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Why Parts of the World Are Scared of Digital Currencies

Nickie Louise Posted On September 2, 2020

Digital currencies have certainly become popular over the last few years. However, they are still not widely accepted. The fact is, many places are scared of the coins, with some countries banning its use altogether. In this article, we’ll talk […]

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Drones / Press Release / Technology News

FAA Selects New York UAS Test Site to Participate in Next Phase of Drone Integration Program

Nickie Louise Posted On September 2, 2020

Program outcomes will enhance capabilities and services that support advanced, high-density drone operations on a national scale. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced two new participants for phase two of the unmanned aircraft traffic management pilot program (UPP) – The […]

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Cybersecurity / Featured / Hacking / Security / Technology News

Seattle-based Cloudentity secures $13 million Series A funding to secure and prevent attack on API-centric and cloud-native applications

Nickie Louise Posted On September 2, 2020

As cloud technology matures, organizations began to move away from monolitic architecture, which is a set of tightly coupled processes that run as a single service, to a more robust architecture known as microservices. Unlike monolithic architecture, the distributed microservices […]

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Health

Dr. Fauci contradicts CDC’s updated guidance that shows just 6% of reported US coronavirus deaths are caused by ONLY COVID-19. ‘There are 180,000-plus deaths’ in U.S.

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news after the successful surgery to remove a polyp on his vocal cord. In his latest comments on Tueday, Dr. Fauci contracts the […]

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Energy / Environment / Technology News

Is this the end of fossil fuel era?: Presidential candidate Biden vows to ‘End Fossil Fuel.’ “I guarantee you. We’re going to end fossil fuel,” Biden says

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

In 2016, 80% of the total world energy came from fossil fuels, 10% biofuels, 5% nuclear, and 5% renewable (hydro, wind, solar, geothermal). Only 18% of that total world energy was in the form of electricity. Most of the other 82% […]

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Google launches its first accelerator for women-led tech startups – here are the 12 startups chosen to participate in the inaugural cohort

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

Back in April 2019, we wrote an article titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her gender. […]

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Health / Research

The CDC now claims that 94% of all coronavirus deaths had more than one pre-existing conditions or co-morbidities, meaning less than 10,000 Americans have died ONLY from COVID-19

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

Two days ago, we wrote about the recently updated provisional death counts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The death count was for the reporting period 2/1/2020 through 8/22/2020. The updated report has sparked debate about who […]

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Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency / Ethereum / Featured / ICOs / Technology News

The US government is planning the creation of a Digital Dollar Wallet by 2021. Could this be the end of Bitcoin?

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

In early March while everyone was busy talking about coronavirus, the U.S. Senate quietly introduced a bill to create “digital currency accounts administered by the Federal Reserve.“ According to the draft, the bill will require banks to maintain pass-through digital […]

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Tesla to sell up to $5 billion in stock offering to further firm up its growing cash position

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

Tesla has exploded for a rally of more than 500% since January of this year. Amid its incredible stock rally, the Elon Musk-owned electric car company said it will sell up to $5 billion in stock, according to a new Securities […]

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Featured / Technology News

Erasca raises an additional $36 million in Series B funding round to treat and erase cancer

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

Erasca, a San Diego, Californa-based biotech startup that has its mission embedded in its name (erase cancer), today announced it has closed an additional $36 million of its Series B funding round to finance the clinical development of multiple promising […]

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Featured / Robotics / Startup Funding / Tech Startup News / Tech Startups

Sarcos Robotics raises $40 million in Series C funding for the production of industrial exoskeleton robotic systems

Nickie Louise Posted On September 1, 2020

The global powered exoskeleton market is expected to exceed $11.5 billion by 2030 with full-body, powered industrial exoskeletons comprising almost 50% of that amount, according to research firm ABI Research. Sarcos Robotics is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based robotics startup that develops […]

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Disgraced German payments startup Wirecard goes bust; plans to sell assets to London-based Railsbank

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

The last time we wrote about Wirecard was back in April 2019 after SoftBank invested $1 billion for a 6% stake in the German payments startup. Fast forward a year later, Wirecard collapsed and filed for bankruptcy in June after revealing […]

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Featured / Technology News

U.S. Government to pay the State of South Carolina $600 million in a settlement to remove 9.5 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium stored at Savannah River Site

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

In May 2019, U.S. federal officials finally revealed that roughly 12 metric tons of surplus plutonium is being stored at the Savannah River Site. The revelation puts an end to a nagging question that has long been the subject of […]

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Featured

People are rushing to invest in Apple and Tesla after stock split; Tesla is now worth $0.44 trillion

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

On August 20, Tesla closed above $2,000 for the first time valuing the company at $373.06 billion. 12 days earlier, Tesla announced a 5-for-1 stock split, which takes effect today. Today, Apple also announced its stock split. Apple split its stock 4-for-1, while […]

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Drones / Emerging Technology / Featured / Technology News / Transportation

Amazon receives FAA Approval to operate its Prime Air drone delivery fleet

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

Amazon on Monday announced it has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones. In an announcement on Monday, the FAA said the approval will give Amazon broad privileges to “safely […]

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Featured / Launch / Smart Car / Space / Technology News

Japan’s drone startup SkyDrive demonstrates the first successful test flight of flying car in Japan

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

Air taxis are no longer the things you see in fiction movies. Welcome to the future of flying cars. Japan’s drone and robotic startup SkyDrive becomes the first company to demonstrate the first successful test flight of a flying car […]

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Health / Research

Gilead says 7% of COVID-19 patients on Remdesivir developed acute kidney injury. Gilead also says in its clinical data that “It’s NOT yet known if Remdesivir is safe and effective for the treatment of COVID-19”

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

We’ve been following Gilead’s remdesivir (sold under drug name Veklury) for over five months now. In April, Remdesivir’s study was touted by Dr. Anthony Fauci as a smashing success. Gilead’s stock also soared after the news. A lot has changed since […]

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Biotech startup Pyramid Biosciences raises $28M in funding for the advancement of its TRK modulator clinical programs in oncology and dermatology

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

Pyramid Biosciences, a Boston-based biotech startup developing new precision therapies focused on the modulation of cell surface receptors, today announced it has raised $28 million in funding to accelerate the growth of Pyramid Biosciences’ programs focused on novel tropomyosin receptor […]

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Swiss fintech startup Expense Robot rebrands to Yokoy; launches Yokoy Mastercard

Nickie Louise Posted On August 31, 2020

We covered Expense Robot back in March after their seed-round-announcement when the Swiss fintech startup raised $1.79 million to automate expense and business credit card processing using AI. A lot has changed since then. In an email to TechStartup early this […]

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Health / Research

90% of people tested positive in 3 states barely carried coronavirus. Stunning new research finds C19 PCR tests are much too sensitive to be useful in assessing coronavirus spread

Nickie Louise Posted On August 30, 2020

The United States now has at least 6,157,483 confirmed cases of coronavirus with over 187,000 deaths reported, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. As part of its effort to slow the spread of coronavirus in the United States, the […]

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