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Five Flute annotates hardware product development into the current millennium

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If you’re working in hardware development, there’s not a lot of options for collaborative work — at least not until Five Flute came along. “ For engineering technicians, assemblers and manufacturing engineers, Five Flute allows them to quickly connect issues with prototypes and early production units they impact.

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Pliops lands $100M for chips that accelerate analytics in data centers

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And in the realm of startups, Blueshift Memory and Speedata are creating hardware that they say can perform analytics tasks significantly faster than standard processors. A core component of Pliops’ processor is its hardware-accelerated key-value storage engine. Image Credits: Pliops.

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Mozilla acquires Active Replica to build on its metaverse vision

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Ervin and Denis have assumed new jobs at Mozilla within the past several weeks, now working as senior engineering manager and product lead, respectively. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive) while remaining open to those without specialized VR hardware on desktops and smartphones.

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Fly.io wants to change the way companies deploy apps at the edge

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It doesn’t involve building its own data centers, at least not yet, but it does require installing hardware in different co-location facilities around the world. “So So we deploy our own hardware. In fact, he sees this as an operational problem, rather than a financial one, getting enough money to finance the hardware. “We

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Fintech Roundup: Better.com workers leaving in ‘droves’ in wake of CEO Vishal Garg’s return

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For example, engineering managers were said to have had an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Garg and only in-person workers were allowed to attend. Small businesses might soon be able to accept payments using their iPhones without the need for extra hardware, according to this piece , which cites Bloomberg. Image Credits: MagicCube.

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M pre-seed deck

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What if hardware product managers had tools as good as those available for software PMs? “We’ve shipped hardware and software products across industries and we deeply understand the problem space.” ” — overview of how hardware products are made. The company raised a $1.2 ” — team slide.

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GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

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The moment you go underground, now you become season-agnostic,” said Jamil Madanat, engineering manager at GreenForges. The company has had to create its own hardware solutions to fit and be able to extract the system in such a small space. This is where the holy grail of energy savings is going to take place.”.

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