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March 2024
AgZen’s RealCoverage wants to keep pesticides only where they are needed
A 2021 study found that if farmers didn’t use pesticides, they would lose 78% of fruit production, 54% of vegetable production, and 32% of cereal production. At the same time, the way pesticides are delivered is not ideal: The only way to guarantee enough pesticide distribution is to spray too much. That isn’t great for […]
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MyHeritage launches OldNews.com, a website with access to millions of historical newspaper pages
MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. The website includes articles from major international newspapers to small-town journals and gazettes. Its search engine lets you quickly find information on a person, topic or event. OldNews is a subscription-based […]
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Fohm rebrands to Saintly, for a heavenly clean bottom
When it comes to doing business — not startups, that other kind of business, that you have a whole separate room for in your house — we need to talk about wipes. Wet wipes are great for your tush, but awful for the environment. It turns out not everyone is fond of dry wiping, but […]
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AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence
Groq, a startup developing chips to run GenAI models faster than conventional hardware, has an eye toward the enterprise — and public sector. Today, Groq announced that it’s forming a new division — Groq Systems — focused on greatly expanding its customer and developer ecosystem. Within Groq Systems’ purview is serving organizations, including government agencies, […]
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MWC: Swayy app lets you share your future location with close friends, or groups you curate
Given that this week Instagram revealed that it was developing a “Friend Map” feature, it was interesting and timely to run into a startup during Mobile World Congress this week that plans to go beyond even that. Swayy is an iPhone app startup that allows you to share not your current location, but your next […]
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Apple reverses decision about blocking web apps on iPhones in the EU
Apple has reversed its decision about blocking web apps, also known as Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), on iPhones in the EU. The company updated its developer page saying that after receiving many requests to support PWAs, it will reinstate the functionality in the upcoming public release of iOS 17.4 PWAs can act like native apps […]
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