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On Friday, at 2:48 pm, Francesco Cancellato received an ominous notice on his mobile phone while at home near Milan. “This is a message from Whatsapp”,…
Whatsapp says it disrupts a hacking campaign that targets journalists with Paragon Spyware
WhatsApp said on Friday that it had disturbed a hacking campaign aimed at about 90 users, including journalists and civil society members. A WhatsApp spokesman told…
Austin-based Ironspring Ventures has raised $100 million to invest in the industrial revolution
When Ironspring Ventures launched in 2020 to back startups in industry sectors like construction and manufacturing, it was one of the few early-stage venture firms paying…
Human composting and timber markets: we talk ‘industrial’ VC with investor Dayna Grayson
While the venture world is abuzz with generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime entrepreneur who five years ago co-founded her own company, Build the capital, has…
Amazon looks to AI, autonomous vehicles and Asia as $1bn industrial innovation fund evolves
Amazon has spent nearly two years putting an undisclosed portion of its $1 billion industrial innovation fund to work with investments in nearly a dozen U.S.…
Manufacturing may well prove to be the next major focus for robotics investment. Here in the United States, the $2 trillion industry employs about eight million…
Atomic Industries shuts down $17 million in production to explore America’s industrial base
In 2014, investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel infamously drew the distinction between companies that deal in “people” versus those that deal in “bits.” In its crudest…
PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32 million for artificial intelligence in mechanical energy simulations
A lot of the buzz these days in AI is about genetic AI and how AI is being used to accelerate software and consumer products. Today,…