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Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase &lone wolf,& Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton Schoolclassroom. The Grammy-winningrecording artist is struggling to remember the name of &that actor,& the one whohad a successful career in both the entertainment industry

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To keep up with the growing sizes of early-stage funding rounds, Y Combinator announced this morning that it will increase the size of its investments to $150,000 for 7 percent equity starting with its winter 2019 batch.

Based inMountain View, Calif., YC funds and mentors hundreds of startups per year through its 12-week program that

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Blok.Party, the company that built the upcoming PlayTable game console, announced today it raised $10 million in new funding. Italso unveiling a big content partnership, where Blok.Party will create its own version of the popular board game Settlers of Catan.

I first wrote about Blok.Party and PlayTable earlier this year, when co-founder

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Urban-X, the urban-tech startup accelerator backed by MINI andearly-stage urban-tech fund Urban.Us, hosted a demo day today for its fourth cohort of companies at its Brooklyn HQ. The seven presenting companies offered solutions to issues plaguing modern cities, including toll-road pricing, energy and construction management, and even

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This December a set of autonomous vehicles will start roaming the streets of Columbus, Ohio, in an effort to turn this bustling Midwestern community into the first smart city. The project, which is part of the Smart Columbus and DriveOhio initiatives, is the first step in launching a fully autonomous shuttle route in the city.

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Think Ethereum and other crypto coins are overvalued Now you can make money when their prices fall via Compound, which is launching its money market protocol for shorting cryptocurrencies today. The Coinbase and Andreessen Horowitz-funded startuptoday opens its simple web interface allowing users to borrow and short Ethereum, 0xZRX,

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