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Y Combinator backedZbioticshas spend two years developing what they&re billing as theworldfirst genetically engineered probiotic. The startupinitial product isn&t exactly world-changing but it might just save your day — given they&ve invented an elixir of ‘next day& life: Aka

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The pre-social media phenomenon that was early 2000s American Idol might be a weird place to spend a lot of focus when it comes to thinking about the future. But italso worth noting how little these types of shows adapted to build themselves into the fabric of live social commentary. Twitter has offered a nice second screen for thirsty

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Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, is announcing a whopper of a round this morning: $50 million in Series B funding from Financial Technology Partners, Panorama Point Partners and Operative Capital. The company had earlier raised only

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Riding on a wave of an explosion in the use of machine learning to power, well, just about everything is the emergence of GPUs as one of the go-to methods to handle all the processing for those operations.

But getting access to those GPUs — whether using the cards themselves or possibly through something like AWS — might still be too

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In a letter to backers today, Bay Area-based Mayfield Robotics said it was &crushed& to announce that it has ceased manufacturing of its home robot, Kuri. The note finds the Bosch-backed business grappling with an uncertain future, as it pauses all operations and re-evaluates its future.

Launched in 2015, as part of Bosch&s

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Quantum computing may be a long ways off, but early applications of it aren&t as far off as you might think, according to longtime researcher and ColdQuanta founder Dana Anderson.

The startup creates a device thatdesigned to make it easier to start operating quantum computing-like operations on near-term problems like signal

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