Alexander
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexander upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Meggie @Meggie - over 3 years ago
Nuclear fusion tech developer General Fusion now has Shopify and Amazon founders backing it
In a brief announcement today, the Canadian nuclear fusion technology developer General Fusion announced that the investment firm created by Shopify founder Tobias Lütke has joined the company’s cap table.The size of the investment made by Lütke’s Thistledown Capital was ...continued
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Immanuel @Immanuel - over 3 years ago
Senti Bio raises $105 million for its new programmable biology platform and cancer therapies
Senti Biosciences, a company developing cancer therapies using a new programmable biology platform, said it has raised $105 million in a new round of financing led by the venture arm of life sciences giant Bayer.The company’s technology uses new computational biological t...continued
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Delia @Delia - over 3 years ago
Jaeger's 63 UK stores to permanently close after M&S deal - Reuters
FILE PHOTO: A Marks and Spencer (MS) logo is seen on the outside of a store in Cheshire, Britain August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Jason CairnduffLONDON (Reuters) - British fashion retailer Jaeger’s 63 stores and concessions will permanently close after Marks Spencer on Friday p...continued
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Teagan @Teagan - over 3 years ago
Morbidity and Mortality: Just Skip ’Em
CommunicateHealthJan 14 · 2 min readAlt: A doodle swooning on a couch says, “Oh, the mortality!” Another doodle points to a graph and says, “I think you mean the death rate.”It’s hard to believe, dear readers, but the COVID-19 pandemic has been dominating headlines and ne...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - over 3 years ago
Mixtape podcast: Artificial intelligence and disability
Welcome back to Mixtape, the TechCrunch podcast that looks at the human element that powers technology.For this episode we spoke with Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute and Minderoo Research Professor at NYU; Mara Mills, associate professor of Media, C...continued
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Jaydon @Jaydon - over 3 years ago
Be Wary of Buyers Who Offer to Overpay
The Better Business Bureau has issued an alert about a grift impacting consumers who sell their stuff online. If you get an offer that’s a lot more than what you’re selling your item for, think twice about the transaction—it’s likely an overpayment scam.How overpayment sc...continued
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Immanuel @Immanuel - over 3 years ago
Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Space 2020
T-minus 3…2…1… liftoff! Day one of TC Sessions: Space 2020, our first conference dedicated to space technology, early-stage startups and the brilliant minds forging a new era of space exploration, is officially underway.Get ready for two days of interviews, panel discussi...continued
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Cameron @Cameron - over 3 years ago
Robotic exoskeletons promise increased mobility and job assistance
Robotic exoskeletons promise increased mobility and job last several years have seen a substantial increase of ability for robotic exoskeleton technology. Completely understandable. For one thing, it’s that rare technology you encounter that really feels like it’s going ...continued
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Allene @Allene - over 3 years ago
This AI-Powered Assistant Helps Marketing and Sales Teams Scale
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.With millions of their employees working from home during the pandemic, many companies have turned to AI technology to improve their marketing and sales teams’ productivity. Ilan Kasan, the co-founder of Exceed...continued
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Elliott @Elliott - over 3 years ago
Putting a Cartoon on a Watch Can Be Serious Business
In 1984, the celebrated watchmaker Gerald Genta displayed his Fantasy collection of watches at the Montres et Bijoux fair in Geneva. It created a furor.The fair’s managers declared, according to a contemporary report in the Eastern Jeweller Watchmaker magazine, that such...continued
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Dayton @Dayton - over 3 years ago
Chill imbibes: inside the booming business of relaxation drinks
After a long day, we all want to slow our heart rate and breathing, loosen our muscles, and lower our blood pressure. We want to calm the mind and body, decreasing tension. We want to interrupt our stress hormonal cascade, ultimately reducing our own hostility. We want to...continued
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Joe @Joe - over 3 years ago
Turn Marketing Goals Into Wins for Your Business
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.If your company achieved one million social media impressions, was featured twice in “The New York Times,” and earned a new celebrity endorsement last month, you might think your marketing campaign was a tremen...continued
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Alexander @Alexander - over 3 years ago
Google TV is the new Android TV, coming to Sony smart TVs this year - CNET
New Sony TVs join Google's own Chromecast in running the updated streaming platform.
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Nelson @Nelson - over 3 years ago
4 Tips to Avoid Influencer Marketing Catastrophes
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.Influencer marketing usually goes one of two ways, it either results in glowing successes where the returns are staggering or it results in epic fails where it takes the company months if not years to recover. ...continued
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Kari @Kari - over 3 years ago
Jedox raises over $100M to expand its financial modeling and analytics software to more verticals
Organizations today — perhaps more than ever before — are relying on technology to help them figure out what the next weeks, months, and years will hold for their business at what has been one of the more tumultuous periods for our global economy in decades. Today, a comp...continued
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Anderson @Anderson - over 3 years ago
Stressed out? Blame bad technology - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is no question that we are all more dependent on technology than ever. So what happens when that tech does not work?FILE PHOTO: Silhouette of mobile device user is seen next to a screen projection of binary code are seen in this picture illustra...continued
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Garnet @Garnet - over 3 years ago
GM targets delivery companies with new EV business unit BrightDrop
GM has launched a new business unit to offer commercial customers — starting with FedEx — an ecosystem of electric and connected products, the latest effort in the company’s ambitious $27 billion bid to become a leading electric automaker.The new business called BrightDro...continued
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Joe @Joe - over 3 years ago
Can Immersive Art Remain Afloat When Money Is the Object?
Even as the pandemic takes its toll on tourism, immersive museums and experiential art centers are expanding to new cities and wooing investors willing to gamble on the future of the emerging industry.Fotografiska wanted to introduce New Yorkers to a different type of mus...continued
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Alexander @Alexander - over 3 years ago
Zoom will officially support Apple's M1 Macs on December 21st
If you’re using Zoom on your M1 Mac for virtual holiday get-togethers, you’ll be happy to hear that an upgrade is arriving in a timely fashion. 9to5Mac has learned that Zoom is rolling out a December 21st update that lets the video calling app natively suppor…
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Alexander @Alexander - over 3 years ago
Was German Unification Inevitable? | History Today
‘The unity of the German-speaking lands goes back a long way’Len Scales, Professor of Late Medieval History, Durham University.There was once a time when German historians searched avidly for the emergence of the ‘first German state’ or ‘first Reich’. Usually they discove...continued
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Gregoria @Gregoria - over 3 years ago
Quantum Metric raises $200M, now valued at over $1B, for its digital product design platform
Digital product design — the process of building services like websites and apps that work without bugs and as you intend them to — has come into focus as an especially important thing to get right in the last year. With more customers using sites and apps to interact wit...continued
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Alan @Alan - over 3 years ago
Connecting employer healthcare plans to surgical centers of excellence nets Carrum Health $40 mil...
Six years after launching its service linking employer-sponsored insurance plans with surgical centers of excellence, Carrum Health has raised $40 million in a new round of financing to capitalize on tailwinds propelling its business forward. As the COVID-19 pandemic expo...continued
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Eleanora @Eleanora - over 3 years ago
Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global
Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with hundreds of millions of people and tens of billions of dollars in business that rely on them at risk — on top of the fundamental tragedy of losing such a crucial ecosystem. Coral Vita aims to modernize both c...continued
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Hulda @Hulda - over 3 years ago
GM modernizes its logo to highlight its EV-centric future
Hitting the Books: The racist underpinnings of incel ideologySource: EngadgetPowered by NewsAPI.org
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Marie @Marie - over 3 years ago
Tile Is Reportedly Launching a New Tracker to Make Finding Your Lost Keys Easier
Tile is looking to make its Bluetooth item-finders more powerful with ultra-wide band technology and by adding augmented reality to its mobile phone app, reports TechCrunch.Like Tile’s current trackers, the new UWB trackers will also use short-range, wireless communicatio...continued
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