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Massachusetts startup OPT Industries is perfecting a 3D-printed nasal swab for COVID-19 tests

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A May 2020 survey of 118 labs in the U.S. One small company that stepped into the fray of swab production was the two-year-old OPT Industries, a Massachusetts-based company with 15 employees involved in additive manufacturing (think 3D printing) of dense microfiber structures. As COVID-19 surges, 3D printing is having a moment.

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

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Venturo, a hobbyist Ethereum miner, cheaply acquired GPUs from insolvent cryptocurrency mining farms, choosing Nvidia hardware for the increased memory (hence Nvidia’s investment in CoreWeave, presumably). Initially, CoreWeave was focused exclusively on cryptocurrency applications. Intrator says it has over 30 members.)

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

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Ambi Robotics , a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, with participation from Ahren and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. based Pitney Bowes fulfillment centers.

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

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For example, Diamond Age’s robotics-as-a-service system combines 3D printing, mechatronics and robotics to backfill the massive labor shortage and drive construction cycle times down,” she said. ” Read the full survey for more in-depth answers by these investors about the opportunities and issues in construction tech.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

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While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below. However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech.

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

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TechUkraine and Emerging Europe also published the results of a survey looking at the country’s start-up ecosystem. Deus Robotics specializes in full-cycle projects, including hardware engineering, software development, and integration, focusing on automating warehouse and logistics operations.