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Appetite wants to help you and your friends discover, plan and book a meal out

Appetite, an app for discovering and booking restaurants, is aiming to streamline the process of planning nights out with friends and family. After beta testing the app with 14,000 users, the startup is now releasing Appetite to everyone in the … Continue reading

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Daytona wants to be an enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces

A new company is setting out “fill the enterprise void” left by GitHub Codespaces,” with a platform that enables companies to bring all their development environment endeavors in-house. Cloud-based coding is all the rage, a trend that that has accelerated … Continue reading

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How to Disable the Creation of .DS_Store Files on Network, Removable Media Locations From a Mac

.DS_Store files can pollute the network and removable storage for non-Mac users. Learn what these files do and how to disable them.

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Daye now offers tampon-based STI screening — starting in the UK

UK femcare-turned-gynaecological-health startup, Daye, has expanded its tampon-based home screening service to add STI testing. The startup is billing this “non-invasive screening” service for sexually transmitted infections as a “world first”. The “STI Diagnostic Tampon” service uses Polymerase Chain Reaction … Continue reading

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Dreamfarm, a startup out of Italy’s Food Valley, is setting its sights on the perfect vegan mozzarella

Vegan cheese isn’t usually anything to write home about, in terms of taste and texture. Dreamfarm, a startup based in Parma, in the Food Valley of Italy, is hoping to change that. It’s cooked up a plant-based mozzarella using a … Continue reading

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In Mamaearth, Peak XV finds its fourth 10x return since Sequoia separation

In the oversubscribed IPO of Mamaearth, Peak XV Partners has found its fourth 10x or greater return within the six months since separating from the Sequoia family. The venture fund is sitting on an 10x return on its investment in … Continue reading

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Flexport gobbles up Convoy’s assets, Revel pulls the plug on mopeds and UAW sets its sights on Toyota and Tesla

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.  Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, … Continue reading

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Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence unicorns, has a new venture — and a great ambition. In late March, Lee launched a company called … Continue reading

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Elon Musk debuts ‘Grok’ AI bot to rival ChatGPT, others

After its beta phase, Grok will be available to premium members on X, formerly Twitter.

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Musk says his new AI chatbot has ‘a little humour’

The AI tool, designed to have a cheeky tone to its writing, is not yet widely available.

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