AMP Robotics raises $55 million for AI that picks and sorts recyclables
AMP Robotics, a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that sort recyclable material, this morning announced that it has closed a $55 million series B funding round led by by XN. The startup says it’ll use the funding to scale its business operations and develop new AI product applications that integrate into materials recovery facilities […]
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India’s CRED raises $81 million, buys back shares worth $1.2 million from employees – TechCrunch
Bangalore-based CRED is kickstarting the new year on a high note. The two-year-old startup, led by high-profile entrepreneur Kunal Shah, said on Monday it has raised $81 million in a new financing round and bought shares worth $1.2 million (about 90 million Indian rupees) from employees. The Series C financing round, as first reported by […]
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Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs (Josh Ye/South China Morning Post)
Josh Ye / South China Morning Post: Behind the success of Tencent’s Honour of Kings, a League of Legends-like mobile title launched in 2015, which became the first game in history to hit 100M DAUs — Honour of Kings was created after Chinese gaming giant Tencent failed to convince League of Legends’ creators to develop […]
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Evolve: Operationalizing diversity, equity, and inclusion in your AI projects
Over the past couple of years, the field of AI has been awash in concerns over ethics and fairness in AI. At the same time, the world has awakened to the deep-seated, structural problems of racial injustice. The two are inextricably linked. AI is one of the most powerful technological transformations we’ve seen — part […]
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T-Mobile says hackers accessed some customer call records in data breach – TechCrunch
T-Mobile, the third largest cell carrier in the U.S. after completing its recent $26 billion merger with Sprint, ended 2020 by announcing its second data breach of the year. The cell giant said in a notice buried on its website that it recently discovered unauthorized access to some customers’ account information, including the data that […]
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Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Interview with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais on leveraging the Atari brand, including through hotels and virtual clothing, shipping the VCS console, more — Under CEO Fred Chesnais, Atari is a company with just 28 employees. That’s pretty small for the oldest brand in video games. Source link
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