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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

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Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service

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Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo told TechCrunch that this was more by necessity than design, noting that when the company first started developing its drone tech, it quickly realized that off-the-shelf components weren’t reliable or didn’t integrate well. This latest round has vaulted the company’s valuation to $2.75

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Incident.io looks to beef up its Slack-based incident response platform with $28.7M in fresh cash

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According to a 2016 survey by Everbridge, nearly a half of companies said that their incident response processes relies on manually calling and reaching out to people. It’s Incident.io co-founder and CEO Stephen Whitworth’s assertion that there’s fragmentation in the market for software incident management solutions.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

SAN FRANCISCO—The fastest, most cost-effective way to secure direct-record electronic voting machines in the United States, according to cybersecurity experts, is to stop using them. Switch to paper ballots and apply risk-limiting audits to ensure that vote tallies are conducted properly. You don’t have anything to go back to.”. Adida said.

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Singapore’s Neuron is taking the slow and steady approach to micromobility

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” Since its founding in 2016, Neuron has expanded internationally to 26 cities, with sizable market dominance in Australia , where the operator can be found on the streets of every capital city in the country. Singapore’s Neuron Mobility has raised a $43.5 million Series B round, bringing its total capital investment to $77.7

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Interpreting predictive models with Skater: Unboxing model opacity

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There is also a trade off in balancing a model’s interpretability and its performance. A deep dive into model interpretation as a theoretical concept and a high-level overview of Skater. There is often a need to verify the reasoning of such ML systems to hold algorithms accountable for the decisions predicted.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Following the 2016 election, the U.S. Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. It’s this horrible Catch-22.”.