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG that had raised $3.6 billion in funding before it was shut down in October, are back with a new autonomous truck business called Stack AV Co. Stack AV launched today with a focus on revolutionizing the way businesses […]

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Envisics secures $100M to build holographic augmented reality displays for cars

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:45:55 +0000

Envisics Ltd., a United Kingdom-based holographic augmented display maker for inside cars, closed a $100 million Series C round on Monday to continue development of heads-up display technology that can be installed in cars to increase driving safety. TechCrunch first reported on the round. Envisics originally announced receiving a $50 million portion of the funding […]

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Patient dies after Cruise vehicles allegedly block ambulance in San Francisco

Duncan Riley — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 23:30:57 +0000

Two autonomous vehicles belonging to Cruise LLC, a unit of General Motors Co., are alleged to have delayed an ambulance in San Francisco on Aug. 14, with the patient later dying in hospital. The incident, which Cruise disputes, allegedly involved two Cruise autonomous vehicles that were stopped in two right-hand lanes on a four-lane, one-way street […]

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Delivery robot startup Serve Robotics to go public

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:55:38 +0000

Serve Robotics Inc., a startup that builds sidewalk robots for last-mile delivery tasks, is going public. San Francisco-based Serve Robotics announced the move this morning. In conjunction, the startup disclosed that it has closed a $30 million investment led by Nvidia Corp. and Uber Technologies Inc., from which it spun off in 2020. The startup’s total […]

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Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR raises $8.6M

Duncan Riley — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:00:56 +0000

Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding to expand its platform to new devices, including Apple Vision Pro, Pico and Magic Leap. Founded in 2016 as Shapes Corp., ShapesXR offers a web-based platform that allows users to instantly create fully immersive scenes and populate them with […]

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Despite earnings beat, Lyft shares drop on lower revenue per rider

Duncan Riley — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 23:05:12 +0000

Shares in Lyft Inc. dropped in late trading after the ride-hailing company reported lower-than-expected revenue per active user despite otherwise solid figures. For its second quarter that ended June 30, Lyft reported adjusted earnings per share of 16 cents on revenue of $1.02 billion, up 3% year-over-year. Revenue was in line with analyst expectations, but […]

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SandboxAQ releases post-quantum cryptography ‘meta-library’ for developers

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Well-funded quantum software startup Sandbox AQ today debuted Sandwich, an open-source framework designed to help developers build more secure applications. SandboxAQ, officially SB Technology Inc., spun out of Alphabet Inc. last year. It went on to raise $500 million from a group of prominent investors. The startup counts Salesforce Inc. founder Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures […]

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Elon Musk-backed Neuralink raises $280M in additional funding

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 21:25:32 +0000

Neuralink Corp., a brain chip startup co-founded by Elon Musk, has raised $280 million in new funding. San Francisco-based Neuralink disclosed the investment this morning. It stated that the lead investor in the round was Founders Fund, a venture capital firm affiliated with Peter Thiel. The startup is believed to have raised more than $640 […]

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‘Superconducting’ LK-99 material draws raised eyebrows from scientists after going viral

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:52:57 +0000

A group of researchers claims to have developed a new kind of superconductor with potentially revolutionary properties, but other scientists are not yet convinced. Nature reported the controversy today. The superconductor in question, which its inventors named LK-99, has been the subject of not only skepticism from other researchers but also several viral videos and […]

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Qualcomm, other chip giants launch RISC-V processor venture

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:44:04 +0000

A group of prominent chipmakers is forming a new venture to broaden the adoption of the RISC-V processor architecture. The venture, which was unveiled by its backers this morning, will initially focus on the auto chip segment. It will be located in Germany, which is home to many major automakers. The newly formed company plans […]

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Want advice from Abraham Lincoln? Meet Meta’s new multi-persona AI chatbots

James Farrell — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:52:12 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. is on the verge of releasing a tribe of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that each have an individual persona, and if today’s report in the Financial Times is correct, one of those personas will sound something like Abraham Lincoln. FT said it spoke to three people who have seen what’s going on inside […]

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Five big tech companies form alliance around OpenUSD for 3D metaverse graphics standard

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:10:59 +0000

Nvidia Corp., Apple Inc., Adobe Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar Animation Studios today announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD, which will promote the joint development of open 3D standards for computer graphics for the metaverse and large-scale 3D projects. OpenUSD, also known as Universal Scene Description, is an open data format […]

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Mobileye tops second-quarter expectations despite increased chip costs

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:13:47 +0000

Chipmaker Mobileye Global Inc. today reported better-than-expected financial results for the second quarter and raised its full-year guidance. Mobileye, a former Intel Corp. subsidiary, makes advanced driver assistance systems and chips for powering them. The company says its silicon has been installed in more than 100 million vehicles to date. Mobileye is currently pursuing a long-term […]

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Waymo changes course from its self-driving truck ambitions to focus on ride-hailing

James Farrell — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:58:35 +0000

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo LLC announced today that it’s putting the brakes on autonomous truck operations and will now focus its efforts on the self-driving ride-hailing part of the business. Waymo Via, the company’s trucking division, was launched six years ago. Until recently, it has been testing its Class 8 heavy-duty trucks, operated by Waymo Driver, […]

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Niantic 8th Wall introduces web AR features to track hands, fingers and wrists

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:30:03 +0000

Augmented reality developer Niantic Inc.’s platform for web-based AR development, 8th Wall, today introduced hand tracking with all-new features that will allow developers to create apps that can add virtual objects to human hands, fingers and wrists. Using the new Hand Tracking, developers will be able to go beyond simply permitting users to interact with AR […]

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Sustainable energy storage startup Energy Dome extends Series B funding to €55M

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:00:12 +0000

Clean energy storage startup Energy Dome S.p.A. said today it has closed on a €15 million extension of its Series B funding round, bringing its amount raised to €55 million, or about $60 million. The Series B extension was led by Innovation Development Oman Investments and saw participation from Vopak Ventures, investors represented by Sagana, […]

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Tesla shares drop despite strong results in second quarter

Duncan Riley — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:11:10 +0000

Shares in Tesla Inc. dropped by over 4% in late trading despite the electric car and solar panel maker beating analyst expectations in its latest quarterly results. For its fiscal second quarter that ended June 30, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 90 cents, up 20%, on revenue of $24.93 billion, up 47% year-over-year. Analysts […]

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