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Despite heat pumps’ growing appeal, not all consumers are sold on the idea. This startup hopes to change people’s minds.

Quilt raises $9M seed round to become the Nest of heat pumps by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch

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One of the largest pharmacy service providers in the United States has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of almost six million patients. PharMerica operates over 2,500 facilities across the U.S. and offers more than 3,100 pharmacy and healthcare programs. In a data breach notification filed with Maine’s attorney general, PharMerica said it learned […]

US pharmacy giant says hackers accessed personal data of almost 6 million patients by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

I’m not sure I’d call this the golden age of humanoid robots, but they sure have been coming out of the woodwork since Tesla announced its intentions to build one back in the summer of 2021. It’s difficult to compare the progress of various systems at the moment (they’re all fairly early stage), but Sanctuary […]

Sanctuary AI’s new humanoid robot stands 5’7″ and lifts 55 lb by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Training machine learning models for computer vision use cases takes massive amounts of images. Often, those images are mislabeled, broken or duplicated, leading to sub-par model performance. But with millions of images in many datasets, it’s virtually impossible to catch these issues. Visual Layer, a Tel Aviv-based startup that wants to enable data scientists and […]

Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual data sets they need to build AI models, raises $7M by Frederic Lardinois 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. Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda As thousands of companies trumpet their plans to cut carbon pollution, a small group of sustainability consultants has emerged as the go-to arbiter of…

ANYbotics this week announced a $50 million Series B. The round, led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital, comes as the firm is pushing to deploy its ruggedized four-legged robot, ANYmal X. That follows a $22 million round raised in December 2020. The startup says it’s already clocked $150 million in preorders/reservations from gas/oil and […]

ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

NewLimit, a 1.5-year-old, San Francisco-based, 17-person company that aims to increase the number of healthy years each person lives by epigenetically reprogramming cells, is today announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series A funding from Dimension, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, and other investors to further its mission to extend humans’ health and lives. […]

NewLimit, cofounded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch