In its continued effort to catch up with the United States, China announced on Sunday it has successfully launched and landed an experimental reusable spacecraft. Lauded the achievement as an “important breakthrough,” China state-run Xinhua news agency said the spacecraft was launched on […]
Back in June, we wrote a piece about Lift eFoil, a motorized hydrofoil surfboard that lets riders experience flight over almost any body of water at up to 25 mph, with no waves required. The Lift eFoil leverages advances in lithium-battery technology […]
We wrote about AnyVision back in January 2019 after the AI-based visual intelligence software startup announced new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Qualcomm Ventures to accelerate growth. AnyVision is an AI design and development company that specializes in face, object, and human […]
You can have whatever you want if you are a billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Back in December of last year, we told you about Tesla after the electric car company announced the plan to build 500,000 electric vehicles […]
Early last month, we told you about the new coronavirus vaccine that was developed by Russian scientists. At the time, Russia announced it has completed the clinical trials of a vaccine against COVID-19 and will be made available for emergency […]
In late June, we covered a story about the India government after it banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Since then tensions between China and India have escalated amid border disputes in the Himalayas. In June, a border […]
Always-on smart sensing products such as IoT and IIoT devices, smart speakers, voice-activated TV remotes, and hearables, consume a large amount of power and eventually drain batteries. These devices are continuously consuming power while waiting for triggers such as voice to […]
On Tuesday, we wrote about Tesla after the electric car maker said it would raise up to $5 billion through a new stock offering. Then on Wednesday, the company’s largest outside shareholder said it has reduced its position due to portfolio […]
California’s wildfires, which started on August 19, 2020, continue with no end in sight. California firefighters continue to battle the unprecedented blazes but staffing shortages have made it difficult to contain the fire. “Fire season is lasting longer. Fires are getting […]
Biofourmis is a Boston-based digital therapeutics startup that powers personalized predictive care. The startup uses wearables to track whether drugs are effective. Biofourmis is part of a small but growing group of venture-backed start-ups looking to augment traditional medicines with digital technology, […]
Each year, 27 million hospital patients worldwide are placed on a feeding tube for life-saving measures. But it might come as a surprise to learn that most feeding tubes are placed blindly resulting in 3-5% being placed in the lungs, […]
PicnicHealth, a San Francisco-based healthtech startup that makes medical records easy to access by using data to power the next frontier of medical research, has raised $35 million in equity financing to accelerate medical research based on real-World data. The round includes […]
TikTok deal hits a new roadblock today as China places restrictions on technology sales. According to a new report from Bloomberg, a new Chinese restriction could complicate the sale by requiring approval for TikTok to sell its algorithm. Citing people familiar […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
