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Startup founded by ‘Survivor’ champ debuts airless bike tires based on NASA rover tech

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SMART, which is co-founded by “Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, worked with Padula and Creager, along with former NASA intern Calvin Young, to apply the benefits of SMA to the consumer market. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies.

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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. The mystery of Oceankind’s money. Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji.

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This startup is betting that you want to binge remote-work content

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The job board has more than 217,000 listings with jobs across the spectrum, from tech to blue-collar industries. Instead, wrkfrce makes money through affiliate links on its job board, advertising remote-work tools and consultancy fees it charges companies that ask for advice on how to scale a remote team. Image Credits: Jesse Chambers.

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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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Next week, Extra Crunch will feature stories on the state of holographic tech in vehicles, the second-life battery marketplace and software plays in the micromobility industry. This nifty tech that shows how NASA investments towards space exploration can end up improving life on Earth.