VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now Eargo, a company that makes “virtually invisible” rechargeable hearing aids that can be controlled with a smartphone, has raised $ 71 million in a series E round of funding. The raise comes as technology companies …
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VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now OpenSpace, a platform that helps construction teams track the progress of building projects through capturing 360-degree photos of construction sites, has raised $ 15.9 million in a series B round of funding led by Menlo Ventures. …
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Here’s what you need to know: Senate Republicans are expected to unveil a roughly $ 1 trillion virus aid plan. California and Texas are among the states setting new daily records. A map of coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. New unemployment claims in the U.S. rose last week for the …
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Despite citing the surge in coronavirus cases and economic fallout from the pandemic in California, Sutter Health failed to persuade a state judge on Thursday to delay the $ 575 million settlement it reached last December over accusations of price gouging and monopolistic practices. Sutter, which has already received hundreds …
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VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today Aryballe, a startup developing biochemical sensors, optics, and AI to collect and analyze odor data, today announced it has raised €7 million ($ 7.9 million). The funds will bolster product and machine learning R&D …
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VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today (Reuters) — Amazon plans to create at least $ 100 million in stock awards to retain the 900-plus employees of Zoox, the self-driving car startup it offered to buy last month, and can walk away …
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Creators of the 80 Million Tiny Images data set from MIT and NYU took the collection offline this week, apologized, and asked other researchers to refrain from using the data set and delete any existing copies. The news was shared Monday in a letter by MIT professors Bill Freeman and …
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Author’s Blurb: The issue of food waste has been talked about for as long as I can remember. You’d think that managing it would be a lot easier than managing inorganic waste, but somehow we as a species still struggle with it. On an individual level, not enough of us …
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It picked up the tab at Daniel and Peter Luger, but the inducements for doctors didn’t end with those New York restaurants. There were fishing junkets, golf outings and round-table events at Hooters. And then there were the six-figure honorariums that the Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. paid to several doctors who …
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