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Siga secures $8.1M Series B to prevent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure

TechCrunch

These are typically made up of components and sensors that receive electrical signals, rather than protocols or data packets that can be manipulated by hackers. million investment lands three years after the startup secured $3.5 million in Series A funding. Researchers simulate a ransomware attack on industrial controls.

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HawkEye 360 raises $145M to scale space-based radio frequency data and analytics

TechCrunch

The round was led by Insight Partners and Seraphim Space Investment Trust, with additional funding from United Arab Emirates-based Strategic Development Fund. Investors agree, to the tune of $145 million in new funding as part of HawkEye’s Series D round.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Series B round

TechCrunch

Then orders are fulfilled through TaniSupply, the company’s logistics platform, which currently operates six warehousing and processing facilities where harvests can be washed, sorted and packed within an hour, before being delivered to buyers by TaniHub’s own couriers or third-party logistics providers.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

The innovations and technologies mentioned in the survey are: green energy, such as biofuels, liquid hydrogen, and wind and solar power; artificial intelligence, including machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI; gene-based medicine, such as mRNA vaccines, gene splicing, and gene therapy; and genetically modified foods.

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Anonymous Camera is a new app that uses AI to quickly anonymize photos and videos

The Verge

Perhaps most importantly, Anonymous Camera processes content in real time on users’ devices, something that wasn’t possible before recent advances in AI. The app includes information about how it processes data, and the limits of its anonymity features. Anonymous Camera removes the need for this entire post-production process.

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DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive

TechCrunch

The company’s AI is trained on data from the internet, but the algorithm is fine-tuned to recall specific use cases to make sure that its responses are accurate and not too thrown off by online chaos. Image Credits: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch. “We train it on everything, but the actual use cases are called within silos.