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Leading Edge Equipment has a technology to improve solar manufacturing and $7.6 million to go to market

Only a few weeks after the successful public offering of Array Technologies proved that there’s a market for technologies aimed at improving efficiencies across the solar manufacturing and insta

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California starts cutting power to homes to prevent fires

Photo: Xinhua California's largest utility, PGE Corp., has started cutting power to homes and businesses in efforts to prevent live wires from falling and sparking blazes as the state continue

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Feds arrest former Amazon employee after company reported him to FBI for fraud

Amazon today disclosed that a former employee has been arrested for committing fraud against the online retailer. The company says it reported Vu Anh Nguyen to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in J

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India building collapse: At least 13 dead, 25 feared trapped

At least 13 people were killed and up to 25 are feared trapped after a three-story apartment block collapsed in western India on Monday, officials said.Local residents cheered as emergency workers

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Explosive wildfires across California stoked by fierce winds

Wildfires raged unchecked across parts of the western U.S. on Wednesday amid gusty and dry conditions, but forecasters said some weather relief was in sight that could

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12 dead, dozens injured in Bangladesh masjid air conditioner blast

Twelve worshipers, including a boy, were killed and dozens of others suffered serious burn injuries after air conditioners of a masjid in Narayanganjon the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka explo

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'A Fitbit in your skull': Elon Musk shows off brain-reading chips in pigs

The billionaire entrepreneur says the three pigs with implants are "healthy, happy and indistinguishable from a normal pig".

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Musk's Neuralink venture unveils pig with computer chip in brain

Musk speaks on a webcast Friday. /Screenshot from the live Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig that has had a coin-sized computer chip

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20,000 paper birds help fund COVID-19 units at Belgium hospital

A flock of 20,000 multicolored origami birds has been installed in a cathedral in Brussels, Belgium, as part of a fundraising artwork that has paid for two COVID-19 units at a local hospital. Susp

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Lebanese police officer killed, 142 injured in anti-gov't protests after Beirut's deadly blasts

A Lebanese police officer was killed and 142 people were injured on Saturday in clashes during protests against the ruling class in downtown Beirut, days after massive

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Get your early bird pass to Disrupt 2020 — only 4 days left

You have just four days left to access the complete Disrupt 2020 experience for best possible price. You can save up to $300 with early bird pricing, but that’s a fleeting opportunity. Get it in gear

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VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices

I’ve been following consumer audio electronics company Nura with great interest for a few years now — the Melbourne-based startup was one of the first companies I met with after starting with TechCrun

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MIT creates a soft-fingered robotic gripper than could eventually tie knots and sew stitches

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has shared the results of a new project in which it built a two-fingered robotic gripper, which has soft pads for dedicated and fin

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Elon Musk sets update on brain-computer interface company Neuralink for August 28

Elon Musk said on Twitter this week that Neuralink, the company he founded in 2016 to develop computer-brain interfaces for the explicit purpose of helping humans keep pace with advanced artificial i

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China's Xinjiang improves power supply for remote farmers, herdsmen

Aerial photo taken on June 14, 2020 shows an electric transmission tower in Datung Township of Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Auton

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Tatch raises $4.25M to build a patch that helps diagnose sleep disorders

Sleep apnea is a huge problem across the U.S. world but is often under-diagnosed because getting a diagnosis often involves getting hooked up to numerous machines and sleeping under the supervision of

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How do several local news stations air virtually identical Amazon COVID-19 segments?

Simple: Amazon offers up the content free of charge. The company has been on the offensive in recent weeks, when it comes to how it’s handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon’s offered all sorts of blog