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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

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With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. Universities can get stuck into three-year funding cycles,” he told TechCrunch.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

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SMART’s co-founders, Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, are targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year. At the time, I was impressed by the idea and the van, which I drove with co-host Alex Roy around downtown Los Angeles.