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Demo day arrives for Springboard’s Internet of Things accelerator

The Next Web

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today.

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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

The latter has made investements such in Greece (Plum), Latvia (Printify), and Bulgaria (Cloudpipes). Pedro Santos Vieira Luckily, this is no ‘left field’ move for Vieira, who is no stranger to the region, having served as a mentor previously for 500 Global in that part of the world.

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement

Google Research AI blog

We also support Responsible AI projects directly for other organizations — including our commitment of $3M to fund the new INSAIT research center based in Bulgaria. This plot shows the cumulative engagement drops prevented using our restless multi-armed bandit model (RMAB) compared to the control group (Round Robin).