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Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has turned into Biofire, a firearms…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinAerial view of office buildings in the South Central Business district of Jakarta in Indonesia … [+] capital city. getty The Southeast Asian tech sector overall raised US$4.3 billion in 2023 (as of December 5, 2023), down 65% from US$12.4 billion raised in the same period the year before.…

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20VC founder Harry Stebbings unveiled his third, and final, offshoot fund called 20PRODUCT that kicks off with $5 million in capital commitments. Similar to his earlier funds, 20SALES and 20GROWTH, 20Product brings together a group of experts that will invest in early-stage founders looking to start, grow and scale their companies. Essentially, it’s like having…

When I was a student in the UK, I remember that renting appliances like washing machines and televisions was the norm for some people, especially students living in short-term accommodation. Israeli startup Xyte (pronounced “excite”) has just raised $30 million, as it sees a return to this sort of hardware-as-a-service model to be the way…

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2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter (now X) and Reddit, decided to change their terms to shut out third-party experiences on these platforms. In the process, they also put a price on their data — something they believe is…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Cars to be exported sit at a terminal in the port of Yantai, Shandong province, China January 10, 2024. China Daily via REUTERS/File Photo (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering restricting imports of Chinese “smart cars” and related components amid growing U.S. concerns about data security, Bloomberg News reported on…

Meta is challenging a fee levied by the European Union on larger online platforms under its rebooted ecommerce rules. While a number of tech giants have taken issue with their designations under the law, this is the first suit that’s focused on the supervisory fee. The news of Meta’s legal challenge was first reported yesterday…

Technical assessment company CodeSignal, which counts Index Ventures and Menlo Ventures as backers, is launching a learning platform called CodeSignal Learn. The new platform, aimed at audiences wanting to learn technical subjects, also has an AI-powred bot called Cosmo, which helps users with learning. The company said that there are hundreds of courses available at…