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Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M

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Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Diligent has been leading that specific charge for some time now. Diligent timed its last funding round perfectly, scoring $10 million in March of 2020, right before many U.S.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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After the events of 2020, however, no doubt many already lean businesses are hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Atrium (2017-2020). Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Essential (2017-2020).

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

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In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems. We enable them to successfully address these realities head-on.”

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Butter raises $7M to end ‘accidental’ customer churn due to payment failure

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It was there that he realized there was an astounding number of subscriptions that failed to renew or even go through to begin with due to payment-related issues. The accidental churn is often not just due to problems with renewals, where people get frustrated by failed attempts to charge their credit card, for example. to $5 million.

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Magdrive secures seed funding for new propulsion system which could take us to the stars

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A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive says its engine can deliver both high thrust and high efficiency in one system. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 Magdrive prototype render. Image: Magdrive .

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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But with the advent of GPT-3 in 2020, LLMs exploded onto the scene, captivating the world’s attention and forever altering the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), and in the process, becoming an essential part of our everyday computing lives. There are many areas of research and focus sprouting from the capabilities presented through LLMs.

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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

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A report by Verizon found that 85% of all data breaches occur due to social engineering and system intrusions caused by basic human errors. Case in point , in 2020, Russian cybercriminals tried to bribe a Tesla employee with $1 million to install ransomware in the companys systems.

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