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Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base

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” In its crudest terms, the former category includes businesses focused on things like hardware and manufacturing; the latter, software and financial services. In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously posed the distinction between companies that deal in “atoms” versus those that deal in “bits.”

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From edge to cloud: The critical role of hardware in AI applications

CIO

It is becoming increasingly important in various industries, including healthcare, finance, and transportation. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

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Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO

Technology has quickly become a top priority for businesses across every industry. Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. Average salary: US$131,995 Increase since 2021: 0% 2.

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PaintJet is building big industrial robots for big industrial paint jobs

TechCrunch

Here in the States, the $2 trillion industry employs around eight million people — that’s nearly one New York City. Construction may well prove to be the next major focus for robotics investment.

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AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

TechCrunch

AllSpice , a collaborative hub designed for hardware development, came out of private beta on a mission to build a DevOps ecosystem inspired by GitHub. They bonded over frustrations at their respective jobs in what seemed like a hardware industry left behind to rely on PDFs and email to get things done versus software development.

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5 lessons robotics founders can learn from the AV industry

TechCrunch

Throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, the autonomous vehicle industry captured the imagination of the startup community and the public. Meanwhile, the broader robotics ecosystem has continued to flourish, with companies focused on mostly industrial “ vertical ” use cases now commanding the bulk of investment dollars.

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