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Austin-based ICON awarded $57.2 million NASA contract for lunar construction tech

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ICON , a construction tech company that’s raised more than $400 million in funding, has landed a new contract from NASA to develop new systems to build on the moon and Mars. Indeed, the agency has explicitly stated that one of the goals of its ambitious Artemis lunar program is to establish a long-term human presence on the moon.

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Top 10 AI graduate degree programs

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News & World Report ranks the best AI graduate programs at computer science schools based on surveys sent to academic officials in fall 2022 and early 2023 in chemistry, computer science, earth science, mathematics, and physics. Here are the top 10 programs that made the list that have the best AI graduate programs in the US.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

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Similarly, clothing brand Under Armour recently produced an ad that used AI-generated 3D models of the British boxer Anthony Joshua, based on videos they took of him in the past. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. But it’s a perfect job for LLMs that collect information as you write your program.”

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Prefabs sprout: How Modulous helps housing developers build modular homes without factories

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startup that makes it easier for housing developers, architects and construction firms to configure and design modular homes to address the ongoing housing crisis , has raised £10 million ($11.7 For the construction phase, the kit of parts enables developers to produce large multi-tenant apartment blocks with minimal up-front investment.

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

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Investors include CCB Trust, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, GGV Capital and real-time communication solution provider Agora, a long-time partner of Cocos. Cocos is best known for its cross-platform, open source engine for 2D mobile games, but many have argued it has fallen behind in the 3D era.

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Building-code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding

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It also took part in Y Combinator’s summer 2017 accelerator program. The company’s paid customers include construction firms like Stantec and ARCO National Construction, architecture firms SOM and Ennead, and Airbnb, Cornell University and the State University of New York. trillion-dollar industry.

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A16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires

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Within 20 minutes, the team will have generated a high-resolution 3D model of the property down to the centimeter. These options can vary widely in cost, although some local and state governments have created reimbursement programs to allow homeowners to recoup at least some of the expenses of these improvements.

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