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3 views on CES 2022

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For fifty-four years, big and small hardware manufacturers that hoped to reach their target audiences rolled out new products at the Consumer Electronics Show. But just 40,000 people attended, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. Brian Heater: Hardware startups should reconsider their media strategies. Fill that vacuum.”

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Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models

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Bringing Modular’s total raised to $130 million, the proceeds will be put toward product expansion, hardware support and the expansion of Modular’s programming language, Mojo, CEO Chris Lattner says. ” Ambitious much? But none of what roughly-70-employee Modular is proposing is out of the realm of possibility.

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Weka Becomes A Unicorn With Big $140M Series E

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The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. billion round led by Coatue that values the company at $19 billion, per The Wall Street Journal. The startup is a provider of Nvidia ’s latest GPUs, which are highly sought after by AI developers.

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Tinder founder’s latest play is a ring for quantifying mental health

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In addition to the standard array of wearable sensors, the startup points to a custom-built EDA (electrodermal activity) detector as the product’s hardware differentiator. The company is offering a hardware-as-a-service model, straight out of the gate. There’s no upfront cost for the hardware, with plans starting at $20 a month.

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Perplexity Poised To Become Latest AI Startup To Hit Unicorn Status — Report

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The Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is being finalized and the new valuation. The company offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software. Perplexity AI is reportedly nearing completion of a funding round that will give the AI search startup a unicorn valuation of around $1 billion.

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Tandem sketches out a remote-friendly hybrid work future

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In short, the service works with video-ready hardware inside of office spaces like conference rooms and general-use areas, allowing remote staff to connect to different parts of the office, listen in or actively participate. My first journalism job was for a company on a different continent.

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Is Your Business Prepared to Recover from a Cyber Event?

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When a disaster happens — such as a data center fire or server hardware dying —you get alerted right away. Benefits include down-to-the-second RPOs via continuous data protection and journal-based recovery. However, the two scenarios have some vital differences. Zerto also offers the industry’s fastest recovery time objectives.