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Pitching accuracy rates of over 99% for multiple cancer screens, Thrive launches with $110 million
May 30, 2:37PM
For more than 25 years the founders of Thrive Earlier Detection have been researching ways to improve the accuracy of liquid biopsy tests. The fruits of that labor from Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Dr. Kenneth Kinzler and Dr. Nickolas Papadopoulos — all professors and researchers at Johns Hopkins University — is CancerSEEK, a liquid biopsy test […]
Machine learning startup Weights & Biases raises $15M
May 30, 2:31PM
Weights & Biases, a startup building development tools for machine learning, has raised $15 million in its second round of funding. The company was started by CrowdFlower founders Lukas Biewald and Chris van Pelt, along with former Google engineer Shawn Lewis. (Under its new name Figure Eight, CrowdFlower was acquired by Appen for up to […]
Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt
May 30, 2:12PM
A new startup aims to help you get your student loans under control. Today, an app called Pillar, backed by $5.5 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, is launching a simpler way for consumers to better understand their student loan debt — and even pay it off early. To do so, the app […]
Two years after Essential's launch, still no Home hub or second phone
May 30, 2:11PM
This morning's Moto Z4 news was good cause to go back and reassess the state of the modular phone. Three years after the line launched, the concept hasn't exactly ignited the market — in fact there are really just a handful of scattered competitors to show for it. Essential is among the most prominent with […]
Northwestern Mutual has carved out $150 million for another fintech and insurance investment fund
May 30, 2:00PM
Northwestern Mutual is setting aside $150 million for a second venture fund. "We're committed to transforming the client experience to drive change within the financial services industry," said Souheil Badran, executive vice president and chief innovation officer, in a statement. "This additional capital will allow us to build on the success of Northwestern Mutual Future […]
Security lapse exposed private Theta photos
May 30, 2:00PM
Millions of photos taken by Theta camera owners — some private and unlisted — were left exposed after security researchers found an open database without a password. Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found the leaky database and reported the exposure to Ricoh, which secured the database within a day. The printing tech giant has sold […]
Insight Partners bags threat intel company Recorded Future for $780M
May 30, 1:54PM
If you haven’t noticed, security companies are a pretty hot commodity these days. Just yesterday, Palo Alto Networks bought two security startups. Earlier this week, FireEye bought Verodin for $250 million, and today, private equity firm Insight Partners announced it was buying threat intelligence vendor Recorded Future for $780 million. What Insight is buying is […]
Enterprise cybersecurity startup BlueVoyant raises $82.5M at a $430M+ valuation
May 30, 1:52PM
The pace of malicious hacks and security breaches is showing no signs of slowing down, and spend among enterprises to guard against that is set to reach $124 billion this year. That’s also having a knock-on effect on the most innovative cybersecurity startups, which continue to raise big money to grow and meet that demand. In […]
Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases
May 30, 1:30PM
For the past nineteen years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida, has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental illness in older patients. The company, whose tools have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for predicting Alzheimer’s, claims that it can […]
LEGO celebrates Apollo 11 with a lovely, bricky Lunar Lander
May 30, 1:01PM
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing is approaching, and there will be no shortage of fanfare — so why shouldn't LEGO get in on the fun? This Lunar Lander set looks like a great way to celebrate the missions of the space program's past, while the space station and launch sets celebrate its present and future.
Healthcare data integration startup Abacus Insights lands $12.7M Series A
May 30, 1:00PM
Abacus Insights, an early stage startup that wants to help coordinate healthcare information across systems, announced a $12.7 million Series A investment today led by CRV. Existing investors 406 Ventures and Echo Health Ventures also participated in the round. The company is trying to make it easier for health insurance companies to share data with […]
The latest modular Moto Z has a beefy battery and improved low-light camera
May 30, 1:00PM
When it arrived in 2016, the Moto Z felt revolutionary — or, at the very least, novel. Motorola soon announced it was making the Moto Z its flagship device. In the intervening three years, the line has yet to set the world on fire. It's seemingly been a decent seller for the company, but with […]
UK Internet attitudes study finds public support for social media regulation
May 30, 11:50AM
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a new joint report and stat-fest on Internet attitudes and usage with the national data protection watchdog, the ICO — a quantitative study to be published annually which they’re calling the Online Nation report. The new structure hints at the direction of travel for online regulation in the UK, […]
MMC Ventures launches fresh £52M seed fund aimed at London startups
May 30, 11:43AM
Synthesia is a London-based startup which recently achieved notoriety after powering the technology behind the recent global campaign showing Malaria survivors speaking through David Beckham to help raise awareness around the Malaria Must Die initiative. That is, at least now, well known. What was less well known until today was that to achieve this, Synthesia […]
Medivis gets FDA approval for its augmented reality surgical planning toolkit
May 30, 11:05AM
Augmented reality is coming to the operating room theater sooner than anyone may have predicted. Medivis, which launched its product suite earlier this year, has now received approvals from the Food and Drug Administration and will begin rolling out its service in hospitals around the country. The SurgicalAR platform is a visualization tool that guides […]
Rumpus, the collaborative toolkit from Oblong Industries, is now available on Webex
May 30, 10:30AM
In a previous life, John Underkoffler spent his days in Los Angeles dreaming up all of the possible ways men and machines would interact as a science adviser on films like Minority Report. Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries, which has labored to create a full stack […]
London fintech Yapily raises $5.4M to offer a single API to connect to banks
May 30, 10:00AM
Yapily, a London fintech startup that offers an Open Banking-based API platform to enable financial services providers and other types of enterprises, such as merchants, to connect to banks, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding. Leading the round is HV Holtzbrinck Ventures and LocalGlobe. Investors also include Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise Chairman and co-founder), Ott […]
Apple, Google, Microsoft, WhatsApp sign open letter condemning GCHQ proposal to listen in on encrypted chats
May 30, 9:44AM
An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-down to a surveillance proposal made last year by the UK’s intelligence agency, warning it would undermine trust and security and threaten fundamental rights. “The GCHQ’s ghost protocol creates […]
Ekasbo's Matebot may be the cutest cat robot yet created
May 30, 8:50AM
If Shrek saw Matebot, no amount of sad-eyes could win him back to Puss in Boots’ side. Created by Shenzhen-based robotics company Ekasbo, Matebot looks like a black and white cartoon cat and responds to your touch by wiggling its ears, changing the expression in its big LED eyes and tilting its head. Built with […]
Ulo is an adorable security camera that interacts with you while keeping watch over your home
May 30, 8:20AM
Tired of home security cameras that add nothing to your home (besides, well, surveillance)? The Ulo, created by Luxembourg-based Mu Design, adds a touch of whimsy. The owl-shaped surveillance camera has two big interactive LCD eyes that follow your movements, and its two lenses—a HD camera and motion sensor camera—discreetly hidden in its beak, made […]
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