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Sources: US Cyber Command is deploying offensive malware in Russia's power grid, using powers granted in 2018 by Congress and a secret presidential directive — WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin … | Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
NIST study: a widespread GPS outage would have an estimated $1B/day impact on the US economy; 90% of GPS' financial impact has come since 2010 — 90 percent of the technology's financial impact has come since just 2010. — Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global Positioning System technology … | Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Jack Dorsey on plans to hire a team of five engineers and one designer, reporting directly to him at Square, to work on contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem — NO JERKS ALLOWED. — Square is a company best known for its disruptive card payment technology.
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Farming-as-a-service startup Infarm raises $100M Series B for its remotely operated modular farms placed in grocery stores, restaurants, other urban locations — Infarm, the Berlin-based startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores and restaurants, is disclosing $100 million in in Series B investment.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Developers say they have mixed feelings about the “Sign In With Apple” button and Apple's decision to make it mandatory for apps with other sign-in systems — APPLE ISN'T ALWAYS the first company to introduce a particular product or service. But when it does finally decide …
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The holding company that owns the dating apps Bumble, Lumen, and Chappy has been renamed as Magic Lab, says it will spend $100M on an array of new dating apps — 'We're looking for the big, big monsters who can partner with me,' billionaire behind Bumble says in an interview| Fabiola Moura / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank is leading a $300M investment in Gympass, a fitness app giving employees at 2,000+ companies access to ~47K partner gyms worldwide, at a $1B+ valuation — - Brazilian fitness startup makes gym workouts more accessible — SoftBank wants to build global champions out of Latin America
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Lemonade, the digital insurance company that has raised $480M, is expanding into Europe, with its first launch in Germany — Lemonade, the insurance company that's raised $480 million, is today expanding into Europe with the launch of Lemonade in Germany. — As part of the launch … | Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post: |
Waterdrop, a Tencent-backed Chinese online health care platform, raises a Series C of over $145M led by private equity firm Boyu Capital — Funding will go toward building a professional team in health care insurance and adopting AI in its products China is home to the world's third largest insurance market …
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Edge Case Research, which is developing AI-based safety assessment tech for autonomous vehicles, raises $7M seed round led by Aurora CEO Chris Urmson and ANSYS — Chris Urmson and ANSYS to invest in Edge Case Research — “Making autonomy safe” is perhaps one of the hardest nuts for designers …
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ADDI, a Colombia-based point-of-sale lending startup, reveals it had raised $12.5M Series A from a16z in April, following $3.8M in seed rounds since Sept. 2018 — Andreessen Horowitz <3 Latin American startups. — Latin America is the only region outside of the U.S. where the venture firm … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based video game developer Novaquark, which had raised $11.4M on Kickstarter in 2018 for its Dual Universe MMO game, has raised $11.2M in VC funding — French video game developer Novaquark has raised $11.2 million in funding for its fan-created Dual Universe science fiction massively multiplayer online game.Sponsor Posts
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