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MIT researchers are looking to address the significant gap between how quickly robots can process information (relatively slowly), and how fast they can move (very quickly thanks to modern hardware advances), and they’re using something called ‘robomorphic computing’ to do it. The method, designed by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) graduate Dr. Sabrina […]

CloudNatix, a startup that provides infrastructure for businesses with multiple cloud and on-premise operations, announced it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by DNX Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on United States and Japanese B2B startups, with participation from Cota Capital. Existing investors Incubate Fund, Vela Partners and 468 […]

This morning TripActions, a software company whose tools help businesses book and manage corporate travel, announced a new $155 million investment. Three investors led the round: prior investor Andreessen Horowitz, Addition Ventures, and Elad Gil. The new investment, a Series E, values TripActions at $5 billion on a post-money basis, a company spokesperson wrote via […]

While the Biden Administration is being celebrated for its decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement in one of its first executive orders after President Joe Biden was sworn in, it wasn’t the biggest step the administration took to advance its climate agenda. Instead it was a move to get to the basics of monitoring and […]

Soci, a startup focused on what it calls “localized marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $80 million in Series D funding. National and global companies like Ace Hardware, Anytime Fitness, The Hertz Corporation and Nekter Juice Bar use Soci (pronounced soh-shee) to coordinate individual stores as they promote themselves through search, social media, review […]

Apple is reportedly working on developing a high-end virtual reality headset for a potential sales debut in 2022, per a new Bloomberg report. The headset would include its own built-in processors and power supply, and could feature a chip even more powerful than the M1 Apple Silicon processor that the company currently ships on its […]

Creative Fabrica is best known as a marketplace for digital files, like fonts, graphics and machine embroidery designs, created for crafters. Now the Amsterdam-based startup is planning to expand into new verticals, including yarn crafts and projects for kids, with a $7 million Series A round led by Felix Capital. FJ Labs and returning investor […]

Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content. This is a result of application of a ‘neighbouring right’ for news which was transposed into national law following a pan-EU copyright reform agreed back in 2019. The tech giant had […]

But it’s been hard to argue against this position in the last ten years, as the country powered ahead, famously producing ground-breaking startups like Waze, which was eventually picked up by Google for over $1 billion in 2013. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high […]

Springbox AI, an AI-powered financial forecasting application designed to replace financial market investment service and aimed at the average financial markets trader, has launched on iOS and Android. It’s been built by a team of founders who previously worked at Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, UBS, and BNP Paribas. It’s so far raised $2M in funding […]

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller. Even more interesting, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is using its own RP2040 chip, which means that the foundation is now making its own silicon. If you’re not familiar with microcontrollers, those devices let […]

Berlin-based early-stage fund APX today announced that its two investors, European publisher Axel Springer and sports car maker Porsche, have increased their investment in the fund to a total of €55 million. With this, APX, which launched in 2018, is now able to deploy up to €500,000 in pre-Series A seed funding per company. That’s […]

No-code — software that lets you accomplish tasks that previously required coding skills — is an increasingly hot space, even if the basic premise has been promised and not fully realised for many years. Related to this are companies like Airtable, which attempt to make building relational databases and interrogating them as easy as creating […]

Lucile Cornet has been appointed Partner with Eight Roads Ventures Europe, a firm focusing on startups in Europe and Israel. Cornet is its first female Partner. Eight Roads is backed by Fidelity and has over $6 billion assets under management globally. Cornet will be focusing on the software and fintech sectors and previously led a […]

With every year, AI is beginning to bring more standardized levels of diagnostic accuracy in medicine. This is true of skin cancer detection, for example, and lung cancers. Now, a startup in Israel called Embryonics says its AI can improve the odds of successfully implanting a healthy embryo during in vitro fertilization. What the company […]

French startup Georges — or Georges.tech — is raising a new round of funding of $42.4 million (€35 million). The company is also getting a new name and will be called Indy going forward. The startup has been building an accounting automation application for freelancers and small companies. Singular is leading today’s funding round. You […]

When the two year-old Indian company Jetsons Robotics began searching for a partner to help design charging stations for their autonomous rooftop solar installation cleaning robots, the Israeli company Powermat was an obvious choice. While the company had made its name as the designer for wireless charging technologies for consumer electronics, over the past two […]

iSTOX, a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million. Two of its new backers are the government-owned Development Bank of Japan and JIC Venture Growth Investments, the venture capital arm of Japan Investment […]

Indian stock exchanges approved the $3.4 billion deal between retail giants Reliance Retail and Future Group on late Wednesday in yet another setback for Amazon, which has invested over $6.5 billion in the world’s second largest internet market and sought to block the aforementioned deal. The Bombay Stock Exchange said in a notification that it […]

Genflow, a London and LA-based brand-building agency that offers an e-commerce and mobile tech platform to let influencers start companies, has raised $11 million in funding. Leading the round is U.K. investor BGF. The injection of capital will be used by Genflow to further scale its offering and for international expansion. Founded in 2016 by […]

Physicist Brian Keating, codirector of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination, started the show to continue the center's mission of bringing together the world's top thinkers. The post The 'Into the Impossible' Podcast Honors Arthur C. Clarke appeared first on WIRED.

During his nearly 50-year career, the director has made a series of films that are wonderfully quixotic—even when they go off the rails. The post Terry Gilliam Movies Are All About Imagination appeared first on WIRED.

The show's third season jumps forward 1,000 years into the future. It helped the show not stay mired in old ideas. The post With 'Discovery,' 'Star Trek' Is Finally Moving Forward appeared first on WIRED.

In Neal Pollack's sci-fi novel, young people voyage out in search of the ultimate party—only to find the Red Planet is ruled by a real estate developer. The post 'Keep Mars Weird' Is a Hilarious Satire of Austin appeared first on WIRED.

Owen Egerton's 2017 book <em>Hollow</em> used the theory to tell its story. Now that conspiracies are everywhere, he's reconsidering that move. The post The Hollow Earth Theory Isn't So Funny Anymore appeared first on WIRED.

The first season of the Star Wars series was good. But in the second, the visuals and writing make the jump to lightspeed. The post 'The Mandalorian' Is Way Better in Season 2 appeared first on WIRED.

In his short story "Hell Creek," horror author C. Robert Cargill tackles one of the scariest ideas ever: an undead dino apocalypse. The post Dinosaurs Are Even Scarier When They're Zombies appeared first on WIRED.

Physicist Janna Levin is hoping to improve the reputation of the strange phenomena with her new book <em>The Black Hole Survival Guide</em>. The post Black Holes Aren't As Bad As You Think appeared first on WIRED.

Erin Lindsey's Rose Gallagher books give America's 26th president the paranormal cowboy stories he deserves. The post Teddy Roosevelt Is Basically a Fantasy Character appeared first on WIRED.

Christopher Nolan's latest has lots of mind-bending fight scenes, but not much character development. The post 'Tenet' Is a Must-Watch for Action Movie Fans appeared first on WIRED.

Classics like 'Inception' and 'The Cell' are at least a decade old. The post Why Aren't There More Sci-Fi Movies About Dreams? appeared first on WIRED.

Jon Petersen's latest book, <em<>The Elusive Shift</em>, shows how games like <em>Dungeons & Dragons</em> came to be known, controversially, as RPGs. The post What Is a 'Role-Playing Game' Anyway? appeared first on WIRED.