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Keep Labs’ smart storage redefines medication management

TechCrunch

Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes or dime bags. The company launched in 2019, won — and lost — an innovation award at CES 2020, and this week started […] The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use.

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

TechCrunch

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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reMarkable, maker of a focus-friendly e-paper tablet, says it closed funding at a $1B+ valuation after selling 1M devices

TechCrunch

Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard; but there remains an opportunity for startups that focus on specific niches to build viable businesses. Spark, which led a $15 million investment into the company in 2019 (when it had sold a mere 100,000 devices), remains a shareholder in the company, Wanberg added.

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‘If you compromise the bootloader, you pwn the whole phone’

The Parallax

The vulnerabilities, discovered by Ilja van Sprundel and Joseph Tartaro at security research company IOActive , and by Andrea Barisani at antivirus company F-Secure , affect a wide range of bootloaders, including Das U-Boot , Coreboot , Grub , Seabios , CFE , iPXE , and TianoCore , they disclosed at PacSec 2019 here in November.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

TechCrunch

But the competition, while fierce, hasn’t scared away firms like NeuReality , which occupy the AI chip inferencing market but aim to differentiate themselves by offering a suite of software and services to support their hardware. NeuReality will bring AI tech to anyone who wants to deploy easily and affordably.”

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

TechCrunch

MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014.

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South Korean proptech startup Zigbang acquires Samsung SDS’ smart home IoT business

TechCrunch

By combining Zigbang’s residential contents with Samsung [SDS]’ home IoT hardware, we will revolutionize the smart home market,” CEO of Zigbang Sung-woo Ahn said in a statement. The company also plans to enter the self-storage and home inspections and repairs services. Zigbang has been on an acquisition-expansion spree since 2018.

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