FinTech Startup Highnote Nets $54M in Funding
Highnote, the all-in-one platform for creating payment cards and embedded FinTech experiences to help small and medium-sized businesses grow, on Tuesday (Sept. 28) announced it has raised a combined $54 million from a Seed and Series A round. Oak HC/FT…
Amazon Echo Show 15 Is The Smart Home Gadget I’ve Been Waiting For
The Amazon Echo Show is one of the better smart displays available today. With Echo Show 15, Amazon’s making it bigger than ever before. Amazon just announced the Echo Show 15 as its latest Alexa-powered smart display, and it could very well be the…
Tissue-engineered prostate tumours shed light on cancer spread
Fig. 1: Schematic of experimental design. a Overview of the experimental timeline for the study. The human tissue-engineered bone construct (hTEBC) was created by seeding human osteoblasts (hOBs) onto quadratic calcium phosphate-coated melt…
Amazon unveils $999 Astro ‘Alexa’ ROBOT and flying security drone for your home
AMAZON has unveiled a host of new Alexa gadgets – including a ROBOT, a flying home security drone, $60 smart thermostat and a giant Echo Show screen. Many of the new gadgets are here just in time for Christmas – including the $999 Astro robot. 6 Astro is…
Side effects after booster dose similar to shot two: US study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most side effects after a third dose of a COVID vaccine are mild or moderate, and occur at about as often as after shot two, a US study showed Tuesday in a finding that was expected but nonetheless reassuring. The report…
Democrats are about to ruin their plan for electric cars
An electric car. Illustrated | iStock As Democrats frantically negotiate the shape of their social spending package with multiple deadlines and economic mayhem looming, they are reportedly considering “means-testing” some of their new…
GM startup BrightDrop to make new EV service van for Verizon
General Motors’ all-electric commercial delivery startup, BrightDrop, will make a new commercial van for its next new customer: Verizon. On Tuesday, BrightDrop unveiled the EV410, a mid-size electric commercial van designed for smaller, more…
Rivian R1T reviewed, Ford’s $11.4B EV investment, Atlis prototype Today’s Car News
In a first drive review of the 2022 Rivian R1T electric truck, we found it to be one of the most versatile vehicles ever tested. It’s a harbinger of what’s to come with a new era of fully electric pickups and SUVs—although it’s also a reminder that tall,…
Remember Atlis? Startup debuts prototype XT electric pickup truck
Atlis It’s been nearly four years since Atlis announced its presence with the intention to build a burly, electric pickup truck. Since then, a lot has changed and new potential rivals emerged. But, Atlis remains and it returned on Monday to show…
The Electric Pickup Revolution Is Real, and It’s Here
“Disrupting” the auto industry isn’t as simple as throwing money at whimsies–it requires overcoming a missing century of institutional knowledge. Rivian, an electric truck startup backed by billions from Amazon and Ford, looks…