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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

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Our survey respondents think the ecosystem is strong in sustainable energy, medtech, food tech, life sciences, marketplaces, deep tech, gaming and media. However, they seem to think it’s weaker in design, hardware, fintech, robotics and agritech. What is it weak in? Digital, gaming, e-health, edtech, sustainability.

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German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor

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Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: Instead of building machines that replace humans altogether, build hardware that humans can wear to supercharge their abilities. The Cray X currently can compensate up to 30 kg for each lifting movement, the company says.

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

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While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Throughout my career at Textron, I have had many roles, spanning supply chain, manufacturing, integrated product teams, and working on helicopter programs. From that point forward, I was fortunate enough to lead both the IT and OT teams within global pharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chain organizations. Look at Tesla.

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

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A collaboration between Stability AI, media creation company RunwayML, Heidelberg University researchers, and the research groups EleutherAI and LAION, Stable Diffusion is designed to run on most high-end consumer hardware, generating 512×512-pixel images in just a few seconds given any text prompt. Stable Diffusion sample outputs.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

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Not a bad thing, but as a result, there are few “hungry” tech entrepreneurs. In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. Strong B2B, weak B2C, lots of SDG focus. E-commerce is booming here post-COVID, where before it was rather weak. What other types of products/services are you wary or concerned about?

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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

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Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. As TC readers know, the tricky trade-off of the modern web is privacy for convenience. On-device reranking.

Mobile 252