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Neurala, With More Cash, Advances A.I. for Drones, Self-Driving Cars
Artificial intelligence software firm Neurala cut its teeth developing technology for government entities, including working on advanced navigation software for NASA’s planetary exploration robots....
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With $29M in New Cash, Echodyne Advances “Radar Vision” for Machines
[Updated, 5/23/17, 5:50am. See below] One of the Northwest’s most intriguing startups has a new wad of cash. Bellevue, WA-based Echodyne said it has raised $29 million in Series B funding led by New...
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Boston Tech Watch: Leerink, E14 Fund, Jobcase, Freight Farms & More
This week in Boston tech, we’re tracking a new $313 million growth equity fund for digital health companies, more money for an MIT Media Lab fund, layoffs at Freight Farms, and the arrival of another...
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Healthcare + A.I. Northwest on Nov. 9: Agenda Highlights
Artificial intelligence—the catchall term for a broad swath of technologies imbuing computer systems with the capacity to perceive and act—is poised to upend industries across the economy. But nowhere...
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What Are the Nation’s Top Cities and Regions for Driverless Tech?
View the Slideshow Whether you think self-driving cars are the stuff of science fiction or a potentially paradigm-shifting new form of transportation, autonomous vehicles are coming—and the companies...
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GV Tops Off $74.5M Haul for Paper Digitization Startup Ripcord
The co-founders of Hayward, CA-based startup Ripcord got together in 2015 to solve a mundane problem that plagues every office: big piles of paper records. To do that, they had to make use of the...
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Amazon Go Reviews: Praise for Shopping Speed, Caution Around Privacy
Whole Foods has always been on the bleeding edge of improving the efficiency of the grocery store checkout. The New York Times praised the chain a decade ago for its single-line strategy, which other...
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Tome, Trek, Ford Collaborate on Bike-to-Vehicle Safety Standards
Last fall, Royal Oak, MI-based software startup Tome teamed up with Ford and Wisconsin’s Trek to work on B2V (bike-to-vehicle) technology that will help self-driving cars to better perceive cyclists...
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U-M Students, Faculty Building Driverless Shuttle with Industry Help
Late last month, the University of Michigan-Dearborn unveiled a new autonomous shuttle project called MDAS.ai, in which students and faculty will build a driverless vehicle for low-speed,...
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Mitek Systems Building New Business in Verifying Online Identities
A few years before the presidential election of 2016, with all its Wikileaks, Russian disinformation campaigns, and phony Facebook links, San Diego’s Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK made a strategic...
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Data Centers on Wheels: How Intel Plans to Capitalize on Mobility
Intel sealed its commitment to become a player in the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry when it bought computer vision company Mobileye for more than $15 billion in 2017. The venerable Santa...
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Intel CEO Resigns After Board Learns of His Relationship With Employee
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced Thursday that CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned in the wake of the company’s recent discovery that he had been involved in a past consensual relationship with an Intel...
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With $8M in New Capital, Vayavision Refines Raw Data Fusion for AVs
The race to get driverless cars on the road is a global endeavor, and one nation putting its pedal to the metal is Israel. A host of Israeli companies are working to develop the technologies that help...
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Occipital Reaches Turning Point with New 3D Sensor for Drones, VR
Occipital, the San Francisco-based spatial computing startup, first planted its flag in computer vision tech five years ago when it released a plug-in sensor, billed as the first 3D sensor created for...
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Diffbot’s A.I. Engine Draws Global Map of Machine Learning Expertise
A year ago, the leading Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings pegged the global number of artificial intelligence researchers and professionals at 300,000 or less—just as the unmet demand for such...
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AlwaysAI Adds $4M to Bring Deep Learning to Embedded ‘Edge’ Devices
Many of our devices, from wearables to medical instruments to drones, can capture reams of images. Using algorithms to analyze those images on the devices, in turn, generally takes loads of computing...
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Self-Driving Cars in Boston Blinded by Solar Glare at Traffic Lights
Solar glare is making it tough for some self-driving cars being tested in Boston to read whether traffic lights are red, yellow, or green.MIT spinout NuTonomy said that on some recent occasions, the...
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Women Who Code in Houston, Sam’s Club, Springdale & More TX Tech
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.—Sam’s Club Now, the Dallas-based innovation center where Walmart’s bulk buying business is located, says it has a new scanning technology that...
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Affectiva Raises $26M to Get Self-Driving Cars to Know Your Mood
The vision of a hands-off, self-driving car demands much more than accurate computer vision that senses cars, trees, lanes, pedestrians, bicyclists, roads, potholes—all in sun, rain, and snow. But the...
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Seattle Algorithm Marketplace and Manager, Algorithmia, Snags $25M
Algorithmia was founded on the idea that lots of people who write algorithms, from academics to private sector employees, have good products but no way to commercialize them. It launched in 2014 as a...
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