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Daily Crunch: Hackers pinched LastPass customers’ encrypted password vaults, parent company admits

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If you like the great outdoors : Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform, acquired Fatmap, a 3D mapping platform for the great outdoors, to make that next hike a doozy, Paul reports. New companies in this sector raised around $600 million last year, a steep decline from $800 million in 2021.

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4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups

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If this momentum held in the past six months, funding into the sector would meet or exceed the $306 million invested in all of 2021, despite the slowdown last year. What will be key in helping companies produce sustainable products at scale?

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Top 10 AI graduate degree programs

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In computer vision, the AI group faculty are developing novel approaches for 2D and 3D scene understanding from still images and video, low-shot learning, and more. The machine listening faculty is working on sound and speech understanding, source separation, and applications in music and computing.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

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Ukraine’s startup ecosystem was thriving before the war and making great progress, with Ukrainian startups raising $832 Million in VC funding in 2021. from a year earlier, and brought in more than $6 billion in revenue, more than $542 million the revenue generated in 2021. It has now moved to Poland and set up the office there.

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Ambi Robotics secures $32M infusion to deploy its item-sorting robots in warehouses

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Dex-Net, short for Dexterity Network, is an AI system that trains on thousands of images of 3D models of objects. According to Crunchbase, more than $17 billion poured into VC-backed robotic startups in 2021 — nearly triple the investment in 2020.

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

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million Series A in 2021, and it said that in that time, it’s tripled revenues with customers in five continents and more than doubled its headcount to about 100, with more than half of those engineers and data scientists. . LiveEO had previously raised €5.25 ” All of this is also still a relatively new field, Przywarra added.

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What is transformational leadership? A model for motivating innovation

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Emmanuel Faber, Danone: Faber started out as an architect for Danone and earned the CEO job after he helped develop the company’s vision to turn the company into a sustainable health and nutrition company.