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If you’re an electrical engineer, DigiKey, Octopart and Mouser are permanently etched into your browser history — all the components you might need, at your fingertips. Volition just raised $11 million to become the same indispensable supplier for mechanical and industrial engineering: think motors, gears, pneumatics, hydraulics, controllers, sensors, measuring and test equipment, and a […]

Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon One, the retailer’s palm-scanning payment technology, is now gaining new functionality with the addition of age verification services. The company announced today that customers using Amazon One devices will be able to buy adult beverages — like beers at a sports event — just by hovering their palm over the Amazon One device. The […]

Amazon’s palm-scanning payment tech will now be able to verify ages, too by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

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. The FDA just approved rub-on gene therapy that helps “butterfly” children The news: Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration approved sales of the first gene therapy that is directly applied to…

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. I recently published a short story about new policies recently announced by Google and Twitter that allow the companies to remove inactive accounts. Google said the decision…

“Digital transformation” and AI remain very buzzy terms in the world of enterprise software, and today a startup out of Romania that’s built a platform that taps into both concepts, and is seeing user traction in the financial sector, has raised a decent round of funding. FlowX.ai — which lets enterprises port legacy and newer […]

Romania’s FlowX.ai raises $35M for its AI-based approach to application integration by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

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This fintech segment saw a flurry of fundraises by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Cryptocurrency is still a relatively new technology, and many people are excited about its potential. However, crypto has experienced turbulent times in the past year after a meteoric rise. Major…

Women should no longer be thought of as a niche. In fact, they’re one of the most significant growth markets we’ve ever seen.

Unlocking the trillion-dollar female economy by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch