Published on: 2025-06-04 01:16:11
In Brief Elon Musk’s brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The Series E fundraise included investors such as ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital, among others. Neuralink last raised a $280 million Series D funding round in 2023, with an additional $43 million tranche added months later. Since then, Neuralink’s brain chip technology has made some significant leaps. The company s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 05:27:54
Father of two here. I started coding in BASIC when I was 8 and fell in love with computers. It evolved into a passion for building products, and it has been my life's career. My son is showing interest in programming, mostly because, like other kids, he wants to make games. That's what got me started, too :) We've been working with Scratch and GameMaker, and I’ve been focusing on fundamentals like logic, structure, and problem-solving. It's really about getting him experience breaking problems
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90 Pages Posted: 27 May 2025 Date Written: May 01, 2025 Abstract We examine how selection bias in CEO promotion amplifies risk-taking, using prenatal exposure to pollution as an exogenous shock to individual risk preferences. CEOs born in future Superfund sites are more likely to be promoted internally, suggesting firms reward observed success without recognizing underlying risk tolerance. These "Superfund CEOs" excel in internal roles but pursue riskier external policies once promoted-leadin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 09:07:26
Zeal Capital Partners announced on Wednesday the close of its second fund, raising $82 million. Limited partners in the fund include Citi Impact Fund, M&T Bank, Wells Fargo, and Spelman College. It hopes to invest in at least 25 early-stage companies, writing check sizes between $1 million and $2.3 million, with 50% of the fund reserved for follow-on investments. Speaking to TechCrunch, Nasir Qadree, founder and managing partner of Zeal, said Fund II will focus on financial technology, healthca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 21:44:58
National Public Radio sued President Trump and his administration today over Trump's move to block funding for public broadcasting. NPR said Trump acted illegally, and that losing federal funding could force it to shut newsrooms and dramatically scale back news coverage. On May 1, Trump issued an executive order titled, "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media," in which he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and all US agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 01:21:29
New Zealand’s deep tech ambitions just got a $25 million boost. Outset Ventures, the Auckland-based venture firm and incubator that spun out unicorns like Rocket Lab and LanzaTech, has closed its second fund at an oversubscribed $41.5 million NZD. The fund’s mission is to back startups working on hard science and engineering breakthroughs – technologies its partners believe New Zealand is uniquely suited to lead. That includes everything from aerospace to medical technology, though Outset is e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 13:00:00
Did you get a random refund from Amazon recently? You aren't alone. Several customers have reported they received a variety of amounts of money from products they ordered months or even years ago, with one customer on LinkedIn saying he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought seven years ago. Others made similar comments about products bought long ago. According to Bloomberg, it all ties back to an internal review Amazon did, possibly in response to a 2023 lawsuit. That suit claimed A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 21:24:31
SimpleImages/Getty Images Did you return something to Amazon long ago and never see your refund? Your payday might be here. Some Amazon customers are getting surprise refunds for things they ordered as long as 8 years ago, and in some cases, it's more than $1,000. Here's what's going on and how you can tell if you've got money on the way. Also: Best Memorial Day deals 2025: Save on expert-picked tech When you return an item you purchased on Amazon, you usually have to send that item back. Mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 21:00:00
Amazon buyers are reporting an influx of unexpected refunds from products they ordered months or even years ago, with one customer on LinkedIn saying he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought seven years ago. Others made similar comments about products bought long ago. According to Bloomberg, the new refunds are because of changes Amazon made after an internal review. That review may be related to a 2023 consumer lawsuit by a group of Amazon shoppers who claimed that Amazon had rever
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 04:42:00
Amazon buyers are reporting an influx of unexpected refunds from products they ordered months or even years ago, with one customer on LinkedIn saying he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought seven years ago. According to Bloomberg, the new refunds are due to changes Amazon made after an internal review. That review may be related to a 2023 consumer lawsuit by a group of Amazon shoppers who claimed that Amazon had reversed their legitimate return-related refunds. A representative fo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 21:03:47
“We are where we are today because of speedrun. Speedrun’s involvement since leading our pre-seed round has been transformational for k-ID. They’ve been instrumental in securing top talent, including our CTO, connecting us with vital early design partners, and offering sharp strategic guidance on everything from pricing to fundraising—paving the way for our oversubscribed Series A.”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 00:42:00
Amazon buyers are reporting an influx of unexpected refunds from products they ordered months or even years ago, with one customer on LinkedIn saying he received a refund of $1,800 for a smart TV bought 7 years ago. According to Bloomberg, the new refunds are due to changes Amazon made after an internal review. That review may be related to a 2023 consumer lawsuit by a group of Amazon shoppers who claimed that Amazon had reversed their legitimate return-related refunds. A representative for Am
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 05:22:41
Amazon is sending refunds for product returns dating as far back as 2018. The company says these relate to historical cases where it had been unable to verify receipt of faulty products sent back by customers … If you receive a faulty product from Amazon, or even change your mind, you are entitled to send it back for a full refund. The ecommerce giant usually waits until it has received the return before issuing the refund. When a return is not received, there should be a follow-up process to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 12:14:59
is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Amazon is issuing refunds to customers who’d returned products but never received their money back, in some cases from as long ago as 2018. “Following a recent internal review, we identified a very small subset of returns where we issued a refund without the payment completing, or where we could not verify that the correct item had been sent back to us so no refund was issue
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:00:00
South Loop Ventures, a Houston-based venture firm, announced a $21 million Fund I, with Rice Management Company and Chevron Technology Ventures serving as anchor investors. The firm, which launched in 2022, focuses on seed and pre-seed companies, with $400,000 as the average check size. It also primarily hopes to focus on backing founders of color. Zach Ellis, the firm’s founder and managing director, spoke to TechCrunch about his final close. He said the fund is general and will invest in fo
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“I’ve got a pretty wild story to tell you,” the early YouTube star Caspar Lee says in a TikTok. He goes on to tell the story of how a startup founder slid into his LinkedIn DMs with a pitch about an eco-friendly deodorant called Wild. He ignored the message at first, but his cousin Sasha Kaletsky, then a Bridgepoint investor, asked Lee if he and some other creators wanted to get in on the seed round. This April, about five and a half years later, Wild sold to Unilever for £233 million, or aroun
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With the current economic uncertainties and geopolitical challenges, securing funding for startups in Asia has recently become more difficult. Venture capital firms have also been impacted by the downturn, leading to a decrease in the number of funds being closed. The VC market is “going through [one of its] cyclical winters marked by high interest rates, tightened liquidity, and cautious LP sentiment,” Akio Tanaka, a co-founder of and partner at Headline Asia, a Tokyo- and Taipei-based VC firm
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 05:00:36
As Doctor Who prepared to return for its latest season, rumors swirled that it would be a make-or-break moment for the show, as threats of Disney terminating its funding deal for the series and even outright cancellation loomed. But while we’re not quite at the point of finding out what Disney’s stake in Doctor Who‘s future might be, a new report suggests that the end is far from nigh for the Time Lord regardless. A new report from British tabloid The Daily Mirror suggests that, despite recent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 21:42:30
Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the size of its prior fund, which was raised just under three years ago. In a market where many venture firms are decreasing their capital hauls, this consistency could indicate the firm’s limited partners are relatively happy with its performance. The firm’s early-stage strategy is managed by four man
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 05:05:55
With the abrupt withdrawal of the US, the World Health Organization is grappling with a brutal funding shortfall, leaving the United Nations health agency to slash top leadership and run global programs on a budget similar to that of a local hospital system. In remarks at a budget committee meeting Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus laid out the daunting budget numbers and announced a slimmed structure, cutting senior management from 14 to seven and the number of departm
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Mobile game publisher Brightika announced that it’s planning to move into PC and console gaming, planning to invest $3 million in new titles. According to the company, it plans to support indie titles with a specific model that includes marketing and operations as well as “selective product support.” It plans to deploy the funding over the next 12-24 months. Brightika’s funding will go towards marketing, user acquisition, localization and community support, with other product support including
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 09:30:00
Work-Bench, whose portfolio includes unicorns Spring Health and Socure, just raised a $160 million Fund IV to quadruple down on backing companies in New York City. The firm announced the raise in a blog post on Monday, saying the latest fund will support seed-stage founders building enterprise software. Checks will range from $2 million to $4 million, and the team is looking specifically for companies building in AI, cybersecurity, developer tools, and enterprise applications. Jonathan Lehr, t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 21:28:03
A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing a DOGE-style overhaul of the agency's operations, including large cuts to the Universal Service Fund that subsidizes broadband deployment and access. FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington said the fund should reduce spending on fiber networks and give money to Starlink—helping Elon Musk, the man in charge of President Trump's DOGE initiative. Simington also argued that the FCC is using too many staff hours on reviewing licens
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 09:00:00
On Monday, Google announced the launch of its AI Futures Fund, a new initiative that seeks to invest in startups that are building with the latest AI tools from Google DeepMind, the company’s AI R&D lab. The fund will back startups from seed to late stage and will offer varying degrees of support, including allowing founders to have early access to Google AI models from DeepMind, the ability to work with Google experts from DeepMind and Google Labs, and Google Cloud credits. Some startups will
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 09:40:38
Mercury co-founder and CEO Immad Akhund today announced the launch of a $26 million fund to back early-stage startups, a move that formalizes his extensive history of angel investing. Axios first reported in February. Akhund has been an active angel investor since 2016, backing over 350 startups at their earliest stages. His portfolio includes companies such as Airtable, Applied Intuition, Decagon, Gecko Robotics, Linear and Substack, among others. “I love supporting entrepreneurs – whether it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:35:15
In another unhinged social media rant, President Donald Trump once again demonstrated that words really don’t mean anything anymore. This time, Trump directed his ire at a Biden-era program intended to bridge the digital divide. On Truth Social, Trump announced his intention to end the Digital Equity Act while labeling it as “racist” and “unconstitutional”. In 2021, former president Joe Biden passed the Digital Equity Act as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It provided $2.75
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:00:00
The game industry’s motto for all of last year was “survive til 2025.” And in some respects, that wasn’t just wishful thinking. As the industry trudged through 2024, market researcher DDM saw positive signs. And with one quarter of 2025 in the books, it certainly seems that things are trending in the right direction when it comes to game deals — investments or M&A. Q1 2025 not only marks the second consecutive quarter of growth, but it is the largest quarter since Q4 2023, with combined games
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Table of Contents States Sue the Government Over Withdrawn EV Charging Station Funds A group of 17 states led by California, Colorado and Washington are suing the government over billions of dollars in funds for EV charging stations. A lawsuit filed in a Seattle district court cites a 2021 bipartisan $5 billion infrastructure program that was meant to build out charging stations across the US. As recently as early February, that money was expected to continue to roll out to states to add stati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-16 16:14:47
Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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Like many leaders in tech, Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM, thinks federal R&D funding for AI and related technologies should be increased — not the other way around. “We have been an extremely strong advocate — and this is both the company and me personally — on that federally funded R&D should be increased,” Kirshna said in an interview with TechCrunch. “That’s the position, which is unequivocal, and we strongly believe in that.” President Donald Trump and his cabinet have sought to make deep
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