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In Don Burnette and Paz Eshelview, trucking is the killer app for self-driving technology.

Itwhat led Burnette to leave the Google self-driving project and co-foundOtto in early 2016, along with Anthony Levandowski, Lior Ron and Claire Delaunay.

And itwhat would eventually prompt Burnette to leave Uber — the

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Healthtech continues to make impressive strides forward, but some pieces of the healthcare puzzle are still lagging way behind.

Communication is one of those pieces. But a startup called Klara, which just received $11.5 million in Series A, is looking to change that.

FirstMark Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors Lerer

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While this animated fellow looks like something out of NBA 2K18, itreally an AI thatlearning how to dribble in real time. The AI starts out fumbling the ball a bit and by cycle 95 it is able to do some real Harlem Globetrotters stuff. In short, what you&re watching is a human-like avatar learning a very specialized human

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Evolute, a 3-year old startup out of Mountain View, officially launched the Evolute platform today with the goal of helping large organizations migrate applications to containers and manage those containers at scale.

Evolute founder and CEO Kristopher Francisco says he wants to give all Fortune 500 companies access to the same technology that big

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WhoCanFixMyCar, the U.K. online car repair marketplace, has secured £4 million in new funding. Backing the startup is Shell Ventures — the corporate venture arm of Shell — in addition to chairman Sir Trevor Chinn (who previously chaired the boards ofAA, Kwik Fit and RAC), Active Partners, and Venrex Investment Management.

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Flux, the London fintech that has built a software platform to offer merchants digital receipts, loyalty, card-linked offers and analytics, continues to sign new partnerships in a bid to solve its ‘chicken and egg& problem. That is, it needs bank integrations to sign up merchants and it needs merchant integrations to sign up banks.

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