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Amazon partners with recycling robot company to monitor packaging waste

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In 2021, the company says it used 214 million or so pounds of single-use plastic in its packaging. Nonprofit ocean conservation firm Oceana, on the other hand, put that figure at approximately ~700 million pounds. Take for example, its ongoing efforts to reduce package weights and replace plastics with paper products. The first is a robot that is primarily deployed in recycling facilities to sort through different materials. We’ve also received a pretty significant grant from the Michigan Department of Environment for further deployments of our technology.

“Discover New Workout Companions with Liveliness: The Ultimate Sports Community App”

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Finding people who share your active passion — to go hiking, biking, running, whatever — is a pretty enduring problem. Step forward Liveliness, a Spanish startup building a community app around shared sporting passions. There’s a chat function and the ability for users to set up events other users can sign up to join. In the last three months people really started to use the app, making plans, creating events.”Users range in age from young to middle aged. “We just tried to make the app as simple as possible so people understand and know how to use it,” he added.

The ultimate objective of a startup is to terminate its existence

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In startup-land, the lifecycle of birth, growth and the inevitable leap of faith happens at a breakneck pace. Still, we occasionally fall into the trap of grieving the demise of these companies. The whole point of a startup is to build something enduring. Yes, but: Dive a bit deeper, and you’ll realize that the very model of startups is dependent on drama — whether that’s dramatic ascent, or a rapid crash into the nearest mountain side. And in that dynamic we can understand why we shouldn’t mourn failure.

ServiceNow to Enhance Task Mining Capabilities with Newest Acquisition

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ServiceNow announced this morning that it was acquiring Czech Republic task mining company UltimateSuite, giving the company a new way to capture and understand how work flows through a business. Task mining is a part of process mining, a growing worldwide market that helps companies understand how work flows through an organization, looking for bottlenecks in order to increase efficiency. UltimateSuite is substantially smaller, having raised less than $1 million, but it gives ServiceNow another tool in its task mining arsenal, says Eduardo Chiocconi, VP and GM for process mining at ServiceNow. Prior to acquisition of UltimateSuite, the company had the ability to drill down into a workflow, but lacked the ability to get down to the user task level. And that’s exactly what UltimateSuite task mining is coming in to help us with,” Chiocconi told TechCrunch.