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How new public transportation technology is prioritizing passenger safety

CIO

So it’s not surprising the recent Bipartisan Infrastructure Law earmarked $91 billion in guaranteed funding for public transportation , with priority areas of public safety, climate, transport equity and investing in new public transportation technology. Learn how technology can help provide passenger safety and security in public transport.

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SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video

TechCrunch

“We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”. Firework’s new round is a chance to grab more of that market share and invest in its technology and product development, especially with a shift toward web3.

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Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech

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Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix

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All I knew was that I wanted to start my own company and sell things on the internet. They were much smaller and thinner than their VHS counterparts, and this technology innovation unlocked a new form of video rentals. But how did it go from sending that one CD to becoming the juggernaut that it is today?

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Daily Crunch: Sources say Times Internet plans to sell Indian streaming platform MX Player to Amazon 

TechCrunch

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Game on : Amazon is in talks to acquire Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet, Manish reports. Daily Crunch: Sources say Times Internet plans to sell Indian streaming platform MX Player to Amazon by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch Where you headed?

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Daily grabs another $40M so developers can add video, audio features to any product

TechCrunch

We’ve all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge to build both real-time audio and video features into products. The most interesting trend we’re seeing is that new use cases for video and audio are showing up every week,” Hultman Kramer said.

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Robotics founders: Build your pitch deck around problem-solving, not technology

TechCrunch

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. The deck and video are embedded below. “If We were surfing the internet like any good venture capital group, and we ran across the video that Agility released,” says Leak. “We