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The Rounds scoops up $24M to bring its ‘household restocking’ delivery service to more markets

The Rounds, the startup that delivers recurring grocery and household essentials in reusable packaging, announced on Monday its $24 million Series B funding round. The new capital will go toward product development, hiring, and expanding the service to additional markets. … Continue reading

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Eppo lands new cash to grow its app, website and AI experimentation business

Eppo has closed a new funding round that values the company at over $100 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle and aerospace companies, but Beyond Math is putting AI on … Continue reading

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Markforged adds metal printing to its industrial 3D printer amid economic struggles

The world of metal 3D printing has been in-flux this past year, the most notable example being Nano Dimension’s acquisition of Desktop Metal. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M seed funding

NASA and the space industry are in agreement: if we want to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, we’ll need to make use of every native resource we can — and none are as important as water ice.  … Continue reading

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Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery

AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there’s plenty of that in research and academia. Reliant hopes to specialize in the kind of time-consuming data extraction … Continue reading

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Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy fraud case, is missing after yacht capsized off Sicily (updated)

Update: Authorities have yet to access the inside of the sunken yacht, and Mike Lynch is still classified as missing. Other details have emerged in the interim. The accident appears to have been caused by a major storm and a … Continue reading

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US tech giants fight Indian telcos’ bid to regulate internet services, pay for network usage

Global technology giants are pushing back against attempts by India’s telecom networks to bring internet services under stricter regulation, rejecting arguments that such measures are necessary to create a “level playing field” and address national security concerns. The Asia Internet … Continue reading

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Pakistan’s PostEx to enter new markets, starting with Saudi Arabia

Pakistani startup PostEx is entering Saudi Arabia as first global market after hitting $21 million ARR in the South Asian nation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Demand for AI is driving data center water consumption sky high

The AI boom is fueling the demand for data centers and, in turn, driving up water consumption. (Water is used to cool the computing equipment inside data centers.) According to FT, in Virginia — home to the world’s largest concentration … Continue reading

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