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Today, if a hematologist wanted to dive into the exact organization and structure of your blood cells, they’d probably need a microscope in a lab. Scopio, an Israel-based startup that just closed a $50 million Series C round, argues that soon, a lot of that work could be done with nothing more than a laptop. […]
Wondering where the Samsung Galaxy Note went? You now have your answer in the form of Samsung’s latest flagship device.
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It’s been a little under a year since Google and Samsung announced a joint wearables effort aimed at taking on Apple’s utter dominance of the category. It’s been clear from the beginning that such an effort wouldn’t happen overnight. Back in August, we got the first glimpse at “the new Wear OS Powered by Samsung,” […]
The Note is dead. After more than a decade, Samsung has officially closed the book on the transformative phablet. The brand will still exist, but only in a kind of liminal marketing capacity. “We’re thinking more and more of the Note as the experience,” a rep told me on a recent briefing call. As the […]
A new venture from space infrastructure company Momentus founder and former CEO Mikhail Kokorich aims to build a hypersonic aircraft for autonomous cargo delivery around the world. While the craft is far from completion, let alone testing and certification, a $29M seed round should help things along. The stated plan is to build a hypersonic […]
Hydrogen pioneers Verdagy — from “verde” for green, and “agy” for energy — raised $25 million from a fistful of strategic investors in the energy sector in a bid to take a messy, not-that-environmentally-friendly process of making hydrogen and replacing it with an industrially scalable solution with no nasties going into the air. It turns […]
European Union lawmakers have today presented a Chips Act: Their plan, trailed last fall, to bolster regional sovereignty in semiconductor production and supply chain resilience through a package of targeted support for chip production inside the bloc, including in areas like R&D and via funding for startups and scale-ups working on cutting edge tech in […]
You can’t swing an outdated Python manual in this town without hitting half a dozen app analytics suites, but the same cannot be said if you’re a product manager hoping to figure out where you lose customers for smart home hardware. Ex-IFTTT head of product Yana Welinder today launches Kraftful Analytics, giving folks building connected […]
Ahead of today’s Peloton earnings report, John Foley has announced that he is stepping down as CEO. The long-time chief executive will remain on as Executive Chair, with former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy stepping into his old role. “Barry is an incredible leader who has held senior executive roles at Spotify and Netflix and is […]
Ahead of today’s Peloton earnings report, John Foley has announced that he is stepping down as CEO. The long-time chief executive will remain on as Executive Chair, with former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy stepping into his old role. “Barry is an incredible leader who has held senior executive roles at Spotify and Netflix and is […]
In climate circles we spend a lot of time talking about manufacturing and power generation in the effort of cutting CO2 emissions. It’s pretty rare that I get a whiff of a company that has a clear path toward cutting global carbon emissions by a full percent — but that’s what Rondo Energy pitched to […]
In climate circles we spend a lot of time talking about manufacturing and power generation in the effort of cutting CO2 emissions. It’s pretty rare that I get a whiff of a company that has a clear path toward cutting global carbon emissions by a full percent — but that’s what Rondo Energy pitched to […]
Nvidia’s deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm’s owner SoftBank announced (PDF) tonight. SoftBank and Nvidia today agreed to drop their efforts to acquire Arm. With this, there is also a major leadership change at Arm. The company’s current CEO, Simon Segars, is leaving his post, effective today, with Rene Haas, […]
Look, I’ll admit that I had to Google how much a boat costs, but any time someone pitches a story saying they are trying to “democratize” a recreational activity with a product that starts at $300K, I’ve got to admit I’m wondering how much it costs to get a guillotine blade sharpened. My Robespierian misgivings […]
Look, I’ll admit that I had to Google how much a boat costs, but any time someone pitches a story saying they are trying to “democratize” a recreational activity with a product that starts at $300K, I’ve got to admit I’m wondering how much it costs to get a guillotine blade sharpened. My Robespierian misgivings […]
South Korean electronics giant Samsung has been banging its sustainability drum loudly over the past couple of years, with impacts that echo around its ecosystem. With slogans like “corporate citizenship” and a big push for environmentally friendly supply chains, materials and manufacturing, the company has been pushing for a greener world than before. As part […]
Oura wasn’t the first smart ring to market, but over the course of its life, the device has had surprisingly little competition. In general, it’s proven difficult for consumer hardware companies to find a toehold beyond the wrist. Though the brand’s relative success has no doubt raised hope that the fitness band/smartwatch isn’t necessarily the […]
A huge amount of energy use on our planet goes toward creating heat, and not only that, but a large amount of that energy is wasted and byproducts like CO2 blasted into the atmosphere. Modern Electron could change that with a new system that captures the emissions and produces clean hydrogen, right inside a home […]