Technology

Augmedics snaps up $82.5M to advance spinal surgery using AR and AI

June 27, 2023

Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now approaching 8 million. But their frequency belies the complexity and sometimes less-than-perfect outcomes of these procedures. That’s created a vacuum that technology is mobilizing to fill: today, a startup called Augmedics that’s built an augmented reality-based navigation […]

Augmedics snaps up $82.5M to advance spinal surgery using AR and AI by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Data security startup Cyera lands a $100M investment

June 27, 2023

A trend accelerated by the mass move to digital during the pandemic, enterprises are having to handle an increasing amount of proprietary data. According to one survey, the average company deals with 63% growth in data volume per month, with 12% of respondents reporting a whopping 100% growth. As the amount of data grows, it […]

Data security startup Cyera lands a $100M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: cutting beer’s carbon emissions, and reclaiming lost wages

June 27, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions What’s happening? Next year, New Belgium Brewing will swap out one of the four natural-gas-powered boilers at its main brewing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado,…

Are These 3 Biotech Stocks Good Buys?

June 27, 2023
Given that the biotech sector is rapidly expanding with robust demand, technology advancements, and government initiatives, fundamentally strong biotech stocks Incyte (INCY), Corcept Therapeutics (CORT), and Entrada Therapeutics (TRDA) look…

Redpanda nabs $100M Series C as streaming service experiences significant growth

June 27, 2023

Redpanda helps companies capture data in real time in a modern context, providing a new way to stream data while maintaining backwards compatibility with Kafka, the popular open source streaming project. Today, the company announced a $100 million Series C, just 16 months after announcing a $50 million Series B. This kind of trajectory was […]

Redpanda nabs $100M Series C as streaming service experiences significant growth by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Next-gen content farms are using AI-generated text to spin up junk websites

June 27, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. We’ve heard a lot about AI risks in the era of large language models like ChatGPT (including from me!)—risks such as prolific mis- and disinformation…

How electrifying steam could cut beer’s carbon emissions

June 27, 2023
Next year, New Belgium Brewing will swap out one of the four natural-gas-powered boilers at its main brewing facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, for an electrified version designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The modular, 650-kilowatt pilot boiler system was developed by AtmosZero, a startup also based in Fort Collins and coming out of stealth today.…