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Day: March 23, 2023
ATLANTIC-PACIFIC X LAKE PAJAMAS COLLECTION STYLING
Thanks so much for all the love for the Atlantic-Pacific X LAKE Pajamas collab that showed up yesterday! If you somehow missed the news, you can shop and see the entire sixteen-piece collection here. We’ve worked so hard to create a colourful, cohesive and comfortable collection that’s so cool you’ll find yourself wanting to wear it out of the house just as much as in! Today I wanted to show you a few ways I’m styling some of my favorite pieces and sets. Keep scrolling to see new ways to…
Pragma Bio is looking for cancer treatments hidden in our microbiome
The natural world has produced many of our most important medicines, but instead of looking under a leaf or a rock for the next big cancer drug, Pragma Bio is actually looking inside the human body—the swarms of microbes that live inside it. With a new approach and a new $10 million in funding, the startup hopes to begin the first part of a ten-year plan. The company is taking on a new identity – if the technology looks familiar, it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding in 2020…
Indian edtech giant Baiju is not acquiring Unacademy.
Indian edtech giant Bijus on Thursday said the company and any of its partners would not be involved in exploring an acquisition or merger with rival Unacademy, denying media reports as weakening global market conditions prompted several consolidation plays in the industry. Indian news outlet Moneycontrol earlier reported that Baiju’s physical tutoring unit Aakash is in talks to merge with Unacademy. “We strongly deny that Baiju Unacademy is planning to merge into Aakash Education Services. As a parent company, BYJU’S is committed to investing in the growth of Aakash Education…
The next generation connected IoT
Today, technical advances such as lower power chips, better connectivity, and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are opening up new use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT). Applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation are beginning. A McKinsey report shows that IoT products and services will generate between $5.5 trillion and $12.6 trillion in value by 2030. IoT solutions, however, come with complexities. These range from developing survey tools that provide secure cloud connectivity to generating insights for the end user. Semiconductor shortages and supply chain disruptions…
OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the Internet.
OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, can now surf the Internet — in some cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT that extend the bot’s functionality by providing access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on a waiting list, OpenAI says it will first prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers for its flagship ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger scale and API access. Easily the most interesting plugin is OpenAI’s first-party web-browsing plugin, which allows ChatGPT to…
Now is the time to invest in black-owned banks.
in the past For two weeks, it has joined the JPMorgans, Brexes and Wises of the World in millions of dollars in collapsed Silicon Valley banks from startup and investor bank accounts. As founders and investors continue to look for new places to put their money, it’s important to consider this time as an opportunity to start banking with a few black-owned banks. There’s Intrepid, founded by Collin Thompson, which works exclusively with businesses and global remote teams digitally. Thompson told TechCrunch+ that the company’s goal is to be a…
Former strip engineer raises $4M for Beam, a fintech startup to help contractors get paid faster.
Beam, a five-month-old startup that aims to help general contractors pay more easily and pay themselves, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Accel. Both the startup’s founder and lead investor previously worked at payments giant Stripe for years. Before starting Radiation In October 2022 Adam Eagle He spent five and a half years as a software engineer at a fintech company core APIs and infrastructure for Stripe billing, invoicing, commerce and payments. Amy SaperInvestor leader in the round It helped Build and grow Stripe’s product…
Investing in life science R&D by design
Issues affecting the global community have spurred innovation in the life sciences. Research in areas such as agricultural technology and virology can help address some of the challenges of climate change, which, according to Freeman, directly contributes to global instability. The big flashpoints of geopolitics in the next few years are likely to be around water, food, epidemics, energy. And the industry has had other measurable results. The UK life sciences industry has grown from £63.5 billion in 2016 to £94.2 billion in 2021. Guided by proven expertise and academic…
Innovation begins in the space industry
Space technologies are taking off in the UK alongside other new technologies such as quantum computing. Simon Phillips, chief technology officer of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), said: “I don’t think there is a way we can do universal space exploration and travel without quantum technology, if you will. “Too many to count.” “When we talk about space technology, I always think it’s too soon to add quantum,” Phillips said. Enabling space technology to include quantum “will involve building ground-based systems that can process more and more quantum information in ways…