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In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices in use. Today, the number stands around 35 billion, and is expected to eclipse 75 billion by 2025. IoT devices range from connected blood pressure monitors to industrial temperature sensors, and they’re indispensab

Back in 2018, a struggling Sphero needed a change. Post-Disney IP deal, life hadn't been easy for the Colorado robotic toy firm, so it looked to a potentially lucrative new sector: STEM education. History, as Mark Twain may or may not have ever said, rhymes. The source of the quote is uncertain

Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 mlion seed round. The round includes a total of 30 funds and angels, including the likes of Sequoia Capital India, B

""> "" role="presentation" data-qa="message_content"> ""> "" data-qa="message-text"> "" data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> ""> "" dir="auto"> "">I was in Berkeley a couple of months back, helping technewss get its proverbial ducks in a row before our first big climate event (coming in a few weeks, folks

Planet FWD, a carbon-assessment startup founded by Zume Pizza co-founder Julia Collins, grabbed another cash infusion in the way of 10 million Series A dollars to continue developing technology so that the $1.5 trillion consumer products industry can more accurately measure and reduce their carbon

How small is Northwestern University's robot crab? It's sit-on-the-side-of-a-penny small. It's half a millimeter wide — making it even smaller than a common flea. Researchers behind it have determined a fairly simple way to control it remotely — when heat is applied to the system, i

You probably know Dyson for their vacuums, or maybe that too-powerful dryer you've tentatively stuck your hands in while waiting for a flight. Maybe you've seen their hair dryers or fans. Dyson is a company that develops premium products that move air around. Basically, if they don't su

The process of diagnosing and tracking the progression of neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s is often long and imprecise, involving surveys, hospital visits and in-person observations that experts must interpret on the fly. NeuraLight claims it has built a better way, one that uses nothi

Robotics are playing a growing role in the world of e-commerce logistics and fulfillment — where they are seen not just as a way to speed up operations but to drastically reduce the costs of running them — and today a startup developing software and hardware specifically in the area of

Timed to align with Build 2022, Microsoft today open sourced tools and datasets designed to audit AI-powered content moderation systems and automatically write tests highlighting potential bugs in AI models. The company claims that the projects, AdaTest and (De)ToxiGen, could lead to more reliable

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has confirmed a penalty for the controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI — announcing a fine of just over £7.5 mlion today for a string of breaches of local privacy laws. The watchdog has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering Clea

Blood pressure, body temperature, hemoglobin A1c levels and other biomarkers have been used for decades to track disease. While this information is essential for chronic condition management, these and many other physiological measurements are typically captured only periodically, making it difficu

Jiajun Zhu, co-founder and CEO of autonomous robot company Nuro, joined technewss onstage during TC Sessions: Mobility on Wednesday to discuss how the startup aims to revolutionize commercial autonomous delivery. The company is most well-known for its cute self-driving delivery vehicles, which ope

Benchmarks are as important a measure of progress in AI as they are for the rest of the software industry. But when the benchmark results come from corporations, secrecy very often prevents the community from verifying them. For example, OpenAI granted Microsoft, with which it has a commercial rela