May 10, 2024

Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts | TechCrunch

Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle indication that investors’ appetite for tech-focused solutions to the woes of the American industrial base is not going down. But Layup was likely able to close a large funding round so quickly at least in

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Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as the most valuable company in the world, Apple is kind of the ultimate “not a startup,” but judging by the traffic on the site, y’all are such rabid fans that it seems rude not to

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Hardware

Windows 11 could get some big changes: Start menu ‘companions’ and Copilot in Settings

Windows 11 has some interesting new features incoming based on the latest preview version of the operating system. As well-known leaker on X (formerly Twitter) Albacore noticed, in the fresh preview build 26212 (deployed in the Canary channel), Microsoft has introduced what are called ‘companions’ for the Start menu. These are widget-style concoctions that are attached to the Start menu in a floating panel that can be docked to the left or right-hand side, piping

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AI

How I Learned SQL In 2 Weeks (From Scratch)

How I became proficient in SQL to help land my first data science job Egor Howell · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 8 hours ago — Photo by Windows on Unsplash So, you want to learn SQL? Well, in this article, I will run through how I learned SQL in just 2 weeks, which helped me land my first entry-level data science role.

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Hardware

The iPhone 16 Pro could have a 20% brighter display than your boring old iPhone 15 Pro

While the iPhone 15 Pro might have only been on sale for a few months, Apple and its supply chain partners are already likely gearing up for what comes next. For Apple, that’s thought to be the iPhone 16 Pro and the larger iPhone 16 Pro Max and we’ve been hearing l;eaks relating to the two phones for a few months now. The latest leak suggests that buyers can look forward to a big display

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Hardware

New iPhone 16 dummy unit leak shows off its refreshed camera design and more

With the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus having not been around all that long, you might be surprised to learn that plans are already afoot to replace them in the lineup. But you probably shouldn’t be, Apple gets the ball rolling well ahead of the expected September release date and that means that we tend to start seeing more and more leaks the closer we get to September. The latest leak comes via a

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Robotics

RoboBusiness 2024 call for speakers now open

Listen to this article [embedded content] WTWH Media, producer of The Robot Report and Robotics Summit & Expo, invites you to submit a talk to be considered for presentation at RoboBusiness 2024, which takes place October 16-17 in Santa Clara, California. Since its founding in 2004, RoboBusiness has evolved into the world’s premier robotics business development event. In addition to enabling tech and robotics innovation, RoboBusiness focuses on investments and business topics related to running

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Video Friday: Robot Bees

2 min read Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2024: 13–17 May 2024, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! Festo has

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