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Entocycle grabs $5 million for its insect breeding technology

TechCrunch

In addition to contributing money, those sports professionals help startups with team-building advice and mentorship. While Entocycle has been around since 2016 , the team of 21 people will now try and commercialize its products. This new French VC firm is partnering with current and former athletes to invest in tech companies.

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YC and a16z back virtual reality basketball app Gym Class

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spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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7 investors discuss augmented reality and VR startup opportunities in 2020

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The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. On the hardware side, the ghost of Magic Leap’s formerly hyped glory still looms large.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

With its focus on hardware and software for public elections, VotingWorks is different from Adida’s previous electronic voting system efforts, including Helios , an online voting system Adida said is best used in closed elections like those for university-level student body governments or corporate boards of directors.

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Top 7 Gaming Trends and Technologies in 2024

Openxcell

Gaming can be streamed efficiently on the cloud server without the need for powerful hardware. As cloud gaming eliminates the need for high-end hardware, it enables remote access to games. Developers will also benefit from cloud-based gaming as they will not have to spend as much on maintenance and hardware upgrades.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past two decades, tourism has boomed thanks to attractions such as the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built and Game of Thrones shooting locations, and employment has risen steadily in the city since 2016, according to Northen Ireland’s Department for the Economy.

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

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Joyride , a micromobility software provider, has opened up a hardware marketplace to help operators build up their fleets. Saswat Panigrahi , who joined Waymo in 2016 and was most recently vice president of strategy, product management and data science, is taking the CPO spot. Rebecca Bellan. A little bird.

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