Pure Harvest Smart Farms, a startup developing technology-enhanced greenhouses for agricultural developments across the Middle East, has received a commitment of up to $100 million from Wafra, Kuwait&
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).During the March 9 launch of
03:28 As hospitals across the United States brace for a surge in patients stricken with the coronavirus, several facilities are already experiencing shortages in essential medical supp
Editor's Note: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 12. As of April 4, about 200 countries and regions have confirmed over 1,000,000 cases, with more than 50,0
ADDIS ABABA, April 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Saturday reported three new confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total cases in the east African country to 38.
Health officials and experts from China's Hubei Province on Friday held a video conference with their Irish counterparts to share their experience in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, said the
U.S. stocks rallied on Thursday as hopes for a truce in the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and a cut in oil output drove gains, taking some sting out of a shocking jump in Americans filing
Against a backdrop where the life-or-death consequences of biotechnology innovation are becoming increasingly apparent as the world races to develop vaccines and therapies to treat COVID-19, life scie
04:45 With COVID-19 posing a rising threat to India, how does the country react with limited medical rescue capacity and resources? What has been done to stem economic fallout? And aft
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Yesterday we explored what the SaaS world thinks about churn. A cohort of SaaS exe
Development of artificial intelligence agents tends to frequently be measured by their performance in games, but there’s a good reason for that: Games tend to offer a wide proficiency curve, in
A container ship travels along the Elbe to the container port on March 31, 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. /VCG Euro zone manufacturing activity collapsed last month as breaks in global supply chain
On-orbit satellite refueling technology is closer than ever to a practical reality, which could help immensely with the cost and sustainability of orbital businesses. Startup OrbitFab, a 2019 TechCrun
Virtual reality has been two years away from mainstream adoption for the past six years. In that time, huge companies have made big VR bets only to walk away, countless VR startups have faded or flare
Palo Alto Networks announced today that it has an agreement in place to acquire CloudGenix for $420 million.CloudGenix delivers a software-defined wide area network (SD
CGTN Among the drugs used for COVID-19 is a particularly promising Cuban compound called "Interferon alfa-2b," which has been successfully administered to Chinese patients.In Cuba, where preca
In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most opportunity in the space leading into 2020.At the time, respondents hi