Hyperscale storage startup Nyriad Limited announced it has closed a US$8.5 million in Series A funding round, bringing it to a total of over US$11 million raised to date. The funds will be used to support the continuing expansion of the […]
Walmart Inc’s technology incubator, Store No 8, has acquired a virtual reality startup Spatialand as part of its tech makeover to build virtual reality (VR) products for the retailer’s stores and websites. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The […]
Apollo is the world’s first graphene battery power bank. It is the world’s first portable power pack using graphene composite battery and USB C PD technology. It supports up to charge at 60W, which means the battery with capacity of 6000mAh […]
Boeing today announced its investment in Berkeley, California-based startup Cuberg, Inc. The startup was founded in 2015 by former Stanford University researchers, Mauro Pasta and Richard Wang. Cuberg takes a radical new approach to safer and longer-lasting next-generation battery technology for potential aerospace and […]
According to a report published in TheConversation, the independent news source from the academic and research community, ongoing advancement in camera will soon allow us to see through fog, inside the human body and even behind walls, and could be used by […]
San Jose California-based startup, Light Field Lab, has just raised $7 million seed round from top-tier venture firms Sherpa Capital and Khosla Ventures to develop real holograms without a headset. Founded in 2017 by ex Lytro engineers: Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) biotech startup, XtalPi, announced today it has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million led by Sequoia China, with participation from Google and existing investor Tencent. XtalPi will use the funding to develop new computational models […]
Confirm.io, a government ID authentication startup that digitally authenticates government identification, said on its website that it agreed to be acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The entire Confirm.io’s team will move to Facebook after the acquisition. The Confirm.io posted the […]
Techcyte, a deep learning image analysis solutions startup, has partnered with Motic, a leading provider of whole slide scanners, to provide advanced solutions for scanning, image analysis, workflow and reporting. As part of the partnership, Techcyte will sell the MoticEasyScan Pro […]
TMunity announced it has raised $100 million in Series A financing from Be The Match BioTherapies, a subsidiary of the National Marrow Donor Program, a patient advocacy group, Sean Parker’s Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, drug giant Gilead Sciences and […]
Today, Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) division announced it has invented a new unit of time called Flick. Flick is used to measure the speed of digital audio and video. A flick (frame-tick) is a very small unit of time. On […]
The future of grocery shopping is here. Amazon is introducing its first cashierless grocery store called Amazon Go. It is a grocery store without checkout lines. The sensor-infused store and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle. Amazon makes […]
We’ve all read about how one can generate light from solar, batteries and even potato. What about if there is a way to generate light with just a tea candle? Luminiser is a lantern to generate powerful LED light from […]
Hanson Robotics, the first startup company to develops the world’s most humanlike robots, is working toward building trust between humans and robots. The Company and its founder, Dr. David Hanson, has built a worldwide reputation for creating robots that look and act […]
Have you ever thought of captured everything around your world in 360 degrees? Fitt360 might just be the right camera for you. Fitt360 is neckband wearable camera that lets you capture and share your moments in 360° true First-Person-View in unobtrusive […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, January 15. Autonomous Driving Startup Pony.ai Raises $112 million. Pony.ai, a startup that builds autonomous driving solutions, has closed a Series A funding round of $112 million. […]
The AI systems built by Chinese retail giant Alibaba and Microsoft have outperformed humans in the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), Alibaba’s AI program was the first to beat the human score. Using natural-language processing, Alibaba’s machine-learning network model scored 82.44 on the […]
Ubenwa is a Nigerian Artificial Intelligence (AI) health startup that is saving newborn lives by enabling quick and cost-effective diagnosis of birth asphyxia from infant cry. Birth Asphyxia, meaning lack of oxygen, is one of the top 3 causes of infant […]
Welcome to the brave new world of true driverless car. General Motors (GM) has asked federal regulators to approve an autonomous car with no steering wheel, brake pedals, accelerator “or other unnecessary controls.” The company said Thursday. The interior of the new […]
Signal, the opensource company behind the encrypted communications application, has partnered with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype. In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft will now introduce a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol. Signal uses standard cellular mobile […]
