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Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Groom, with participation from Together…

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Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it’s a bet on a fuel source that’s already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others’) turbines have gone in…

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Healthcare consumers routinely confront an experience that would seem unacceptable in almost any other industry: they commit to a service without knowing what it will cost, shuttle information among disconnected organizations and often shoulder the burden of coordinating their own care. Nathan Frank, Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Aetna, has made eliminating that friction

TOPSHOT – A raccoon (Procyon lotor) iAFP via Getty ImagesOne of the big things that artificial intelligence may be able to help us with, in general, is better analysis of massively complex systems that hide all kinds of fraud, smuggling, poaching and other malfeasance. Specifically, the technologies that we are discovering now will have big…

Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way to small Chinese EVs. Even Smart, the the iconic ultracompact car brand, has moved manufacturing to China. Spanish startup Liux thinks it can compete in a crowded market with a…

SpaceX launches NASA’s $4.3 billion Roman space telescope

At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and after-parties, the chatter kept coming back to how Europe can gain more…