Tel Aviv’s Orca AI, a computer vision startup that can be retrofitted to cargo ships and improve navigation and collision avoidance, has raised $13 million in a Series A funding, taking its total raised to over $15.5 million. While most cargo ships carry security cameras, computer vision cameras are rare. Orca AI hopes its solution could introduce autonomous…
Read more
Samsung announced Galaxy Upcycling a few years back, but has largely been quiet on that front, aside from some stage time at CES back in January. Today the company announced that Upcycling at Home is being opened to beta today for users in the U.S., Korea and the U.K. It’s a pretty novel program, in…
Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing a tsunami of new user adoption as a backdrop to prices likely bottoming at around $52,000, say analysts. In a series of tweets on April 20, statistician Willy Woo led calls for calm about Bitcoin’s recent price dip and subsequent lingering $9,000 below recent all-time highs. $1 trillion cap has created…
Read more
Quanta, one of Apple’s major suppliers, said on Wednesday that it had been hit by a cyber attack and was trying to “recover data” after one of the world’s most notorious hacking gangs said it was attempting to extort both companies. The Taiwanese company, which manufactures computers for Apple and also supplies companies such as…
Read more
Roche reported a 55 per cent jump in diagnostic sales in the first quarter thanks to strong demand for Covid-19 tests, including a new product to track virus variants. The Swiss pharmaceutical company’s diagnostic division had sales of SFr4.3bn ($4.7bn) on a constant currency basis, up from SFr2.9bn in the first quarter last year. Thomas…
Read more
Amazon buying output of 375-MW Birch solar project in Ohio | Renewable Energy World Home News Amazon buying output of 375-MW Birch solar project in Ohio No posts to display
Southern Power acquiring 118-MW Oklahoma wind project developed by Vestas’ NA unit | Renewable Energy World Home News Southern Power acquiring 118-MW Oklahoma wind project developed by Vestas’ NA unit No posts to display
Hi all — James here in Hong Kong. What is your standout quote of the week? This — from an executive struggling to secure a supply of computer chips — has to be mine: “If I am going to be impacted, I must drag my competitors down, too.” Such a dog-eat-dog environment is fuelling an…
Read more
It is easy to feel as if the coronavirus pandemic is getting out of control again. The rate of new cases hit a record last week, with 5.2m people around the world getting infected, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Three months ago, many in India were celebrating the prospect that the country was…
Read more
Restaurants rode a wave of usage of food delivery services like Deliveroo, Uber Eats and DoorDash in the last year, discovering new revenues and ways to connect with diners to offset the fact that in-person trade for many of them had disappeared overnight. But they also discovered something less appetizing: dealing with the mess of…
Read more