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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just got back from a terrific week in Austria at the International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs conference. I got into a spirited debate with a Norwegian researcher about a paper entitled something like "Is DAISY Universally Designed?" Her conclusion was no, and her research was well done.

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Physicists Find That the Universe Could "Collapse Like a House of Cards"

Futurism

With that in mind, have you considered that our entire universe may actually be suspended in a "false vacuum," or in a state of faux-stability, and is merely waiting to collapse into a more stable state? The quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our mundane, ordered view of reality. The takeaway?

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Planted raises another $21M to expand its growing plant-based meat empire (and add schnitzel)

TechCrunch

Planted appeared in 2019 as a spinoff from Swiss research university ETH Zurich, where the founders developed the original technique of extruding plant proteins and water into fibrous structures similar to real meat’s. Jenny noted that Planted’s schnitzel is produced as one piece, not pressed together from smaller bits.

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European VC firms Amadeus and Apex partner for €80m early-stage ‘deep tech’ fund

TechCrunch

based Amadeus Capital Partners and Austria’s Apex Ventures are pooling their collective venture capital (VC) resources for a new fund specifically targeted at early-stage deep tech startups. “The partnership also allows for early-stage investments in other European markets outside the U.K., ” Founded in 1997, Cambridge, U.K.-based

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. We are also interested in Germany and Austria as well as the Nordics. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company.

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Learning from deep learning: a case study of feature discovery and validation in pathology

Google Research AI blog

Today, we’d like to share progress we’ve made over the past few years towards identifying novel features for colorectal cancer in collaboration with teams at the Medical University of Graz in Austria and the University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) in Italy.

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Czech on-demand grocery delivery startup Rohlik bags $230M to expand across Europe

TechCrunch

It plans to use the funding to expand its footprint across metropolitan areas in its existing three markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria — as well as to break into Germany, Poland, Romania and other countries in the near future. The macro trend is universal offline to online migration through a better business model.

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