Month: June 2022

There’s also the new Undertow Spillway map. A former flood bypass now transformed into a skirmish zone, the abandoned facility offers all kinds of high- and low-ground areas. And because those lower levels appear pretty open while the higher platforms look like ramps, I can see this being a favorite among the community. Or, at
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Detroit-based Airspace Link has positioned itself as a provider of increasingly important infrastructure in the burgeoning drone services space, letting operators get local and federal approval quickly. With $23 million in new backing, the company now plans to take its platform to other countries looking to get their drone industries off the ground. The company’s
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Strapi, an open source content management system (CMS), today announced that it raised $31 million in Series B funding led by CRV with participation from Flex Capital, Index Ventures, and angel investors including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. With the capital, CEO Pierre Burgy tells TechCrunch that the plan is to launch a new product,
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Lev Kerzhner Contributor Lev Kerzhner leads Saragus Agency, which provides corporate storytelling services to startups, companies, entrepreneurs and investor groups. Over the past two years, I’ve designed dozens of presentations for a variety of companies at various stages of fundraising — from startup SAFE rounds, to VC rounds and IPOs. In this article, I will
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Vignesh Chandramouli Contributor Vignesh Chandramouli, a partner at Oak HC/FT, focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. For years, automation has been a key driver of transformation across industries, changing the way companies and entire sectors operate. However, healthcare, a $4.1 trillion industry, has fallen behind. For an industry that constantly innovates,
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Despite the demand for platforms that let developers experiment with different versions of apps, the infrastructure required remains relatively complex to build. Beyond data pipelines and statistical methods, and experimentation infrastructure relies on analytical workflows often sourced from difficult-to-configure cloud environments. Plenty of startups have emerged in recent years to abstract away the app experimentation
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Gearset, a tooling provider for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding tranche led by Silversmith Capital Partners. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Boyle said that the new money will be put toward expanding Gearset’s product offering, growing its sales and marketing functions, and scaling the team across the U.S. and
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There’s been a massive proliferation of fintech services in the past few years, during which fintech companies competed to develop new products more quickly than their competitors. Nowadays, the race between fintechs has much more to do with consolidation and which companies can build a holistic, “one-stop-shop” by bringing those different products onto one platform.
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Nothing has confirmed that its debut smartphone, the Phone 1, won’t be getting a widespread release in the US or Canada, PCMag reports. Instead, a “limited number” of the devices will be distributed to community investors in the country as part of a “closed beta,” Nothing said in a statement. It added that it hopes
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That clip and quotes above are missing a bit of the conversation; the actual segment from his podcast runs a little longer, and Cruz says in full (I’ve removed a little bit where they go off-topic): Video games are designed to be addictive. Now, I’m something of a gamer, I’m not a gamer like hardcore
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If you’re looking for an affordable laptop alternative, Chromebooks are a great option to consider. Yet there are several kinds on the market these days, and it can be overwhelming to pick the right for you and your needs. Some are better suited toward basic work tasks, for example, while some of the higher-end models
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U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is still “hopeful, positive and in fact bullish” that Congress can agree on “a significant push into clean energy,” despite the regulatory body’s virtual gridlock on issues like climate. Before Congress breaks for August recess, Democrats have said they hope to reach a deal on a budget reconciliation bill. Effectively
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Forget about keeping Austin weird. Let’s talk about keeping Austin fast. I’m talking about one of the top five fastest cities in the country for internet speed kind of fast.  The speed-testing site Ookla keeps track of the top cities in the US for median download speeds, based on millions of tests run daily by
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If you’re trying to pick out the best smart speaker for your home, your decision will likely come down to price, size and audio quality, as well as the specific voice assistant you’d like to use. Just about all of your options will let you turn on the lights, play music, ask a question, set
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