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Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties

TechCrunch

Hover — which has built a platform that uses eight basic smartphone photos to patch together a 3D image of your home that can then be used by contractors, insurance companies and others to assess a repair, price out the job, and then order the parts to do the work — has raised $60 million in new funding.

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British Self-Driving Car Maker Wayve Revs Up With Whopping $1B SoftBank-led Round

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billion in a SoftBank -led round, marking one of the largest funding deals on record for a British startup and signaling continued investor fervor for all things artificial intelligence. London-based self-driving car startup Wayve has raised $1.05 Wayve has now raised $1.3 billion, per Crunchbase.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

Artificial intelligence-powered remote patient monitoring wearable technology. ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. HEXA – Unique immersive OS with 3D tech stack to create, manage, display and analyze 3D projects.

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10 Key Trends of Digital Transformation in Healthcare in 2022

OTS Solutions

At the heart of this shift are AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), IoT, and other cloud-based technologies. There are also significant cost savings linked with artificial intelligence in health care. Nobody had any idea what it could do for them in the near term.

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Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding

TechCrunch

The basis of their technique is turning widely available 2D imagery into accurate 3D representations with machine learning, a bit of smart guesswork, and a lot of computing power. Using all this it creates a plausible 3D reconstruction of the building. But that also necessitates the aforementioned 2D-to-3D method. Blackshark.ai

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Travel Fraud Protection: Key Types of Travel Scam, Protective Measures, and Software to Consider

Altexsoft

In 2019, the travel and hospitality industry accounted for a whopping 10.3 Besides, due to the specific nature of the industry with high-value one-off payments, a big number of businesses across the world, and rapid customer consumption of services, the travel and hospitality sector is a huge target for fraud. percent of global GDP.

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Proxi is making digital maps cooler

TechCrunch

Some of the company’s early users — including Seattle news station King 5, production company Traveling While Black in Seattle , event coordinators, influencers and foodie bloggers — are replacing listicles with maps of favorite hangouts, restaurants and places to see and be seen.

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