Month: June 2021
Relativity Space will open a 1 million square foot factory to scale Terran R production
Fresh off the heels of a $650 million Series E funding round, 3D printed rocket startup Relativity Space is now preparing to increase production capacity by a factor of ten, with the opening of a 1 million square-foot factory headquarters
Read MoreHRC Files Lawsuit Challenging Florida’s Transgender Sports Ban—and Announces More To Come
LGBTQ civil rights group The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced on Wednesday that it has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging Florida’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on June 1 banning transgender
Read MoreHong Kong Democracy Supporters Lead Last Resistance: Shop From Like-Minded Businesses
A network of vendors and consumers aims to keep a grass-roots movement alive a year after China’s national-security law outlawed political dissent.
Read MoreKim berates North Korean officials for ‘crucial’ virus lapse
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated top officials for failures in coronavirus prevention that caused a “great crisis,” using strong language that raised the specter of a mass outbreak in a country that would be scarcely able to handle
Read MoreFloLive, an IoT startup building cloud-based private 5G networks, raises $15.5M led by Intel
As enterprises and carriers gear up for operating and scaling IoT services and monitoring the activity of their devices, machines and more globally, a startup that is building technology to make this easier and cheaper to implement is announcing some
Read MoreUK tells messaging apps not to use e2e encryption for kids’ accounts
For a glimpse of the security and privacy dystopia the UK government has in store for its highly regulated ‘British Internet’, look no further than guidance put out by the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) yesterday —
Read MoreDevice42 introduces multi-cloud migration analysis and recommendation tool
In 2020 lots of workloads shifted to the cloud due to the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean that figuring out how to migrate those workloads got any easier. Device42, a startup that helps companies understand their infrastructure, has a new
Read MorePA said to ask Israel to allow in riot gear amid protests over activist’s death
Demonstrations have diminished over the past two days, but Ramallah said to be worried about resurgence; Israel has previously approved the transfer of riot control means to the PA
Read MoreKikoff raises $30M for its hybrid consumer-credit and financial-literacy service
Kikoff, a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round. The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed
Read MoreFightCamp punches its way to a $90M round
FightCamp, an interactive at-home training system for boxing/kickboxing, is announcing this morning that it has raised a $90M round from a long list of investors, including quite the roster of famous fighters. FightCamp pairs smart sensors (“punch trackers” worn under
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