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Hardware gets its turn in the spotlight at Disrupt 2023

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Let’s start with an obvious truth: Hardware is hard. The good news is such difficulties give us a lot to talk about — and as it happens, for the first time, hardware is getting its own stage at Disrupt 2023. We’re talking hardware investing, design and manufacturing. Trust me, you’re going to want to tune in for this one.

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

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Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. Karl Marx famously argued in “Das Kapital” that to achieve freedom from the slavery of capitalism, the worker must own the means of production.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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They ensure that decisions are aligned with both short-term goals and long-term sustainability Strategist: The enterprise architect aligns technology initiatives with the businesss vision, ensuring that technology choices drive value and competitive advantage. This requires long-term thinking and investment.

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Sustainability at Disrupt

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Disrupt will have six industry tracks, each with its own stage, including AI , fintech , hardware , SaaS , security and sustainability. Yup, sustainability, a category that will combine transportation , climate tech , smart cities and renewables. What the heck is sustainable tech, anyway? Prices go up May 12.

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Topi raises $45M to power hardware subscriptions for B2B merchants

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A new company is looking to do for B2B hardware sales what a growing number of companies have been doing in the consumer sphere, by making it easier for businesses to pay for equipment in instalments through rentals and subscriptions. Hardware-as-a-service. million in funding to do something similar for B2B transactions.

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EnCharge AI emerges from stealth with $21.7M to develop AI accelerator hardware

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EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 Speaking to TechCrunch via email, co-founder and CEO Naveen Verma said that the proceeds will be put toward hardware and software development as well as supporting new customer engagements.

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Without sustainable practices, orbital debris will hinder space’s gold rush

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To continue exploring space sustainably, we must act now. Today’s sustainability crisis in space is the result of 60 years of exploration and utilization that have largely ignored the environmental consequences of space activities and treated satellites and other space assets as single-use objects. Luca Rossettini. Contributor.