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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

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An organ-on-a-chip is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: it’s a recreation of a human organ (or system of human organs) scaled down into a tiny piece of hardware about the size of a AA battery. Emulate was founded in 2013 and has, so far, raised about $255 million in funding.

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OtterTune, which taps AI to optimize databases, raises $12M

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” Pavlo says that he was inspired to launch OtterTune after he became a professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 2013. “This was … right around the time powerful machine learning technologies became more accessible with open source frameworks and hardware acceleration.

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The Actual Feature and Cost Analysis Of An App like Naukrigulf, Bayt

Xicom

Candidates and even job recruiters find it hassle-free to post a job with all the details like specification and qualification required, and job-seekers can easily find a job that meets their interest and qualifications. Here’s a handful of advantages that a job portal app like Naukrigulf offers for both – recruiter and job seeker.

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Ahead of planned IPO, Knightscope’s CEO discusses opportunity and controversy

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Founded in 2013 by William Santana Li, a Ford executive, and Stacy Stephens, a former Texas police officer (the co-founders of police vehicle firm Carbon Motors), the Mountain View-based firm has risen to national prominence with its high-profile surveillance robots. The most powerful solution is software+hardware+humans.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

In addition to running our robotics coverage, I also run TC’s hardware coverage overall, including all the consumer news and reviews. Robotics has always been capital-intensive and requires investment in hardware as well as software. We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. Yes and no.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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The report added that this was the highest number it had recorded since it began tracking relocation trends in 2013. Peloton is a good example of this, with the at-home fitness hardware giant skyrocketing through the pandemic before falling back to Earth with an almighty bump when people ventured into the great outdoors again.

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#define CTO OpenAI

Greg Brockman

We had dinner with Alan Kay, who regaled us with Xerox PARC stories of building the Alto and “living in the future” by using hardware that would cost $1,000 in a decade. Founding team # Because Ilya was still at Google, he was unable to help recruit. I was new to AI, and it wasn’t clear how to find and recruit great researchers.