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    • Health Data Analytics Institute, which provides an AI-powered service to predict health care outcomes, announces $16M round, which it will use to launch an API (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Health Data Analytics Institute, which provides an AI-powered service to predict health care outcomes, announces $16M round, which it will use to launch an API  —  Making sense of disparate data is a task at which AI excels.  Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI) is a case in point … Health Data

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    • Atlanta-based supply chain tech company Dematic acquires UK-based logistics automation software company DAI for ~$133.5M, as Dematic parent KION completes deal (Jessica Saunders/Atlanta Business Journal)

    Jessica Saunders / Atlanta Business Journal: Atlanta-based supply chain tech company Dematic acquires UK-based logistics automation software company DAI for ~$133.5M, as Dematic parent KION completes deal  —  Supply chain technology company Dematic is expanding its software offerings with the acquisition of a UK-based company that specializes in logistics automation software. Atlanta-based supply chain tech

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    • Online classifieds company OLX Brazil, a leading player in Brazil's digital real estate ads, has agreed to buy rival Grupo ZAP for $642M in an all-cash deal (Terje Solsvik/Reuters)

    Terje Solsvik / Reuters: Online classifieds company OLX Brazil, a leading player in Brazil’s digital real estate ads, has agreed to buy rival Grupo ZAP for $642M in an all-cash deal  —  OSLO (Reuters) – Online marketplace OLX Brazil has agreed to buy competitor Grupo ZAP for 2.9 billion reais ($642 million) … Online classifieds

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    If coffee == true {

    Having a shared coffee maker in the workplace is both a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to have constant access to coffee, but it can be frustrating to find the coffee pot emptied right as you walk in to the break room. To solve this problem in their office, [Vitort] and co. built an

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    • Interview with Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra, who admits the fund made many investment mistakes and denies he smeared other high-ranking SoftBank executives (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

    Alex Sherman / CNBC: Interview with Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra, who admits the fund made many investment mistakes and denies he smeared other high-ranking SoftBank executives  —  – Rajeev Misra, who leads SoftBank’s Vision Fund, has largely been quiet as criticism has mounted. Interview with Vision Fund chief Rajeev Misra, who admits the fund

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    • How North Korean hackers laundered $100M in stolen Bitcoin by using hundreds of automated transactions to "peel" small amounts off the original (Mike Orcutt/MIT Technology Review)

    Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: How North Korean hackers laundered $100M in stolen Bitcoin by using hundreds of automated transactions to “peel” small amounts off the original  —  Hackers working for Kim Jong-un have become experts at covering their tracks on the Bitcoin blockchain. How North Korean hackers laundered 0M in stolen Bitcoin by

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    • A look at the growing TikTok trend of "sleep-streams", where users live-stream their sleep to earn digital coins and gain new followers (Taylor Lorenz/New York Times)

    Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: A look at the growing TikTok trend of “sleep-streams”, where users live-stream their sleep to earn digital coins and gain new followers  —  Some TikTok users are going viral, gaining followers and even making cash by live-streaming themselves overnight. A look at the growing TikTok trend of "sleep-streams", where

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    An 8085 Retrocomputer From The Heart

    The world of 8-bit retrocomputing splits easily into tribes classified by their choice of processor. There are 6809 enthusiasts, 6502 diehards, and Z80 lovers, each sharing a bond to their particular platform that often threads back through time to whatever was the first microcomputer they worked with. Here it’s the Z80 as found in the

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    • Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, has raised $20M in Series B funding at a $100M+ pre-money valuation (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

    Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, has raised $20M in Series B funding at a $100M+ pre-money valuation  —  Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, announced this week that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Hungry, a catering marketplace that

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    • Sources: Huawei is projecting that its annual smartphone shipments will fall around 20% this year (Juro Osawa/The Information)

    Juro Osawa / The Information: Sources: Huawei is projecting that its annual smartphone shipments will fall around 20% this year  —  Huawei is projecting that its annual smartphone shipments will fall around 20% this year, in what would be its first year-on-year decline, as a result of U.S. sanctions on its business. Sources: Huawei is

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