Driverless car start-up Wejo zooms to £10m funding

Driverless car start-up Wejo zooms to £10m funding from Government’s coronavirus fund and investors  Chester-based Wejo hopes to play a major role in autonomous cars   £10m funding among largest secured by a start-up through the Future Fund By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:30 BST, 1 August 2020 | Updated: 23:04 … Read more

Start-up billed as ‘Zoom for medics’ aims to raise £100m

British technology start-up billed as ‘Zoom for medics’ mulling a fundraising of up to £100m to help support growth in UK and overseas By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:46 BST, 11 July 2020 Signed up: ITV’s This Morning doctor Zoe Williams is an adviser to … Read more

Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a ‘copy cat’ after Amazon acquires a self-driving startup for $1billion

Elon Musk calls out Jeff Bezos for being a ‘copy cat’ on Twitter after Amazon acquires self-driving startup Zoox for $1billion The comment is in reference to Musk’s ventures with Tesla’s self-driving cars  Zoox, like Tesla, is focused on making self-driving cars and AI software  Musk’s critical tweet is the second public swipe at Bezos … Read more

Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a ‘copy cat’ after Amazon acquires a self-driving startup for $1billion

Elon Musk calls out Jeff Bezos for being a ‘copy cat’ on Twitter after Amazon acquires self-driving startup Zoox for $1billion The comment is in reference to Musk’s ventures with Tesla’s self-driving cars  Zoox, like Tesla, is focused on making self-driving cars and AI software  Musk’s critical tweet is the second public swipe at Bezos … Read more

Facial recognition startup captured data from 30,000 people at the Rose Bowl 

Facial recognition company collected data on 30,000 fans at the Rose Bowl game using video monitors to draw their attention and give the cameras an unobstructed view of their face A facial recognition company ran a test at the Rose Bowl game, capturing data on more than 30,000 fans who passed through the ‘Fan Fest’ … Read more

Tech startup will bring the hometown crowd cheer back to fan-free football stadiums

2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more

Google’s parent company funds start-up to ‘edit genes to protect against heart disease’

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is now pouring funds into a start-up wants to gene-edit heart disease out of existence using a one-time injection.  Verve Therapeutics hopes to leverage its CEO’s discovery of a gene he believes is linked to lower heart disease risks to ‘fix’ the DNA of people at high risk of heart disease.  … Read more

Australian startup testing new fertilizer made out of repurposed alkaline batteries

New fertilizer made out of repurposed alkaline batteries being tested by Australian startup to help keep some of the 158 million batteries sold each year out of the landfill An Australian company has announced new testing of a new kind of fertilizer It’s made with a mix of zinc and manganese powder sourced from old … Read more

Startup gets $20million funding to make lab-grown seafood as an alternative to commercial fishing

Lab-grown fish is real: San Diego start-up gets $20million in funding to develop yellowtail derived from muscle tissue cells taken from real fish BlueNalu is a San Diego startup that makes lab grown seafood The company says its products are ethical and sustainable alternatives to commercial fishing, and are made from real fish muscle tissue … Read more

Government launches start-up loan aid to help firms survive pandemic

Government launches start-up loan aid to help innovative businesses survive the pandemic By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:52 BST, 19 May 2020 | Updated: 22:52 BST, 19 May 2020 The latest Government aid scheme is launching today to help innovative and high-growth businesses survive the pandemic. The £500million Future Fund will open … Read more