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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

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Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. ” How the FirstBuild product co-creation studio is changing how new things are made Prelaunch is founded on the core belief that the current practices in hardware product development basically haven’t changed in the last 100 years.

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Humane, a stealthy hardware and software startup co-founded by an ex-Apple designer and engineer, raises $100M

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Tiger Global Management is leading the round, with SoftBank Group, BOND, Forerunner Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures also participating. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. This is a Series B, and it’s coming from some very high-profile backers. One sign of where all that funding will be going.)

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

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Enter LiquidStack , a company that’s spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware technology developer Bitfury Group with a $10 million investment. It’s one of the major criticisms of cryptocurrency operations and something that many in the industry are trying to address.

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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

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In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. Fill that pit lest you fall in : Over on TC+, Haje explores 7 common pitfalls for hardware startups and how to avoid them. Lorenzo has more.

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Intel spins off enterprise AI company Articul8 with outside funding

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Articul8 AI will be led by Arun Subramaniyan, formerly vice president and general manager in Intel’s Data Center and AI Group. One of the first organizations to use Articul8 was Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which runs it in its data centers for enterprise customers requiring enhanced security.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Want to Deploy AI Securely? New Industry Group Will Compile AI Safety Best Practices

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A group that includes the Cloud Security Alliance, CISA and Google is working to compile a comprehensive collection of best practices for secure AI use. Comprehensive guidelines are forthcoming from the AI Safety Initiative , a new group led by the Cloud Security Alliance that was launched this week. Fill out this form.

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“Los coches se están transformando en móviles sobre ruedas”

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El software es el elemento clave de esa transformación”, señaló José María Recasens, director de Estrategia y presidente de Renault Group Iberia. Si antes el software correspondía al 10% del coste unitario por vehículo, en unos años éste será el 50%. Los coches se están transformando en móviles sobre ruedas”, destacó.

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