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Converge Bio’s ‘everything store’ for biotech LLMs brings in $5.5M seed

AI is finding its way into every corner of biotech and pharmaceutical research, but like other industries, it’s never quite as straightforward to implement as one would like. Converge Bio has built a tool for companies to make their biology-focused … Continue reading

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Alphabet’s VC arm backs little-known SAP rival Odoo, boosting valuation to $5.3 billion

Odoo, an enterprise software startup rivalling SAP, boosted its valuation to $5.3 billion in a secondary share round led by Alphabet’s VC fund and Sequoia.

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HPE’s El Capitan Named World’s Fastest Supercomputer

El Capitan, built by HPE, tops the 2024 TOP500 list as the world’s fastest supercomputer, driving breakthroughs in AI, nuclear research, and energy.

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Fintech giant Finastra confirms it’s investigating a data breach

An incident disclosure shared with Finastra’s banking and financial customers confirms a hacker stole files from a company system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

Tailing a robotaxi for hours and hours is weird. And revelatory. And jealousy-inducing. But a driverless world is coming for all of us. So shut the door and buckle up.

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Price Drop: Code Faster and More Accurately, Even in Collaboration, for Just $28

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows allows you to code with teams across platforms and languages, and offers advanced tools to ensure accuracy. Now at $27.97 through November 21.

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Portugal’s Tekever raises $74M for dual-use drone platform deployed to Ukraine

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) to develop its product and expand into new markets, specifically the U.S.. The news is part of a trend of smaller tech-driven startups moving into markets normally dominated by large … Continue reading

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UK crashes out of global top 50 supercomputer ranking

The U.K. no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50, according to new data from the Top500 project, which ranks the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems globally. The country’s current national supercomputer system, Archer2, is approaching end-of-life in … Continue reading

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Social media ban for under-16s ‘on the table’ in UK

The tech secretary Peter Kyle also said he wanted an “assertive” approach from the regulator, Ofcom.

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UK open to social media ban for kids as gov’t kicks off feasibility study

The U.K. government is not ruling out further beefing up existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style ban on social media for under 16s technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has said. Back in the summer the government warned it may … Continue reading

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