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Rocket Lab doubles down on marine booster recovery with next Electron launch Jun 28, 2023

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Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission will include another marine recovery attempt of the rocket’s booster, the latest step by the company to advance its reusability program.

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CalypsoAI raises $23M to add guardrails to generative AI models Jun 28, 2023

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Companies are increasingly embracing generative AI.

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Redpanda nabs $100M Series C as streaming service experiences significant growth Jun 27, 2023

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Redpanda helps companies capture data in real time in a modern context, providing a new way to stream data while maintaining backwards compatibility with Kafka, the popular open source streaming project.

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Aston Martin taps Lucid to help develop electric vehicles Jun 27, 2023

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Lucid Group, the U.S. automaker that produces the luxury all-electric Air sedan, will supply Aston Martin with powertrain components for future electric vehicle models, the companies said Monday.

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UTU raises $35M to help travelers get more from tax-free shopping Jun 26, 2023

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Utu, a travel tech company that helps flyers get more out of their tax-free shopping, announced today it has raised a $35 million Series B led by SC Ventures.

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SoulCycle to offer trainer-guided virtual work sessions with the FLOWN startup Jun 22, 2023

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FLOWN is a startup that took the idea of the sort of ‘virtual co-working’ some of us during the pandemic just have some company during lockdowns, and created a model of guided “deep work” sessions with actual coaches.

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Apple’s Vision Pro SDK is now available, in-person developer labs launch next month Jun 22, 2023

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Time to get a jump on all of that spatial computing. Apple today announced that its visionOS software development kit is now available, allowing 3D parties to begin building content for the Vision Pro.

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Roblox invites its community to build mature experiences for 17+ users Jun 21, 2023

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Roblox is well aware that its young users are getting older, and the company is making every effort to grow up along with them. The platform, once synonymous with younger kids, announced Tuesday that it would allow creators to build mature content designed for users age 17 and up.

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Twitch will require new labels for streams with sexual themes, gambling and M-rated games Jun 21, 2023

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Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels. The company announced Tuesday that it would introduce a new set of content labels that require streamers to signal when their channels will contain sexual themes, graphic violence, “drugs, intoxication, or excessive tobacco use.

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Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’ Jun 20, 2023

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European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and non-commercially — in the region, and today the EU’s largest consumer group, the BEUC, weighed in with its own position: stop dragging your feet, and “launch urgent investigations into the risks of generative AI” now, it said.

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