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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX. This latest round comes after NEX raised an $8.5

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

TechCrunch

Embark conducted a public demo to show how its autonomous trucks would interact with emergency vehicles and law enforcement in Texas. . The breakdown looks like: 6,397 P7 sports sedans, 3,608 P5 smart family sedans and 1,519 G3i smart compact SUVs. million and a massive net loss of $1.2 Net loss for the quarter was $377.2

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Pear hosted its invite-only demo day online this year; here’s what you might have missed

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based seed-stage venture firm that has, from its outset, attracted the attention of VCs who think the firm has an eye for nascent talent , staged its seventh annual demo day earlier this week, and while it was virtual, one of the startups has already signed a term sheet from a top-tier venture firm. Website: wagr.us. rePurpose Global.

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Gradually, then suddenly

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

I stopped in at an Oakland sports bar recently, and what did I see on the menu but an Impossible Burger. Their demo involves someone playing the old Asteroids computer game without touching a keyboard, using machine learning to interpret the nerve signals that are sent to the hands. Neural interfaces. One of my biggest “Wow!”

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Software Engineering Daily: Feature Flags with Edith Harbaugh

LaunchDarkly

Their MVPs give demos. is a sports app. They do a lot of video streaming of sports events. Depending on the day, the number one sports app, even ahead of ESPN. We built an integration with Visual Studio and presented it two-and-a-half years ago now at Microsoft Build, their big developer conference. They blog about us.

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What Are ChatGPT and Its Friends?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Bard Google’s code name for its chat-oriented search engine, based on their LaMDA model, and only demoed once in public. It’s so important that the inventors originally wanted to call Transformers “Attention Net” until they were convinced that they needed a name that would attract more, well, attention.

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AoAD2 Chapter 5: Invest in Agility

James Shore

Track progress through teams’ demos (see the “Stakeholder Demos” practice) and expect each team to ship early and often. Agile is a team sport, and despite paying lip service to teamwork, many companies have policies that unintentionally discourage it. Look for a steady stream of value, whether that’s revenue or something else.

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