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Walmart signals its commitment to autonomous delivery with a new investment in the self-driving company Cruise. The two already have a cozy relationship after recently working together on a delivery pilot in Scottsdale, Arizona. Walmart was so impressed with Cruise’s “differentiated business, unique technology and unmatched driverless testing” that it decided to participate in the … Read more
April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ET April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ETA demonstrator outside the Brooklyn Center police department on Thursday night.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — For a fifth night after a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a 20-year-old man, hundreds of people rattled … Read more
Chris Voorhees, President of First Mode, and engineers Brian Geddes and Sophia Kim check the newly completed goniometer before shipping it to Western Washington University. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) The 3 foot wide device, built in First Mode’s Seattle workshop, looks like a science fiction movie with spinning gears and a flashing beam of … Read more
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has proposed bill that would restrict the types of information that technology companies could buy and sell overseas and the countries in which it could be legally sold. The legislation is resourceful and not very specific. However, this indicates growing federal concerns about international data trading. “Shady data brokers shouldn’t get … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS – The final case of the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been slated for Monday after telling the court that he would not testify in his own defense “I will be invoking my fifth amendment privilege today,” said Chauvin on Thursday. Chauvin, who actively took notes throughout the process … Read more
FitXR, formerly BoxVR, has developed a virtual reality experience for home training over the past three years. The pandemic has helped people avoid having to go to the gym, but there is still a feeling that exercising at home is a poor substitute for the sweat and hustle and bustle of a health club. For … Read more
New financing: 2Morrow, a Seattle-area startup developing digital coaching software to help people achieve health goals, has raised $ 1.5 million. Total funding so far is $ 2.9 million. Company background: Founded in 2011, 2Morrow works with employers, states, health plans, retailers, providers and public health organizations that use the smartphone-based apps to help patients … Read more
ROME – The European Union stumbled upon a Covid-19 vaccine rollout in late March that was fraught with bottlenecks and logistical issues when Mario Draghi took matters into his own hands. The new Italian Prime Minister confiscated a shipment of vaccines for Australia – an opportunity to show that a new, aggressive and powerful force … Read more
There is no shortage of data-driven sales management tools on the market. Of course, Atrium, a five-year-old San Francisco-based company that was co-founded by serial entrepreneur Pete Kazanjy, says it can do a far better job of empowering sales managers to improve their team’s performance. How? By giving them simple, easy-to-digest, real-time insights into who … Read more
