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Sustainable tech startup Motiv Power Systems raises $15M in Series C funding to provide electric-powered intelligent chassis and accelerate customer expansion

Nickie Louise Posted On August 24, 2020

Motiv Power Systems, a Silicon valley-based sustainable technology company delivering all-electric chassis with a proven software platform for the electrification of medium-duty trucks and buses, today announced that it has secured $15 million of additional funding from GMAG Holdings Corp. The […]

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Health / Technology News

Coronavirus therapeutic breakthrough: FDA approves emergency use of convalescent plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Nickie Louise Posted On August 23, 2020

The deadly coronavirus, that started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has so far claimed over 800,000 lives worldwide with over 180,000 deaths in the US alone. As the race for the vaccines continues, today, the FDA announced the emergency […]

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Watch King of Bahrain with his Robot BodyGuard in Dubai, UAE

Nickie Louise Posted On August 22, 2020

Who needs a human bodyguard when you can just get a robot? Below is a video purportedly featuring Bahrain’s King, Hamad bin Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa, and his ‘robot bodyguard.’ The eight-foot robot bodyguard known as Titan was first featured last […]

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Health / Social Media

“Coronavirus response a ‘massive policy screwup’ but not Trump’s fault,” renowned Harvard historian Niall Ferguson says

Nickie Louise Posted On August 22, 2020

With coronavirus claiming at least 800,000 lives worldwide, it is now clear that the world’s governments were caught unprepared by the coronavirus pandemic. Here in the U.S., many people blamed U.S. President Trump for over 180,000 Americans who died from […]

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Health

“Coronavirus vaccine alone won’t end the pandemic. …no guarantee that we will even have one,” WHO warns in a new gloom and doom message

Nickie Louise Posted On August 21, 2020

The deadly coronavirus has killed at least 793,983 worldwide. Since the beginning of this year, scientists and researchers have been working around the clock in collaboration with government and health agencies to find a cure for the virus. With more than 22.85 […]

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Health / Research

Lockdowns are killing more people than the coronavirus, death records from doctors around the world show

Nickie Louise Posted On August 21, 2020

For months, doctors and other medical experts have been warning about the negative impacts of lockdown measures put in place by governments around the world. During those times, there was no concrete data to support their warnings. Now for the […]

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Silicon Valley-based AI startup Birdie launches with $1.6M seed funding to transform market research industry

Nickie Louise Posted On August 21, 2020

Birdie, the Palo Alto-based tech startup that is on a mission to revolutionize how consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands like Samsung and P&G conduct market research, announced it has raised $1.6 million seed round to support its expansion in the US, where […]

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Singapore-based tech startup FarEye secures $37.5 million Series D funding to expand its delivery logistics platform used by DHL and Amway

Nickie Louise Posted On August 21, 2020

The global logistics market is projected to reach $12.256 trillion by 2022. However, carriers and shippers continue to face challenges like delivery delays, lack of flexibility, inaccurate addresses, and first attempt failures negatively impact customer experience and profitability of courier, […]

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Tesla closes above $2,000 for the first time, now worth more than Walmart. Stock went from $220 to over $2,000 in just one year

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

Tesla stock is on a tear. For the first time in the history of the electric car company, Tesla closes above the $2,000 mark. The world’s most valuable automotive company is now valued at $373.06 billion as of today’s market […]

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Crypto lender BlockFi raises $50M Series C funding to provide digital asset-backed loans to crypto investors

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

We wrote about BlockFi back in August 2019 ago after the crypto lending startup launched in California expanding its lending footprint to 44 states. BlockFi is now the largest and most widely accessible crypto-to-USD lender in the U.S. BlockFi has seen […]

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Meet Lucyd Lyte, the prescription smart glasses with voice-controlled social media

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

Lucyd Lyte is aiming to be a revolution in smart eyewear, by being the first Bluetooth frame that can be worn all day, every day, by prescription glasses wearers. Lucyd’s mission of providing natural, useful technology upgrades to ergonomic eyewear. […]

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Featured / Space / Technology News

Blue Origin’s Human Landing System (HLS) team delivered engineering mockup of its astronaut lunar lander to NASA

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

Over the past three days, we’ve been covering development in the space startups as SpaceX raised $1.9 billion in funding from Fidelity and other investors. Prior to that, we also wrote about Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos, as the defense technology […]

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Cloud / Technology News

Rescale accelerates enterprise high-performance computing (HPC) with two key executive appointments

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

Rescale, a Silicon Valley-based tech startup that offers a software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives, underscoring the company’s commitment to accelerate global science and engineering breakthroughs […]

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Japanese lunar lander startup ispace raised $28M in Series B funding to develop micro-robots to find resources necessary to extend human life into outer space

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

With the recent success of SpaceX after it became the first private company to successfully carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, investors are now pouring millions of dollars into space startups. One of these startups is the Japanese […]

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Garwood Medical Devices raises $4 million Series C funding to help patients suffering from bacterial biofilm infections

Nickie Louise Posted On August 20, 2020

Infection is the most serious complication of joint replacement. 2.2 percent of prosthetic hip or knee replacements develop infection over the lifetime of the prosthetic joint resulting in treatment costs over $12B annually. Garwood Medical Devices is a Buffalo, New York-based […]

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Health / Research

Americans are “blinded from science” about the real truth of coronavirus. New Franklin Templeton research blames COVID-19 ignorance on social media misinformation and partisanship

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2020

The deadly coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has killed at least 750, 000 people around the world. With six months into the pandemic, you would have expected people to have a better understanding of the virus […]

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SpaceX’s worth skyrockets to $46 billion after $1.9 billion funding boost from Fidelity, others

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2020

Last month, we wrote about SpaceX after it was reported that Elon Musk’s space company was in talks to raise $1 billion funds at a $44 billion valuation. Now according to the latest SEC filing, SpaceX has raised $1.9 billion in funding. […]

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Health

Just wearing face masks could be “very dangerous,” Sweden’s top infectious disease expert says

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2020

For months, we’ve been told to wear face masks and practice social distancing. That seems to be working here in the United States. However, Sweden is one of the few European countries that has not yet recommended the use of face masks […]

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Dynetics races against SpaceX and Blue Origin, aiming to be the first private company to return astronauts to the moon

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2020

Probably not many people have heard of Dynetics, a defense technology company that has done a wide array of work for the Pentagon and NASA. On December 17, 2019, Dynetics was acquired by defense contractor Leidos for $1.65 billion as Leidos seeks growth opportunities […]

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates blames Americans’ belief in freedom for poor response to coronavirus pandemic

Nickie Louise Posted On August 19, 2020

With the war against Great Britain looming, on March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his most famous speech and said, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me freedom, or give me death!” It […]

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