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Unicorn Bio is building the hardware to scale cultivated meat from lab to table

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“Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. . “Using this legacy hardware to cultivate meat requires one to reengineer the cells. ” Of course it’s not like these companies with big money are just buying stuff off the shelf. It’s just raised $3.2

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

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The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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Extra Crunch roundup: cohort analysis, YC Demo Day recaps, building your supply chain

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To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers credit and debit cards ; developer-friendly APIs make issuance relatively easy, and tools for managing processes like KYC are available off the shelf. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Anu Muralidharan, COO, Expensify.

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Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out its full-stack quantum orchestration platform

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Quantum Machines , the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today announced that it has acquired QDevil , a well-known Danish company that specializes in building control hardware for quantum systems. Image Credits: Quantum Machines. “It’s really all of that.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

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Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data

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This means that data is collected much closer to ordinary internet infrastructure and can be handed off for cloud-based processing and storage more easily than before. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. It may not be obvious that cameras won’t get better, since we’ve seen such advances in recent generations of phones.

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