The fact is that they are rich ideologues announcing their intent to pay any politician who will advance their agenda, whatever that politician’s other views.
That tech is more important than people is fundamental to their approach.
For instance, supporting politicians who oppose basic civil rights just because they have a more hands-off tech regulation proposal.
In the first place, the idea that this one issue is non-partisan is risible.
They can’t expect us to believe that their understanding of lobbying and politics is this naive.
For anyone experimenting with photography and looking to get out of the smartphone shooting mindset, film and instant photography offer an exciting, tactile starting place.
Okay, we already talked about another of Fujifilm’s instant cameras but this one is in a class of its own.
Like instant photos, film photography is making a comeback — and for good reason.
You could shop online, but browsing in person if you’ve got an old-school store nearby parallels the tactile charm of film photography.
Either way, you’ll help keep film photography shops in business and wind up with a thoughtful, one of a kind gift.
A couple years ago, when the pandemic was still in full swing, Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser started making some investments in climate tech startups.
Things must have gone well, because now they’re jumping in: The firm today said it has closed a $65 million inaugural fund, using it to back founders who are starting climate tech software companies.
Felser founded Spinner in 1997 (sold to AOL) and Crackle in 2004 (sold to Sony).
He also started the #Climate nonprofit in 2014 and a public-private COVID task force during the pandemic.
Those experiences, coupled with a growing concern for the state of the Earth’s climate, led the two to form Climactic.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper successfully validated key technology that will increase throughput and reduce latency for customers using its satellite internet service, the company said Thursday.
That technology is called “optical inter-satellite links” (OISL), a type of optical communication that uses infrared lasers to send data between spacecraft on orbit.
OISL has been around for a while to enable inter-satellite communications, but earlier generations were limited to linking just two satellites at a time.
Kuiper’s satellites will be able to connect with many other spacecraft simultaneously, which will form a mesh network in space.
“With optical inter-satellite links across our satellite constellation, Project Kuiper will effectively operate as a mesh network in space,” Kuiper VP of technology Rajeev Badyal said in a statement.
Playground Global, the storied early-stage venture capital firm, brought in $410 million in capital commitments for its Fund III to invest in early-stage deep tech and science companies.
With Fund III, similar to its $500 million Fund II raised in 2017, capital deployments in Fund III will focus on seed and Series A companies with initial investments ranging from $1 million to $20 million.
For Fund III, we broadened our LP base to include endowments, foundations, and single and multifamily offices.
When we founded Playground, our team was purpose-built to help develop both consumer technologies and deep tech companies.
We’ve been investing in deep tech companies since we founded Playground, with PsiQuantum being one of our very first investments.
True Anomaly has closed $100 million in new funding, a strong signal that the appetite for startups operating at the intersection of space and defense is far from abating.
The new round was led by Riot Ventures, with participation from Eclipse, ACME Capital, Menlo Ventures, Narya, 645 Ventures, Rocketship.vc, Champion Hill Ventures and FiveNine Ventures.
True Anomaly is looking to fill a critical gap in space situational awareness and defensive operations through software and hardware, including the line of autonomous spacecraft capable of rendezvous and proximity operations.
In previous interviews with TechCrunch, True Anomaly CEO Even Rogers called out what he sees as a critical “information asymmetry” between the U.S. and its adversaries in space.
Jackal, Mosaic and the company’s other work in space domain awareness are meant to close that gap.
The in-car tech used by the likes of Ford and GM to make sure drivers pay attention to the road has come a long way.
NHTSA says it evaluated 331 driver monitoring systems and found none that are commercially available that can properly handle identifying alcohol impairment.
Driver monitoring isn’t the only option NHTSA has at its disposal, though.
Accuracy is key, and according to NHTSA’s findings, blood alcohol detection tech is a more viable near-term answer.
But this tech is considered “active,” meaning the driver has to proactively engage with the tech — which flies in the face of the law’s passive requirement.
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