Satellite imagery and machine learning offer a new, far more detailed look at the maritime industry, specifically the number and activities of fishing and transport ships at sea.
Satellite imagery offers a new perspective on this conundrum: you can’t hide from an eye in the sky.
The dark fishing industry is huge — perhaps as big again as the publicly documented one.
“Fish are an important dynamic resource that move around, so openly tracking fishing vessels is fundamental for monitoring fish stocks.
The global community only hears second-hand, and one of the study’s findings was that the Asian fishing industry is systematically under-represented.
It’s all a distant memory for tech companies looking to assert themselves as leading innovators for the coming year.
In spite of the aforementioned ongoing health issues, I’m actually kind of looking forward to this CES.
Speaking of robotics (as I often am), CES has been dipping its toes in those waters for a few years now.
Over the past several years, LG has made the strategic decision to announce its biggest products ahead of CES.
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But because of the country’s naturally dry and biodiverse climate, it’s particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events that have been exacerbated by climate change.
Australia has experienced its fair share of a climate catastrophes, which has only fueled its climate tech startups into action.
The hype for climate tech in Australia is real, as long as it can be sustained.
Local VCs are most excited about the sector this year, with climate and cleantech dominating in funding and deal count in Q3 2023.
In 2022, climate tech in Australia raised $553 million in capital, compared to $338 million in 2021, according to a report from Climate Salad, a community of Australian climate tech stakeholders.
This year was tough for many space companies, and we aren’t trying to paper that over with our optimism.
Advanced satellite operations demonstrationsIn the broadest possible terms, a huge portion of space startups are interested in increasing the number of things a satellite can do in space.
Another hot area of satellite operations involves in-space manufacturing and satellite reentry.
Next year, we expect to see more demonstrations from startups looking to execute state-of-the-art satellite operations.
2024 should be chock full of exciting tests and new developments from other companies looking to take their slice of the launch market.
Why tokenization of assets can be a key driver of growth in cryptoStartups that find product-market fit can do well in any industry, but that’s not enough if you’re a web3 company.
No, you have to go beyond and find real use cases for the emerging technology.
There’s a lot more activity during bull markets as crypto tourists enter the industry in hopes of making it big.
Many protocols and companies have taken the time to be regulated and work on bridging the real world and the world of crypto, Warden said.
“I don’t love that expression ‘real world,’ because I think crypto is part of the real world, but I think we’re seeing more and more engagement there.”Warden thinks one of the biggest avenues for real world use cases is tokenization of assets and areas that aren’t even tradable yet.
Crypto valuations ‘came back to earth’ in 2023, but VCs expect them to rise again in 2024The past couple of years have proved to be a turbulent time for the crypto industry.
But a recent spike of interest in crypto, driven by rising Bitcoin and Ethereum prices, is rebuilding momentum, and many think that next year could be promising for crypto startups’ valuations.
Fundraising was difficult for both startups and venture capitalists in 2023, according to Lydia Chiu, VP of business development at Ava Labs.
In 2022, the crypto venture capital deck “saw a complete reshuffling,” with “many tourist VCs in retreat and their weaker portfolio investments bleeding out,” he added.
“Anyone should’ve expected venture funding to dry up in 2023, and it did,” said Will Nuelle, general partner at Galaxy Ventures.
Here in the States, the $2 trillion industry employs around eight million people — that’s nearly one New York City.
Even in financial boom times, however, these jobs can be difficult to keep filled, owing to physical demands and other potential dangers.
As evidenced from videos released by PaintJet, those sorts of older technologies remain intact here — albeit with an automated twist.
CEO Nick Hegeman tells TechCrunch, that in spit of looking like a fairly standard piece of heavy machine, “We have created 100% of the robotic system.
Of course, PaintJet is far from the only company vying to introduce robots to the world of industrial painting.
In Orbit Aerospace wants to be the third party logistics provider for science and industryTwo year old space startup In Orbit Aerospace wants to be the third party logistics provider for Earth to space commerce – and to get there, the company just closed a new agreement to validate key technical capabilities on the International Space Station.
The El Segundo, California-based company is developing orbital platforms and re-entry vehicles to enable mass manufacturing and research in space.
“Automation and robotics is the backbone of industrial manufacturing on Earth,” CEO Ryan Elliott said in a statement.
On a slightly longer scale, In Orbit is aiming to launch a second mission in 2026 and then partner with a spacecraft provider to host a manufacturing lab on orbit.
In Orbit is expecting that its core customers will be manufacturers, who will want to outsource on orbit hosting.
When Apex Space emerged from stealth last October, the company had a provocative goal: remove the “new bottleneck” hitting the space industry by manufacturing satellite buses at scale.
To get there, Apex announced today that it has opened a new headquarters and production facility in California that will eventually scale up to manufacture 50 satellite platforms annually.
Apex wants to disrupt one of the more entrenched parts of the space industry.
In general, satellite buses have been built to order at a very high cost and with very long lead times.
Apex is planning on flying its first Aries on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 ride-share mission scheduled for the first quarter of next year.
The restriction of AI technologies to just China seems ironic as the country is currently heavily investing in advanced technologies like big data, internet of things, and artificial intelligence. Perhaps…
