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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Between our on-board CPUs and your mobile phone companions we have an enormous amount of data on transportation routes, where riders want to pick up scooters in the morning and where they leave them in the evening. Scooters crush this situation.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

By storing these encrypted fragments across a distributed network of devices, it can secure data collected on the edge and have application within Satcoms, Defence and Enterprise.” Description: “Starfish Space aims to create an on-demand, in-space transportation and maintenance service for orbiting satellites.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF).

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

TechCrunch

InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. That was crazy.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

TechCrunch

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software.

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Extra Crunch roundup: TC Mobility recaps, Nubank EC-1, farewell to browser cookies

TechCrunch

update, which does away with automatic opt-ins for data collection, and Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies do not signal a death knell for digital advertisers. Image Credits: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm (opens in a new window). CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.

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Chasing Cruise and Waymo, Chinese AV company AutoX plans to begin testing in San Francisco

TechCrunch

The center will be responsible for vehicle housing, maintenance and charging, as well as processing data collected by the cars locally and calibrating their sensors. AutoX is hiring to build out its local San Francisco team, according to AutoX’s CEO Dr. Jianxiong Xiao, who also goes by Professor X.