2021 - Tech Startups

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Toyota acquires automotive software startup Renovo to help accelerate the development of fully autonomous connected vehicles

Daniel Levi Posted On September 28, 2021

Toyota Motor Corp’s Silicon Valley research arm Woven Planet announced it has acquired automotive operating system software company Renovo to help accelerate the development of fully autonomous connected vehicles. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded over a […]

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Apple’s new iOS 15 update now comes with a new privacy feature that lets users create “burner email addresses” — here’s how to do it

Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2021

Every day, billions of marketing and phishing emails are sent to people’s inboxes and there seems to be no end in sight. Now, Apple may have finally found a solution to stop these spam emails on their tracks with new privacy features […]

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Watch how China tracks, scores, and ranks its 1.4 billion citizens in the new social credit system using AI and big data

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

China is currently the most populous country in the world. As part of its effort to keep its 1.4 billion citizens in check, the Chinese government has developed a new “moral” system that ranks its citizens as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ based […]

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Health / HealthTech / Medical News

Here is The Spartacus Covid Letter That Everyone is Talking About

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

Below is a public document posted by an anonymous person or a group of individuals who call themselves Spartacus. The letter, which is a PDF document, contains 14 pages followed by another 17 pages of references. Because the document is anonymous, […]

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SEC charges two people for wash trading scheme involving options of “meme stocks”

Nickie Louise Posted On September 27, 2021

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today it has charged a Florida resident and his friend for engaging in a fraudulent scheme designed to collect liquidity rebates from exchanges by wash trading put options of certain “meme stocks” […]

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Isotropic Systems lands over $37M in additional funding to develop multi-link antenna for the satellite industry

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

Isotropic Systems, a UK-based tech startup developing low-power, fully-integrated terminals for the satellite industry, announced today it has raised over $37 million in a Series B financing round for the development of multi-link antennas through to product launch in 2022. […]

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Top 10 Startup Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

Over the past four years, we’ve witnessed and seen many startup failures. In December 2017, we even wrote about: Tech startups that failed in 2017. All too often, startups fail because they try to sell something that nobody needs or wants. Properly […]

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AI navigation tech startup Phiar lands ex-Google executive as CEO; raises $12 million in new funding

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

Phiar (pronounced “fire”), an AI navigation startup that is on a mission to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, announced today that Google’s head of Android automotive platforms Gene Karshenboym has joined the company as the new CEO. Phiar’s co-founder and […]

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Facebook suspends the plan to build “Instagram for kids” after a WSJ report showed that Facebook knew Instagram is harmful to teenagers

Nickie Louise Posted On September 27, 2021

Facebook announced Monday that it’s holding off its work on Instagram for kids after the company faced a slew of backlash from users and lawmakers. In a statement, the social giant said, “While we believe building ‘Instagram Kids’ is the right […]

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Elon Musk talks about moving to Mars. “There’s a “70% chance I go to Mars and there’s a good chance of death”

Daniel Levi Posted On September 27, 2021

Elon Musk has been talking about colonizing the Red Planet for over a decade now. Little did we know that Elon Musk was planning to move to Mars himself. In an exclusive interview for “Axios on HBO” in 2018, Elon Musk […]

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Futuristic / Technology News

Newly unearthed patent reveals how Google plans to monitor household activities, including how long you brush your teeth

Nickie Louise Posted On September 26, 2021

Would you like Google to know how long you brush your teeth? A newly unearthed Google patent provides us with a closer look at how Google plans to monitor our household activities. Filed five years ago, the new Google patent application gives […]

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Cue Health, a little-known tech startup used by Google for at-home Covid-19 testing, is now a $3 billion company traded on Nasdaq

Nickie Louise Posted On September 25, 2021

Cue Health is a little-known San Diego-based tech startup that most people may not be familiar with even though the company has been in business for eleven years. For over a decade, Cue has been developing and manufacturing professional and consumer […]

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Top Chinese diplomat says China “must be prepared to make the FIRST nuclear strike” in response to growing US presence in the Pacific to defend Taiwan

Daniel Levi Posted On September 24, 2021

A top Chinese diplomat Sha Zukang said that China must be ready to use nuclear weapons and should abandon its ‘no-first-use’ policy to push back against new alliances forming in the Pacific and if the United States continues to defend […]

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Ocrolus bags $80M in funding to automate document processing for banks and fintechs; now valued at over $500 million

Nickie Louise Posted On September 24, 2021

Even as technology continues to disrupt many industries, the financial and mortgage sectors still have a long way to go. For example, the current mortgage process is cumbersome and time-consuming, rife with filling out complicated documents which take days and […]

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Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes break up after 3 years together

Nickie Louise Posted On September 24, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes have gone their separate ways after three years of relationship. The artist and the SpaceX founder were together for 3 years before they ended their relationship. In a statement, Musk told Page Six saying, […]

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Progress acquires New York-based load balancing and application delivery tech startup Kemp for $258 million in cash

Daniel Levi Posted On September 24, 2021

Progress, a tech company that offers software for creating and deploying business applications, today announced it has acquired New York-based tech startup Kemp for $258 million in an all-cash deal. The acquisition is expected to close in October 2021. In a statement, the […]

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China declares all virtual currency transactions illegal, sending bitcoin price to fall below $42,000

Daniel Levi Posted On September 24, 2021

Remember back in June when China crackdown on cryptocurrencies? Bitcoin lost 7% of its value, falling as low as $32,105 after China banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services through cryptocurrency transactions. Now China is back in the news as it […]

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Health / HealthTech / Medical News

Former Notre Dame professor and vocal supporter of mRNA vaccines on social media, died 12 days after taking the third Pfizer booster shot

Daniel Levi Posted On September 23, 2021

According to the New York Times, serious covid infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare. However, a recent Times analysis of data which “spanned the period from the start of the vaccination campaign until mid-June or July 2020, found that at […]

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Bill Gates says vaccines are the best investment he’s ever made, revealed he invested $10 billion in Gavi, the Global Fund, Vaccine Alliance, and GPEI

Daniel Levi Posted On September 23, 2021

Over the past decade, billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been criticized for pushing Big Pharma vaccines and medicines on regions of Africa with disastrous results. Some people even used Gates’ own words to accuse him of using new vaccines […]

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Israeli cybersecurity tech startup Panorays secures $42 million in Series B funding to revolutionize third-party security

Daniel Levi Posted On September 23, 2021

Hardly a day goes by without another headline of cyber-attacks and data breaches. Companies around the world are losing billions of dollars to cybercriminals. Governments and customers are also holding these companies into account forcing them to tighten their security measures. […]

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